Incident Reports

Election office in Kathmandu picketed demanding investigation into registration of fake voters

2022-08-01

Bagmati, Kathmandu, Budhanilakantha

Nepali Congress leaders and cadres from Kathmandu Election Constituency area 4 picketed the Kathmandu District Election Office citing that thousands of people from all across the country were registering as voters in Budhanilkantha Municipality by forging migration document.

According to Shyam Sangat, Kathmandu Constituency Area 4 president of Nepali Congress, they had already come across 13 such documents of fake voters and suspected that there were thousands of such cases. Nepali Congress has demanded the local police, election commission, and Kathmandu district administration to investigate the matter seriously.

Details and Impacts
Violent / Non-violent Nonviolent
Primary Form Demonstration
Primary Cause Election-related incident
Actor 1 - Number of people N
Actor 1 - Affiliations Nepali Congress and affiliated org
Actor 1 - Youth na
Actor 2 - Number of people N
Actor 2 - Affiliation (Target) Other state institutions
Actor 2 - Youth na
National/Online Media

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