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Preparations have been intensified for the elections to the House of Representatives and Provincial Assembly to be held on November 20 in Myagdi district. The necessary materials for the election have arrived in Myagdi. The Election Commission has sent 58 types of materials needed for operating the polling stations. "We have received ballot boxes, ballot papers, blank cloths, swastika stamps, ink, etc. required for polling stations ", District Election Officer Bhim Prasad Ghimire said. The selection process has been started to appoint 120 polling officers, 120 assistant polling officers, 593 assistant staff, and 120 support staff in the polling stations. Staff details have been collected from federal, provincial and local level offices and provided to the office of the Chief Returning Officer. There are 82 polling centers and 119 polling stations in Myagdi, which has six local levels. Deputy Superintendent of Police Tilak Bharti shared that the district security committee has planned to categorize 15 of the 82 polling stations in Myagdi as highly sensitive, 58 as sensitive and nine as normal. Altogether, 732 temporary police personnel have been recruited and mobilized after 10 days of training. There are 19 candidates competing for three seats to be elected in Myagdi, which has one constituency in the House of Representatives and two constituencies in the Provincial Assembly.  

The ballot papers for election to the House of Representatives and Provincial Assembly to be held on November 20 have arrived here on Saturday. Chief Returning Officer Madan Bahadur Dhami said that the ballot papers sent by the Election Commission have arrived in both constituencies of the district. According to him, 530,000 ballot papers have been received in the district for the first-past-the-post (FPTP) category. Earlier, 538,000 ballot papers for proportional representation (PR) category had arrived in the district. The ballot papers have been registered and stored in the returning officer's office according to the constituencies. According to Tekraj Bhusal, Election Officer of Constituency No. 1, a total of 133,000 ballot papers have been received for the FPTP system towards the House of Representatives. Similarly, 66,000 ballot papers have been received for Provincial Assembly (1) and 68,000 ballot papers for Provincial Assembly (2) seat. The ballot papers have been secured and stored in a sealed room. Similarly, Assistant Election Officer Indra Kumar Khadka shared that same 66,000 ballot papers each have been received for Provincial Assembly (1) and Provincial Assembly (2) of constituency No. 2. The ballot papers that arrived on Saturday are kept under the security cordon of the Nepal Police in a sealed room.

The Election Commission (EC) has completed printing of the ballot papers for upcoming federal and provincial elections. The poll body said that the number of voters who will reach the age of 18 by November 3 is 17.9 million 88 thousand 570. The Election Commission has printed around 80 million ballot papers for the elections. The Commission has already transported the ballot papers under the Proportional Representation election system. The ballot papers have been dispatched to Taplejung, Panchthar, Ilam, Jhapa, Sankhuwasabha, Tehrathum, Bhojpur, Dhankuta, Morang and Sunsari districts. The ballot papers in Gandaki, Karnali, Lumbini and Sudurpaschim Provinces have already been transported. The EC had authorized the Janak Sikhshya Samagri Kendra (JSSK) to print the ballot papers.

Nepal Army personnel have been mobilized in Sunsari district to make the elections to the House of Representatives and Province Assembly slated for November 20 successful. The District Security Committee, Sunsari said that the Nepal Army personnel have been mobilized in sensitive and highly sensitive areas from Friday. Chief District Office of Sunsary Indra Dev Yadav said that Nepal Army personnel have been mobilized in Inaruwa, Duhabi, Ramdhuni and Barahachhetra of Dharan and Itahari Sub-Metropolitan Cities of Sunsari hold the elections in a peaceful manner. He said that the Nepali Army personnel have also been deployed in Koshi, Bhokraha, Nursing, Harinagar, Dewangunj and Amadhudhagadhi Rural Municipalities. Chief District Officer Yadav said that 440 from Nepali Army, 1, 581 from Nepal Police, 873 from Armed Police Force, 16 from National Investigation Department and 2, 559 temporary police personnel were mobilized in the district for the elections. The Nepal Army personnel will patrol the voting centers and other places of Sunsari.