{"id":5598,"date":"2021-02-02T19:39:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T13:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.kathmandupati.com\/?p=5598"},"modified":"2021-02-02T19:41:52","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T13:56:52","slug":"finance-minister-paudel-assures-election-commission-of-allocating-necessary-budget-to-hold-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.kathmandupati.com\/?p=5598","title":{"rendered":"Finance Minister Paudel assures Election Commission of allocating necessary budget to hold elections\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">KATHMANDU &#8211; <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Minister for Finance Bishnu Prasad Paudel has assured that there would not be a shortage of budget to hold midterm elections.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During a meeting called by the Election Commission on Tuesday, Finance Minister Paude said that the government will allocate the necessary budget to hold the elections.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Election Commission has been holding discussions with various stakeholders including political parties as part of its preparations to conduct the midterm polls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earlier on December 20 last year, the government dissolved the House of Representatives and decided to hold midterm polls in two phases.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The midterm polls are scheduled to be held on April 30 and May 10.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Speaking at the meeting organized to discuss budget management, Finance Minister Paudel said that the preparations made by the Commission to hold the elections was encouraging.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe government will provide a required budget to hold elections in a free, fair, impartial and credible way. There will not be any shortage of budget and the ministry will provide full support to mobilize international assistance in line with the government policy,\u201d said Finance Minister Paudel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chief Election Commissioner Dinesh Kumar Thapaliya said that the Commission was committed to hold the elections in stipulated time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAs we have to carry out election related activities also by considering the Covid-19, there is a new and additional pressure on budget management this time compared to previous elections,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KATHMANDU &#8211; Minister for Finance Bishnu Prasad Paudel has assured that there would not be a shortage of budget to hold midterm elections.\u00a0 During a meeting called by the Election Commission on Tuesday, Finance Minister Paude said that the government will allocate the necessary budget to hold the elections.\u00a0 The Election Commission has been holding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Finance Minister Paudel assures Election Commission of allocating necessary budget to hold elections\u00a0\u00a0 - KathmanduPati<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/english.kathmandupati.com\/?p=5598\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Finance Minister Paudel assures Election Commission of allocating necessary budget to hold elections\u00a0\u00a0 - KathmanduPati\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"KATHMANDU &#8211; 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