INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
This constituency ended up being vacant after the Supreme Court revoked Rastriya Swatantra Party Chair Rabi Lamichhanes election to your
house of Representatives.
KATHMANDU, FEBRUARY 12The Election Commission has actually revealed byelection in Chitwan-2 parliamentary
constituency on April 23.
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This constituency ended up being vacant after the Supreme Court invalidated Rastriya Swatantra Party Chair Rabi Lamichhanes
election to your house of Representatives.
The constitutional bench of the pinnacle court annulled Lamichhanes election to the HoR on
January 28, ruling that considering that he did not satisfy legal treatments to get his Nepali citizenship restored, he was not qualified to
contest parliamentary election, which he did from Chitwans Constituency No 2
The Election Commission provided a press release announcing byelection in Chitwan-2 according to Article 84 (7) and Section 68 of House of
Representatives Election Act
Article 84 (7) states that in case the seat of any member of the House of Representatives falls uninhabited while its term still remains for
more than 6 months, the job shall be fulfilled in the very same way of electoral system in which the seat was filled
Comparable arrangements are consisted of in Section 68 of House of Representatives Elections Act.A couple of days earlier, Umesh Shrestha
who had ended up second in Chitwan-2 parliamentary election, had actually submitted a petition at the EC requiring that he be declared
winner considering that Lamichhanes election to HoR was invalidated by the court.Spokesperson for the EC Shaligram Sharma Paudel said that
the EC chose it would not need to do anything on Shresthas petition as the polls panel had chosen to hold byelection in Chitwan-2
constituency.RSP had been stating that the EC should hold byelection in Chitwan-2
RSP Chair Lamichhane who lost his house portfolio in the Pushpa Kamal Dahal-led government due to a court decision desired the portfolio for
his own celebration, however the PM did not appoint the portfolio to his party saying that Lamichhane was being examined for supposedly
holding 2 passports - Nepali and American - at the same time.Media outlets have said that if RSP was permitted to hold home portfolio, it
would create a case of dispute of interest as Lamichhane was being examined in the passport case
Lamichhane is anticipated to contest from Chitwan constituency where he secured triumph in the last basic election with a substantial
margin.As per the election calendar backed today, the surveys panel will update citizen list for the constituency between February 12 to
Candidates wanting to object to election from this constituency will need to submit their election papers on April 3
The next day, people can file problems against candidates
On April 5, the EC will publish the last name list of the candidates.The next day, the EC will allocate election symbols to the
candidates.In the parliamentary elections hung on November 20, Lamichhane won HoR election from Chitwan-2 with 49,261 votes
He secured 34,170 more votes than his closest competing Nepali Congress Umesh Shrestha who gathered 15,099 votes.A version of this post
appears in the print on February 13, 2023, of The Himalayan Times
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