Kathmandu, 7 July: The Election Commission (EC) has demanded Rs 10 billion for the election of House of Representatives and Provincial Assembly.

The Chief Election Commissioner along with other commissioners met Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba on Wednesday and asked him to allocate the amount and advised him to set a date for the election. The EC has suggested to the Prime Minister to hold Federal and Provincial elections on November 18.

In the last elections of the House of Representatives and Provincial Assembly, the EC had spent Rs 7.80 billion.

People's News Monitoring Service