Defeated Contestants Sharing Happiness With Winner Good Trend: CEC

2 Dec., Kathmandu : Chief Election Commissioner Dinesh Kumar Thapaliya on Monday said defeated election contestants sharing happiness and garlanding the winners is a good trend. “This trend disseminates the message that elections are organised in a fair, free and credible way. We should encourage and establish this tendency,” he said at an event organised here to thank all those deployed for the recently held by-poll.

He said the by-poll has been concluded successfully and low budget has been spent on election related activities and publicity and voter education. “The by-poll that has been concluded in a fair, free and impartial way is the result of our collective and good efforts,” he said. Similarly, Spokesperson for the EC, Raj Kumar Shrestha claimed that the by-election was held successfully and with comparatively low budget.

The EC has made public final results of the by-poll that was held in 37 districts to elect members of the House of Representatives, State Assembly and local levels. A total of 5,054 employees and 310 voter educators were deployed for the by-election.