By Muna Chand
Kathmandu, 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.
Stating that the major function of the periodic election was to strengthen federalism and
democracy, Thapaliya argued that if there were no elections, 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.
