Vote count in Chitwan 2 at 1 pm today

Chitwan, April 24 :  Vote count in Chitwan constituency 2 will begin at 1 pm today. An all-party meeting today morning took a decision to this effect.

Earlier, an all-party meeting on Sunday night could not strike an agreement to count votes, thus prompting the meeting today to decide the matter, said assistant election officer Ishwor Acharya.     

Representatives of various political parties including Nepali Congress and the CPN (UML) accused Chief District Officer of not turning up for the meeting on Sunday night for the vote count. They had accused the breach of the election code of conduct with the 'involvement' of the CDO. They had been demanding clarification for the act in the meeting.     

The constituency had a total of 124,695 eligible voters (63,291 women, 61,403 men and one third gender). In the House of Representatives by-election, high competition is expected among NC's Jit Narayan Shrestha from the alliance, UML's Ram Prasad Neupane and Rastriya Swatantra Party's Rabi Lamichhane. (RSS)