Voting Halted for Five Hours at Dolakha Polling Station Amid Conflict Between Officials and Party Cadres
Kathmandu. Voting was disrupted for nearly five hours at the Golmeshwor Secondary School polling station in Tamakoshi Rural Municipality-4, Dolakha, due to a dispute between election staff and political party cadres.
Police fired two rounds in the air to bring the situation under control. Eight people were arrested and later released. Despite the day-long disruption, voting was completed at that polling center, SSP Somendra Singh Rathore, who was deployed to oversee the election in Dolakha, told Ratopati.
SSP Rathore stated that 44 out of the 56 missing ballot books were recovered. Nine ballot papers remain unaccounted for, and an agreement was reached to send the matter to the District Election Office after preparing a record. The dispute arose after a group attempted to assault the staff after 300 votes had been cast in the morning. A total of 800 votes were cast at that polling station, including the 300 cast in the morning.
The cadres involved in the dispute at the Golmeshwor Secondary School polling station were from the Nepali Congress and CPN (UML).
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