MORANG, April 13: Chief Election Commissioner Dinesh Kumar Thapaliya said that the May 13 local election would be held on the stipulated date.
At a provincial level media orientation program jointly organized by the Election Commission of Nepal, the Press Council Nepal and the Federation of Nepali Journalists in Biratnagar on Tuesday, the Chief Election Commissioner assured that the upcoming election would be held in a clean, fair, credible and fearless environment.
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Stating that the major function of the periodic election was to strengthen federalism and democracy, Thapaliya argued that if there were no election, the democracy would lose.
Furthermore, Chief Commissioner Thapaliya reaffirmed the Commission's commitment to devise a monitoring mechanism to curb misinformation, disinformation, propaganda and hate speech among others which, he added, would defeat politics of integrity.
(RSS)
