Kathmandu, Feb 4: The Election Commission (EC) has issued the bank accounts operation and management work procedure, 2082, urging the political parties and candidates participating in the upcoming March 5 House of Representatives (HoR) elections to make expenses for electoral poll publicity through bank accounts.
In a statement today, EC spokesperson Narayan Prasad Bhattarai called for the parties and candidates to make income and expenditure for election publicity by opening and operating bank accounts as per the procedure approved by the EC’s meeting on Tuesday.
The work procedure has been uploaded in the official website of the commission, it is informed. Necessary directive to this effect has been issued to the licensed banks and financial institutions with A, B and C categories, the statement reads.
The EC has drawn attention of the political parties and candidates to operate election publicity bank accounts as per the Clause 50 of the Election Commission Act, 2073 to ensure routing publicity expenses to the banking system.
