After the Nepalis have successfully performed the long-waited historical constituent assembly poll on April 10, they have been most eagerly waiting for the results of the poll.
The UN Mission to Nepal and other national and international observers have reported that the elections were free and peaceful though a few polling centers did have some disputes that will be solved through re-polling.
Especially, the Nepali Congress (NC) and the Emaalay (UML) were involved in violence and killing in some districts. Even in Kathmandu constituency number 9, many UML supporters were found to have voted repeatedly in more than four constituencies.
In Kaleshwor village in Lalitpur, most of the previous UML supporters had turned Maoist supporters. Enraged by their lowly status, the UML party workers angrily disputed with the election bureaucrats and gave a false piece of news to radio and television stations that the election has been postponed at the centre while the election commission and observers denied the false propaganda.
Similarly, UML and Congress party workers in Dhading district had demonstrated weapons to prevent ordinary voters from going to the polling centers.
In Nuwakot, the armed gangs serving Nepali Congress leader Narsingh KC fired randomly against their rival party supporters.
Though there were some deaths on the polling day, no force was able to baffle the constituent assembly election, the key to the ongoing peace process.
The CPN (Maoist), the Nepali Congress and the UML have appeared the main competent forces across Nepal.
Latest vote count reports confirm that CPN (Maoist) Chairman Prachanda is far ahead of the NC and the UML in Kathmandu’s Constituency number 10 where the global mass media have focused now.
Some unconfirmed reports about some vote boxes being kept in the camps of security forces without access to political representatives have created confusion among the people, who generally believe that Nepal’s ruling political parties, uncomfortable with the arrival of new forces, have a pre-determined habit of rigging through different tricks. To add to the people’s confusion, the Election Commission itself has not been able to transport the vote boxes to district headquarters on time. They claim to have rented foreign helicopters for the purpose, but they have annoyingly delayed the transportation of vote boxes.
No matter how clever the ruling parties might think they are, the majority of Nepalis have sought vast changes in all the existing feudal mechanisms. Whoever wins the majority in Nepal, they will have to face people’s high aspirations. Those who hold leading positions will have to lead the overall peace process by implementing the provision of federal republic written in the interim constitution.