Sitting people's representatives of local levels should resign before filing candidacy, SC upholds EC code

By TRN Online, Kathmandu, Apr. 19: Sitting people's representatives at the local levels can file their candidacy for the upcoming local polls only after they resign from their posts.

A joint bench of the Supreme Court (SC) justices Tej Bahadur KC and Tilak Prasad Shrestha issued a verdict to this effect scrapping a case filed at the SC against the election code of conduct.

Nima Gyaljen Sherpa, Chairman of Helambu Rural Municipality, had on March 21 filed a writ petition at the SC demanding that the election code of conduct that requires people's representative to resign before filing candidacy be nullified.

The election commission (EC) had introduced the election code of conduct.