{"id":42855,"date":"2026-02-23T07:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T01:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=42855"},"modified":"2026-02-23T07:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T01:33:08","slug":"local-peoples-representatives-urged-not-to-involve-in-election-publicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/local-peoples-representatives-urged-not-to-involve-in-election-publicity\/","title":{"rendered":"Local people&#8217;s representatives urged not to involve in election publicity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, Feb 23: The Election Commission (EC) has urged the people&#8217;s representatives of the local level not to involve in the election publicity campaigns.<br \/>\nIn order to keep the free, fair, impartial, transparent, fearless and economized environment for the upcoming March 5 House of Representatives (HoR) elections, the EC has made the plea to the locally-elected representatives.<\/p>\n<p>Citing reference of the implementation of the Election Code of Conduct, 2082 BS, the EC has reminded the responsibility of the concerned stakeholders to strictly comply with the code.<\/p>\n<p>According to the EC, it has been monitoring whether or not the political parties, candidates and concerned are fully complying with the election code of conduct.<br \/>\nThe commission has expressed serious concern over complaints and grievances received that some local representatives participated in the promotion of political parties and candidates contrary to the election code.<\/p>\n<p>According to the code related provisions, local executive office-bearers may participate in election campaigns of their respective political parties in local levels other than the one they were elected, yet there is a clear provision that they cannot use government resources and facilities.<\/p>\n<p>The EC has cautioned the local people&#8217;s representatives not to engage in poll publicity campaign in a way to contravene the existing code.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Feb 23: The Election Commission (EC) has urged the people&#8217;s representatives of the local level not to involve in the election publicity campaigns. In order to keep the free, fair, impartial, transparent, fearless and economized environment for the upcoming March 5 House of Representatives (HoR) elections, the EC has made the plea to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-national","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42855"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42857,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42855\/revisions\/42857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}