In Nepal, barring some minor incidents of violance, voting ended on Sunday. According to media reports, one person died of bullet injuries after police opened fire at an unruly crowd at Damtha polling station in Triveni Municipality in Bajura. Police fired to control the situation following a clash killed 25-year-old Sanjeev Aidee. According to The Kathmandu Post report, the ballot box of proportional ballots under the provincial poll caught fire in Swamikartik Rural Municipality polling station. Voting was suspended for the time being.
Meanwhile, the voters’ turnout remained around 60 per cent as per the preliminary report of the Election Commission (EC). The voting that started from 7 am to 5 pm for the elections to the House of Representatives (HoR) and provincial assembly are over and the details of the turnout continue to arrive, the EC said. Voting was peaceful. Voting process was obstructed in some districts such as Bajura, Surkhet, Taplejung, Nawalparasi (Susta Purba), Gulmi and Dolakha after disputes between the political parties and the candidate hopefuls ensued, the EC stated.
Foreign election observers have supervised the polling centers of Kathmandu, Lalitpur and Bhaktapur. Forty-six organizations were assigned to supervise the House of Representatives (HoR) and provincial assemblies’ elections, in which a team including officials from the election commissions of India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, the Maldives, Sri Lanka, and South Korea supervised the election. A delegation from India including the Chief Election Commissioner of India, Rajiv Kumar, supervised the elections in Nepal. After voting, ballot boxes are being transferred to counting centers. Counting of votes in 10 constituencies of Kathmandu district will be done at 10 different places,
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