The Election Commission (EC) has scrapped the nomination of Resham Chaudhary for the House of Representatives (HoR) election from Kailali constituency-1 following an investigation into a complaint filed against him.

However, the complaints lodged against the HoR election candidates from constituency-2 of Sunsari, constituency-1 of Rautahat, and constituency-2 of Bhaktapur lacked sufficient claims, assistant spokesperson at the Election Commission, Kul Bahadur GC, says. . 

Similarly, a complaint registered in Rautahat district was rejected on Wednesday. 

The EC conducted an investigation into the complaints from 3 pm on Wednesday, which concluded at 5 pm on Thursday.

The Election Commission is publishing the list of the candidates under the first-past-the-post shortly.