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The Election Commission has directed 82 political parties to make public their audit report. A meeting of the poll body held on Wednesday directed 82 parties that have submitted the audit report for the fiscal year 2078/2079 within the given time to publish the report through the concerned party’s office, website, mass media (newspapers, radio, television etc), social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) within seven days and inform the Commission about it. According to sub-section (1) of Section 41 of the Act on Political Parties, 2073, there is a legal provision that political parties that are registered with the Commission must be audited by a licensed auditor within six months of the end of the fiscal year and submit the audit report to the Commission within a month. Muskan Sena Nepal Party, Shiva Sena Nepal, Aam Aadmi Party Nepal, Rastriya Janmukhi Party Loktantrik and Nepal Communist Party Loktantrik, which have not submitted the audit report for the fiscal years 2077/78 and 2078/79, have been directed to furnish clarification why they should not be taken action as per clause (a) of sub-section (5) of section 54 of the Political Parties Act, 2073.  

CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli urged the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority to carry out investigations into all corruption cases. He said so while addressing the Central Committee meeting held at the party headquarters in Chyasal of Lalitpur. Chairman Oli said that the corruption watchdog should not be scared to investigate the corruption cases. He was referring to the cantonment corruption case. The former prime minister further said the people involved in the fake Bhutanese refugee scam should not be spared. Oli opined that the party would protest if attempts were made to implicate the innocent and let the guilty off. The central committee meeting began today. He said that attempts were made to implicate someone in a prejudiced manner in the fake Bhutanese refugee scam. The UML Chair said that during the meeting with Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal had urged not to spare those involved in the scam and not to implicate innocent people. He further said that the party suspended party secretary Top Bahadur Rayamajhi to help with the investigation into the scam. Saying people making Nepalis stateless and sending people to foreign land illegally are traitors, he questioned why the people arrested earlier in this scam were released. Chairman Oli said he during the Premiership of Girija Prasad Koirala had suggested resolving the problem by sending Bhutanese refugees to third countries after it was not possible to repatriate them to Bhutan. He added that he during his term as Foreign Minister had urged the then US President George W. Bush to resolve the Bhutanese refugee problem. Similarly, UML General-Secretary Shankar Pokhrel opined that the 'mission grassroots' launched with a plan to strengthen the CPN-UML as the strong national force would be reviewed. Discussion would be held on 10 different topics, including political report of Oli, report of central body, report of mission grassroots, action plan of provinces, division of work of central committee members in the meeting. The meeting would run till May 13.  

Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba held a meeting with Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Thursday. Deuba had reached Baluwatar to meet Prime Minister Dahal prior to the party’s office bearers meeting. Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Purna Bahadur Khadka and Minister for Foreign Affairs NP Saud were present in the meeting. It has been learnt that they discussed the issue of fake Bhutanese refugee scam in the meeting. The office bearers meeting was called after Congress leader and former home minister Bal Krishna Khand was arrested in connection with the fake Bhutanese refugee scam. The office bearers meeting was also held on Wednesday. The meeting discussed whether to suspend central member Khanda from the party’s post or not. But the meeting ended without making a decision. The meeting to be held today will take the decision on the same issue. Former office bearers are also called to attend the meeting today.  

Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal expressed his condolences on the demise of the second people's movement victim Mukesh Kayastha. He wished for eternal peace to the departed soul and expressed heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family through a social networking site. Kayastha passed away on Wednesday night. He was 32. He could not walk and talk, and was confined to his home ever since he was injured in the movement. Following complications in his health, he was admitted to Banepa-based Scheer Memorial Hospital, where he breathed his last, said Hira Sharma, Chairperson of the Mukesh Foundation. Mukesh got injured during the second People's Movement at Teendobato, Kavre on April 9, 2006. He was shot by a bullet in his left temple. The kayasthas' only son Mukesh from Banepa Municipality-8 in Kavrepalanchok district was 15 years old when he was injured. He was an eighth grader at Bidhya Sagar School in Banepa. In 2078 BS, the Warriors, Achieves and Respect Committee of Democracy led by then the Foreign Minister Pradeep Gyawali honoured him as a 'Warrior of Democracy' and appreciated his contribution to the people's movement. He was also known as the 'Living Martyr'. The government waived loans of Rs 700,000 taken by his family. It had also been providing Rs 15,000 per month for his medication, and had managed a health worker for his care. He has completely stopped talking since the past one year. He was being fed through tube feeding. The Kayastha family did not lose their hopes on him. "Mukesh's right hand and both legs were immobile since he fell sick. We had a hope that he could be cured," said Mukesh's father Krishna Man. Lately, Dr Gopal Raman, who works at the Mediciti Hospital, was attending to him. Four youths from Kavrepalanchok were killed in the movement and 40 others were injured.