HoR Elections 77 days to go: Civic Education Promotion Resource Booklet released

Kathmandu, Dec 18: The Election Commission has made public the ‘Civic Education Promotion Resource Booklet for Election Programs’.

The Election Education Resource Booklet, 2082, for social studies teachers has been prepared by the Commission under the theme ‘Election Education and Information Expansion as Infrastructure for Free and Fair Elections’ and made public through its website. The resource material includes various topics in seven chapters.

Chapter one covers democracy and the constitution, chapter two covers election and political party related provisions, chapter three covers electoral system, various levels of elections and inclusiveness, and chapter four covers the election cycle and processes (voting process, NOTA, counting, etc.).

Similarly, Chapter Five discusses the election management bodies and related laws, Chapter Six discusses compliance with the election code of conduct, monitoring and supervision, and Chapter Seven discusses election stakeholders, duties and rights of citizens, and the role of teachers in the election process, as well as visits to the Election Education and Information Center.

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06-       Call for winter session of Bagmati provincial assembly

Opposition parties in the Bagmati provincial assembly have demanded convening of the winter session of the provincial assembly.

The CPN (Maoist Center), the CPN (Unified Socialist) and the Hamro Nepali Party submitted a memorandum to Chief Minister Indra Bahadur Baniya on Wednesday, demanding the winter session. The opposition parties have also accused the government of not being accountable to the parliament and of trying to evade the parliament for a long time.

In the memo, the opposition have also pointed out that government should not close the provincial assembly, a space where people’s voices are heard, for a long time. The memorandum has been signed by the leader of the parliamentary party of the main opposition party in the provincial assembly, the Maoist Center, Shalikram Jamkattel,  Basanta Manandhar of the CPN-US, and Shailendraman Bajracharya, the leader of the parliamentary party of the Hamro Nepali Party.

The parties allege that the Provincial Assembly itself has been held hostage to indecision at a time when the country is in crisis after the ‘Genji Rebellion’ and even the federal parliament has been dissolved.

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