Kathmandu, July 17

The CPN-UML today asked the Election Commission to make necessary arrangements to update voters’ list from all nearby election offices throughout the country.

A UML delegation led by deputy parliamentary party leader Subas Chandra Nembang met EC officials including CEC Yadav and asked them not to bar voters from exercising their voting rights by putting difficult conditions.

The principal opposition party said that a lot of voters would be deprived of their voting rights, if the election body did not change its decision to register voters’ name only from their home districts.

The UML had also demanded that the confusion regarding formation of district coordination committee in the districts, where local level polls were held in the first and second phase be resolved.

The UML also asked the EC to maintain continuous pressure on the government regarding delay of formation of the Constituency Delimitation Commission.

The NC and CPN-MC too sent separate delegations to the EC and demanded that people should not be punished with its difficult conditions.

They said that the EC had decided to collect and update voters’ names, which also contained photos of the

voters from July 16 to July 30 from the district election offices and asked all voters to update their names from their respective district election offices.