2022-10-31
Bagmati, Sindhupalchok, Indrawati, Ward 8
Pralhad Chaulagain, a central member of YCL, the youth wing of CPN Maoist Center, resident of Indrawati Rural Municipality-8 in Sindhupanchok, has threatened to kill those who speak against the Left-Democratic Electoral Alliance On October 30 by posting a message on the wall of his Facebook profile. Chaulagain's message was supposedly directed towards cadres of CPN-UML. In the message he blamed UML cadres of attempting to create chaos by circulating an old video.
The Civil Election Commission has said that issuing death threats through social media is a violation of the Election Code of Conduct. The election code of conduct also prohibits sharing misleading, false, and malicious information on social media with the purpose of influencing the election.
Violent / Non-violent | Nonviolent |
Primary Form | Threat/intimidation |
Primary Cause | Election-related incident |
Actor 1 - Number of people | N |
Actor 1 - Affiliations | CPN (Maoist Center) and affiliated org |
Actor 1 - Youth | na |
Actor 2 - Number of people | N |
Actor 2 - Affiliation (Target) | UML and affiliated org |
Actor 2 - Youth | na |