Kathmandu, Nov. 23
The Election Commission (EC) has asked the staff of the government, offices including the universities and schools, to refrain from seeking membership of any political parties and participate in their assemblies.
According to a statement of the election body published on Tuesday, it has decided to issue a fresh direction to the political parties not to distribute their membership to any incumbent professor, teacher and staff of the federal, provincial and local government, and organisations under their ownership.
The directives were issued as per the Article 14(2-C) of the Political Parties Act, 2016, said the EC. As per the Article 14(2), no government office holders at any level of government can be members of the political party.
Stating that its attention was drawn to the media reports that teachers, staff and professors holding public posts participated in the assemblies of various political parties and also got selected as the representatives for such programmes, it said that if any government employee receives membership or gets elected to the post of the office bearers in the party, their details would not be updated at the EC.
The EC has also decided on Tuesday that since the details of the office bearers of the political parties in the provincial and district committees should be submitted to the respective election offices in the provinces and districts, the election body would direct the political parties to remove the government staff from the membership list and inform the EC about it.
Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 24 November 2021.
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