DADELDHURA, Nov 20: Amid ongoing attacks on election candidates of various parties, Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has assured that security would be tightened to conclude the upcoming parliamentary and provincial elections in a peaceful manner.
"Security personnel would be deployed to protect poll candidates," Deuba told reporters, addressing a press conference organized by the Press Union in Dadeldhura on Sunday. "I will immediately begin work to tighten the security after returning to Kathmandu on Monday."
He added that those who organized attacks on poll candidates or made attempts to attack have been arrested. "So far, we have not heard anyone other than the Biplav-led CPN to have organized terrorist activities. There should be no doubts that the elections would be successfully organized in a peaceful manner."
Deuba further went on to claim that the next government too would be formed under the leadership of his party Nepali Congress (NC). He also took credit for many of the developmental works being carried out over the past few decades and promised economic prosperity in the coming days.
NC senior leader Ram Chandra Paudel and Ram Sharan Mahat; CPN (Maoist Center) leaders Barshaman Pun, Krishna Bahadur Mahara, Onsari Gharti Magar, and Janardan Sharma; and CPN-UML leader Sherdhan Rai among others have been targeted in a series of violent attacks on election candidates.
The parliamentary and provincial elections are being held simultaneously in two phases on November 26 and December 7. The first phase of the elections is just six days away.