Chitwan, Nepal: Vote-counting that was halted since Friday night following row over vote-counting of Ward-9, to be resumed in Bharatpur Metropolitan City, thanks to the agreement among the parties to this effect.
The vote counting was halted after Nepali Congress and CPN Maoist Center had left the vote counting venue demanding recount after an inconsistency was found between the number of votes cast shown in the computer database and the number of votes cast mentioned in the record kept by representatives of political parties .
The vote counting in Bharatpur Metropolitan City has cautiously been watching as Prime Minister and CPN Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s daughter Renu Dahal is contesting in the post of Mayor from the support of the Nepali Congress.
Likewise, there is also a rumor that CPN UML’s leaders have agreed to accept Dahal as the winner of the Mayor even though the UML’s Mayoral candidate Devi Gyanwali is leading in the vote counting.
The all party meeting held on Saturday morning made a 10 points agreement including to mention transparency while counting the vote. The decision has also left a space to suspect that soothing would have cooked between the leadership between the UML and the Maoist Center.
