Incident Reports

Loktantra: Vote counting halted in Bharatpur as political parties picket counting station

2017-05-19

Bagmati, Chitawan, Bharatpur

Vote counting in Bharatpur NP ward number 9 has been halted due to picketing by dissatisfied group of CPN-MC and Nepali Congress claiming that vote counts differed between manual and computer generated results. They accused the Election Commission of making mistakes in counting votes. Representatives of CPN-MC and Nepali Congress demanded recounting the votes of Bharatpur ward number 9 when the news of CPN-UML panel winning the election was made public. Consequently, CPN-MC and NC started picketing against due to which vote count was halted on May 19. According to report,the parties also engaged in fierce arguments. भरतपुर महानगरपालिकामा मत गणना स्थगित गरिएको छ । दलका प्रतिनिधिहरुको मत संख्या र कम्पुटरबाट प्रकाशित मत संख्यामा पटक पटक फरक आएको भन्दै मत गणना कार्य स्थगित गरिएको कांग्रेस तथा माओवादीका प्रतिनिधिहरुले बताएका छन् । निर्वाचन आयोगले मत जोड्दा त्रुटी गरेको भन्दै माओवादी र कांग्रेसले विरोध जनाएपछि मतगणना स्थगित भएको हो । भरतपुर महानगरपालिका वडा नम्बर ९ एमालेका यमलाल कँडेल प्यानल सहित विजयी भएको समाचार बाहिर आएपनि नेपाली कांग्रेस र नेकपा माओवादी केन्द्रले भरतपुर महानगरपालिका वडा नम्बर ९ को मत गणना पुन गर्नुपर्ने बताएपछी शुक्रबार साँझ मत गणना स्थगित गरिएको हो। यसै विषयमा एमाले सहितका दलका नेताहरुले त्यो कुरालाई नमाने पछि चर्काचर्की भएको थियो।
Details and Impacts
Violent / Non-violent Nonviolent
Onesided / Twosided Onesided
Collective / Interpersonal Collective
Primary Form Demonstration
Primary Cause Election-related incident
Actor 1 - Number of people 50
Actor 1 - Affiliations Other/multiple/unspecified political affiliation
Actor 1 - Youth unknown
Actor 2 - Number of people NA
Actor 2 - Affiliation (Target) Other state institutions
Actor 2 - Youth na
Election-related cause primary
Local Newspaper - Chitwan

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