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The Election Commission has taken stock of the integrated security plan developed by security agencies for the November 20 House of Representatives and Province Assembly elections. In a meeting at the EC today, chiefs of security agencies and secretaries of the Ministries of Home and Defense apprised Chief Election Commissioner Dinesh Kumar Thapaliya and his team of the security plan. The meeting was attended by secretary of the Home Ministry Binod Prakash Singh, secretary of the Defense Ministry Kiran Raj Sharma, Lieutenant General of Nepal Army Bal Krishna Karki, Inspector General of Nepal Police Dhiraj Pratap Singh, Armed Police Force IGP Raju Aryal and Chief of the National Investigation Department Hutaraj Thapa.  

President Bidya Devi Bhandari has given approval to deploy Nepal Army personnel in the elections to the House of Representatives and National Assembly scheduled for November 20. The President gave the nod as per the recommendation of the National Security Council on September 2 and the decision of the Cabinet meeting held on September 12. The President’s Office said that the approval to deploy Nepal Army personnel was given as per Article 66 (2) of the Constitution of Nepal.

CPN (Maoist Center) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal said that he was positive about the demands put forth by retired integrated army personnel. The former Prime Minister in his address to the first national gathering of the retired integrated Army personnel here on Sunday, said "Their major demand is that they should be associated with the party organization and need the opportunity to contest in the election. I have told them that they can associate with the party organization and can contest in the polls." On the occasion, they informed leader Dahal about their current situation and problems facing the party. Chair Dahal who reached his home district Chitwan to take part in various party programs is scheduled to stay here for two more days. He also met with fish traders. During the meeting, he assured them of addressing their demands. "Policymaking has been completed. Problems have surfaced without its implementation." At the time, they complained that they were finding it hard to compete with fishes brought from foreign countries by evading taxes. President of the Nepal Fish Entrepreneurs Association, Chitwan, Khagendra Subedi demanded that the government control import of unhealthy fish from neighboring India.  

The Supreme Court has issued a show cause order to President Bidya Devi Bhandari who had refused to authenticate the Citizenship Bill. Giving priority to the writs, a single bench of Justice Hari Phuyal on Sunday sought reasons from the President for not certifying the bill to amend the Citizenship Act. Five persons had registered the writs at the Supreme Court after President Bhandari refused to authenticate the bill endorsed by both the houses of the Federal Parliament within the stipulated deadline. Sunil Ranjan Singh, Sagar Baral, Dev Sharma, Shonu Rauniyar and Sunil Kumar Yadav had filed the writs demanding a directive against the President to authenticate the bill.