NC general-secretaries demand EC to make arrangement of voting rights to non-resident Nepalis

KATHMANDU, June 21: General Secretaries of the Nepali Congress, Gagan Kumar Thapa and Bishwa Prakash Sharma, have demanded the bodies concerned to arrange voting rights to Nepali citizens living abroad. 

Thapa and Sharma met Chief Election Commissioner, Dinesh Kumar Thapaliya, today, and drew the attention of the Election Commission to take the decision in this regard as the Supreme Court has already given a verdict about the voting rights to Nepali citizens living abroad.

Stating that the decision has already been taken in the central working committee of the Nepali Congress in order to make arrangement of voting rights to the Nepali citizens living abroad, they urged the EC to move ahead with cooperation of different political parties and government for formulation of necessary laws and acts for the same, according to General-Secretary Sharma.