ITAHARI, Nov 29: The political parties that participated in the November 20 elections have agreed to resume the counting of votes of the House of Representatives election after three days in Sunsari-4.
The counting of votes was stopped due to a controversy on Saturday afternoon after the Congress accused that 606 more votes were added to the votes of UML candidate Jagdish Prasad Kusiyat in the election results. On Monday evening, the Election Commission sent a letter to resume the stalled vote counting, and it was agreed that the all-party meeting would be held on Tuesday morning and the counting would resume. Now, after watching the CCTV footage of the suspected place, the counting is about to resume.
Parties 'agree' for vote counting right after phase I polls
Karki, who is also the Minister for Communications and Information Technology, filed a complaint with the Election Commission on Sunday, demanding a recount after the counting of votes became suspicious.
Karki had secured 23,439 votes before the counting was stopped. UML's Jagdish Kusiyat got 23,341 votes. Khadananda Mandal of Nepali Congress led in province no 4 (A) and Haji Dr. Israil Ansari of Congress led in 4 (B).
