GALESHWOR, May 7: With just seven days to go for the local level elections, candidates and political parties in Myagdi are reaching out to the voters to solicit their voters while also teaching them how to vote.
As the Election Commission failed to conduct a voter education program, the candidates and their parties have started going to the doorsteps of the voters seeking their votes and also doing voter education simultaneously.
Candidates, leaders and activists are going door to door to teach the voters how to vote. Nepali Congress candidate for the post of Mayor of Beni Municipality Chiranjeevi Poudel and Deputy Mayor Candidate Jyoti Lamichhane of CPN (Maoist Center) on Friday campaigned with voters of Thamdanda, Surkemela and Bagarphant of Beni Municipality-4. In Beni Municipality, there is a two-party alliance between the Congress and the Maoist Center.
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Padampani Sharma, 70, of Beni Municipality-2 said a voter education program is needed as it is a bit difficult this time even though we have voted many times before. As a result, the candidates and leaders have come to teach the locals how to vote.
Likewise, Shri Prasad Roka, who has become the candidate for the post of chair of Malika Rural Municipality from the Nepali Congress was also found educating the voters during the campaigning. Roka said that it was his responsibility not only to ask the voters for votes but also to inform them about the right way of voting.
According to NC Myagdi Vice President KB Bhandari, the party has mobilized leaders and cadres including candidates for voter education. Thamsara Pun, who has become the UML's candidate for the post of Chair of Dhawalagiri Rural Municipality, is also teaching her voters how to vote.
She said the voters were made aware of the way of voting in the door to door campaign to prevent invalid votes. Leaders and cadres including candidates are teaching voters how to vote with the help of sample ballot papers.
