KATHMANDU: Chief Election Commissioner Dinesh Kumar Thapaliya asserted that the May 13 local election would be organized on the stipulated date.

The Chief Election Commissioner assured that the upcoming election would be held in a clean, fair, credible and fearless environment.

Stating that the major function of the periodic election was to strengthen federalism and democracy, Thapaliya argued that if there were no elections, the democracy would lose.

Furthermore, he reaffirmed the Commission’s commitment to devising a monitoring mechanism to curb misinformation, disinformation, propaganda and hate speech among others which, he added, would defeat politics of integrity.