JHAPA: CPN-UML Chairperson KP Oli has urged the political parties to embrace healthy electoral competition.

Oli said that unhealthy contest could not be a democratic exercise.

“The political system that we have introduced after a long struggle is itself the multi-party competition. If the competition is not healthy that would not be considered a democratic polity,” he asserted.

The UML chairperson called for unity among the political parties on keeping intact the national unity and the dignity of multi-party competition.

Highlighting on the cultural, social and religious importance of Dashain festival, he said there was no such festival anywhere else in which blessings are taken from elders, the women’s power is worshipped and which gives the message of victory of truth and good over evil and falsehood.