Ministry of Home Affairs Directs Assistant Chief District Officers on Election Code of Conduct

Kathmandu. The Ministry of Home Affairs has issued a statement directing all Assistant Chief District Officers across 77 districts to effectively carry out their assigned responsibilities as "Election Code of Conduct Monitoring Officers" designated by the Election Commission.

The Election Commission has already implemented the Election Code of Conduct, 2082, to ensure that the House of Representatives member elections, scheduled for March 5, 2026 (Falgun 21, 2082), are conducted in a clean, fair, transparent, and credible manner.

In a statement issued by Home Secretary Rajkumar Shrestha, all Assistant Chief District Officers have been instructed to effectively perform the monitoring duties entrusted to them by the Commission.

The statement notes that the Ministry of Home Affairs trusts that these responsibilities will be executed impartially and fearlessly, and further requests that reports of all activities performed as Election Code of Conduct Monitoring Officers be submitted to the Ministry.

The Commission clarified that it has appointed Assistant CDOs as monitoring officers for election conduct in all areas except for district-level economic matters to ensure the code of conduct is followed at the district level.