Officials barred from entering office in local bodies

The seven-party alliance, at the request of municipality employees, debarred elected representatives of local bodies to the office on Sunday afternoon and burnt the nameplates of the representatives.

The move of the cadres of the seven-party alliance came after the municipality employees told them that the elected representatives held several official and unofficial meetings post-haste after the reinstatement of the House to pass decisions that would give them financial benefits.

The government held the municipal elections in February 2006 without participation of major political parties.

The seven political parties said they will not recognize the election and is mulling over to reinstate the representatives who were elected from previous elections.

A report from Janakpur said nameplates of mayor Prem Prasad Shrestha and deputy mayor Nawal Kishor Mali were torched and their offices padlocked.

Sarlahi’s 17 area members including DDC chairman Surya Narayan Yadav and vice-chairman Arun Kumar Singh were also prevented from entering the DDC office.

Stating that only essential work related to the general public would be handled by the office, president of the Nepal Civil Servants’ Association of Sarlahi, Azim Mansur said, “We have taken this step to stop financial irregularities by those concocting fake bills.” nepalnews.com pb May 01 06