KATHMANDU: The Chief Election Commissioner Ayodhee Prasad Yadav on Sunday said that the election of the House of Representatives and provincial assembly was not possible to conduct on the same day due to constitutional and managerial reasons.

In a meeting with the Good Governance and Monitoring Committee of the Legislature-Parliament today, CEC Yadav said that women representation as contemplated by the constitution would become difficult if both the elections were held together.

"If the elections are to be held together then 70 million sets of ballot papers will have to be printed. How will it be possible with the current structure," CEC Yadav was quoted in the Rastriya Samachar Samiti as saying.

Similarly, management of the election process including production, transportation of election-related materials, voter education, human resource, voter's roll collection and of the polling centres would make it impossible to hold the elections together, he added.

Yadav further explained that the printing of the ballot papers after distribution of election symbol was almost impossible.