KATHMANDU, April 13: Nepali Congress leader Dr Arju Rana Deuba has urged the Election Commission (EC) to manage electoral quotas for women on the basis of proportional inclusion.
Stating that the EC does not have any authority to breach Article 38 (4) of the constitution, she urged the pool body to correct its decision on the subject of electoral candidacy for the poll.
Education, not quotas
For the upcoming local election, the EC has provisioned that political parties should prioritize women's representation in any one position of chief and deputy chief or chair and vice-chair at the local level while nominating election candidates. But this provision goes against Article 38 (4) of the constitution that guarantees women's right to participate in all bodies of the state on the basis of proportional inclusion, she argued while taking to a social site. So, she appealed to the EC to make corrections in the election directives it has issued recently for the election.
(RSS)
