KANCHANPUR, Nov 16: Sitaram Chaudhary of the freed Kamaiya Camp at Belauri Municipality-5, Kanchanpur has been thinking to cast vote only to the candidate, who provides him with land and funds for vegetable farming.

Chaudhary involved in vegetable farming on five katthas of land provided by the government during the freed Kamaiya rehabilitation scheme said that he would expand the vegetable farming if he gets grant amount for the same. “No candidate has yet reached our camp. I want to ask for grant and land on rent from the candidates,” he said.

Most of the families of freed Kamaiya of the camp have been making Rs 70,000 to Rs 200,000 income annually from vegetable farming. Freed kamaiyas, however, have been able to send their children school by selling vegetables producing in a small amount of land, but the freed kamaiyas are jobless.

Motikala Chudhary said that she would cast vote to the candidate who assured them of creating employment opportunities for them.

Similarly, Lal Bahadur Chaudhary, said that it is sure that the candidate implementing the commitment of making arrangement of grant and government job to youths, among others would be in their choice. He said that they held discussion in their settlement and decided to caste vote only to a capable candidate.

There are 600 freed Kamaiya households in the settlement.

KATHMANDU, Nov 15: The CPN-UML has called for ensuring security to the election candidates citing that a series of attacks and threats to its candidates has not stopped.

The UML Central Election Mobilization Committee demanded security to the candidates saying incidents of armed attacks and intimidations against the candidates of the leftist alliance who are into the election campaign for the House of Representatives and State Assembly elections on November 26 and December 7 have increased of late.

“Party’s alternative politburo member and former Minister Sherdhan Rai who is also the candidate for the State Assembly election from Bhojpur district constituency-1 came under an armed attack on the morning of November 14 while the candidate from Sunsari-3 and central member Bhagawati Chaudhari’s family members have received threats of attack,” spokesman of the Committee Bishnu Rimal stated in a press release he issued today.

A serious question has arisen whether the government itself is the mastermind behind these incidents of attacks and threats by making an anonymous party to take responsibility for these attacks directed at obstructing the election campaign, as it has remained a mute spectator, states the press release.

It also said the latest developments show that the government is oriented towards breaching the election code of conduct, spreading the fear of transfer among the government employees and making some ‘unknown’ party to attack the election candidates instead of focusing on conducting the elections in free, fair and fear-free environment. RSS