The Election Commission (EC) has scrapped the registration of 15 various political parties, including the party of Minister for Sanitation and Drinking Water Prem Bahadur Singh, for failing for three consecutive years to furnish reports on their incomes and expenditures. The EC has stated that it has decided to scrap the registrations of 15 political parties, including Minister Singh's Samajwadi Janata Party, for failing to submit details of their annual incomes and expenditures for three consecutive years, despite deadlines being provided several times for doing so. As per existing law, political parties need to submit their income and expenditure statements to the EC within six months of the expiry of a given fiscal year. Any party failing to submit such statements for three consecutive years will have its registration annulled.

Along with Samajwadi Janata Party, the EC has scrapped the registration of Janata Dal (United), Janata Party Nepal, Nepali Janata Party, Nepali Janabhawana Party, Sashakti Nepal, Nepal Rastriya Loktantrik Party, Nepal Rastriya Janakalyan Party, Janamukti Party Nepal, Shiva Sena, Liberal Samajwadi Party, Nepal Samyabadi Party, Nawa Nepal Prajatantrik Party, Shanghiya Loktantrik Rastriya Party and Samajbadi Party. "In January 2015, we had asked the political parties failing to furnish their annual financial statements for three fiscal years to immediately furnish those statements. After our request went unheeded, we again published a notice on September 11, 2015, giving the parties a three-month deadline to furnish the financial particulars along with clarifications for the delay," said Basu Dev Guragain, spokesperson of the EC. He said the registration of the political parties was annulled as a last resort. EC Commissioner Ila Sharma said that the EC will write to the Parliament Secretariat about the EC action against the 15 political parties, including Minister Singh's party. According to the EC, the names, election symbols, and flags of the scrapped political parties will be frozen for a year so that no other party can use them, and the public will be notified about this through the Nepal Gazette.

Similarly, 120 other political parties, including those of Deputy Prime Minster CP Mainali (CPN-ML), Minister for Science and Technology Bishwendra Paswan (Bahujan Shakti Party), and State Minister for Industry Megraj Nepali (Madhes Samata Party Nepal) have been fined Rs 100 each for failing to furnish to the EC their annual financial particulars and failing to submit clarifications for the delay. The list also includes political parties represented in parliament. Terai Madhes Sadhwana Party, Khambuwan Rashtriya Morcha Nepal, Akhanda Nepal Party, and Nepa Rashtriya Party, which are represented in parliament, have been fined Rs 100 each for flouting election law.