Over 200 candidates fail to submit election expenditure in Taplejung

By Chandra Pandak,Taplejung, July 28: Most of the candidates who did not disclose the details of the election expenses are those who were candidates in Fungling Municipality and Meringden Rural Municipality, according to the District Election Office Taplejung,. 

A total of 40 candidates from the two local levels have not submitted their expenditure details.According to the District Election Office, 704 of them have submitted their expenditure details.

Bandavaraj (Bipin) Dulal, information officer at the District Election Office, informed that 33 candidates from Sidingwa Rural Municipality and 30 from Pathibhara Yangwarak Rural Municipality provided no details of expenses.

According to Dulal, 27 candidates from Sirijungha Rural Municipality and 21 candidates from Mikwakhola Rural Municipality did not disclose their expenses. A total of 12 candidates from Atharai Tribeni Rural Municipality and nine people from Paktanglung Rural Municipality and Maivakhola Rural Municipality did not declare their expenses. Similarly, eight of the 14 candidates for the district coordination committee election have not submitted their expenditure details.

In all 933 candidates were in fray for various posts, including 919 members of the executive committee and 14 candidates for the district coordination committee. According to the District Election Office, 704 of them have submitted their expenditure details.

There is a provision that the candidates must submit the details of their election expenses to the respective district election office within 30 days of the announcement of the results.