KATHMANDU, AUGUST 12
Janamat Party has started calling for people's mandate for its people's representatives at the local levels.
The party has urged its members who are in the voters' list at the local level to vote with the party's ID card for evaluating their representatives.
This initiative of Janamat party has been taken as an internal practice of 'Right to recall'. Spokesperson of the party, Sharad Singh Yadav, said a process to vote in the party has been adopted to evaluate issues that include how much work has been done after the election of party leaders at local levels, whether citizens are satisfied with their work and their behaviour.
He mentioned, "There will be voting on the issues of activities carried out by people's representatives of the party. Voting will determine whom the citizens like."
Right to recall means to call back people's representative. Such provision is not in our constitution. The constitution has not given the right to make such provision even after amending laws. So, those who get poor result in the voting will be given chance to improve or even get expelled from the party, Yadav reminded.
Moreover, Yadav claimed that Janamat Party woul be the first party implementing such practice in Nepal. All active members of the party, who took membership of the party till May 13, could cast their vote.
A total of 97 people's representatives were elected from the party in the local level election.
A version of this article appears in the print on August 13, 2023, of The Himalayan Times.
