Any individual receiving wages from the institutions run under the grants of federal, province and local governments shall be ineligible if s/he is named as a candidate in the closed list of the political parties under the proportional representation (PR) electoral system in the forthcoming House of Representatives (HoR) elections scheduled for March 5.

As per the House of Representatives Member Election (First Amendment) Guidelines-2082, anyone charged with corruption, rape, human trafficking and smuggling, drug smuggling, money laundering, passport misuse and abduction will also be declared ineligible to become candidates in the poll. Likewise, the candidacy of those individuals sentenced on different charges shall be termed invalid if two years have not passed after the sentence, the new amendment to the election laws stated.

Furthermore, the candidacy shall be terminated if the individuals named in the closed list of the political parties were convicted of criminal offenses or if they have been sentenced to life imprisonment or imprisonment for 20 years, and the verdict was final.