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The Election Commission has written a letter to the Rautahat police to take action against CPN (Unified Socialist) Chairman Madhav Nepal for breaching the election code of conduct. Nepal, who is also a candidate from Rautahat constituency-1, had said in a program that he would send youths abroad if he wins the upcoming election which was against the election code of conduct. A news was published recently stating that Nepal has promised to provide job opportunities abroad if he wins the elections. Based on the news, the poll body has directed the Rautahat police to take action against the former prime minister.

The Election Commission has said that four organizations will come to Nepal to monitor the upcoming elections. Among the four international organizations who had taken permission to monitor elections in Nepal, Russian organization Civic Chamber of Russian Federation is one of them. According to the Election Commission, Asian Network for Free Elections, SAARC Human Rights Foundation and Support Initiative for Liberty and Democracy are the other organizations who have been permitted to monitor the elections slated for November 20. This is the first time that a Russian organization is coming to Nepal to monitor the elections. Earlier in 2017, the EC had barred the elections representatives from the European Union to monitor the elections for violating the code of conduct enforced by the poll body.    

Candidates from Rasuwa district have expressed their commitment to fully abide by the election code of conduct enforced by the Election Commission for upcoming elections to the House of Representatives and Province Assembly. At an all-party meet held at the District Administration Office, Rasuwa on Wednesday, candidates from political parties, including Nepali Congress, CPN (Maoist Centre), CPN-UML, Rastriya Prajatantra Party, Janata Samajwadi Party, Nepal Majdur Kisan Party, Mangol National Organization and Rastriya Swatantra Party as well as independent candidates made the commitment. Chief Returning Officer Ramchandra Poudel, Chief District Officer Nawaraj Jaisi, security agencies chiefs and District Returning Officer Shreeram Thapa were also present on the occasion. On behalf of the political parties, their district chiefs, Nepali Congress candidate for HoR member Mohan Acharya, Maoist candidates for Province Assembly Indra Prasad Gautam, Congress candidate for Province Assembly Prabhat Lama and RPP province candidate Hari Prasad Ghimire, among others had made the commitment to follow the election code of conduct. In the all-party meet, various materials produced by the EC on the code of conduct such as flag size, publicity period, use of polite language, and process to be adopted while disseminating information through media were presented. According to the Election Office, there are 39,459 voters in the district in upcoming election. Keeping into consideration the election security, the Rasuwa district police office has imparted training to temporary police.  

The Election Commission (EC) has issued a seven-point directive to the political parties and candidates to implement the election code of conduct. The poll body issued the directive to hold the upcoming elections in a free, fair and transparent manner. The EC said that it issued the seven-point directive to the political parties and candidates to hold the elections in free, fair and transparent manner as many political personalities have been found carrying out publicity campaigns by using government resources, running door-to-door programs with more than 25 people, organizing any corner or mass meetings with the objective of spreading their messages to the public and using vehicles to conduct election campaigns.