Voters in Humla Demand Ballot Boxes Moved to Monastery, Disrupting Polling

Humla. In Halji, Ward-6 of Namkha Rural Municipality, Humla, locals have obstructed voting by demanding that the ballot boxes be taken to the monastery. At the Sunakhani Secondary School polling station in Halji, local lamas disputed the process, demanding proxy voting rights and insisting that the ballot boxes be moved to the monastery because there are sick individuals there.

There are 264 voters in that area. So far, 164 votes have been cast, DSP Shankar Khadka of Humla told Ratopati. Khadka informed that voting has not been suspended, but locals are demanding that the ballot boxes be taken to the monastery. The Election Commission is conducting voting at that polling station using a helicopter to transport election materials and security personnel.

That village is the hometown of the RSP candidate, Tashi Lhamo. Six employees have been deployed to conduct voting there.