Thapaliya will chair the post that has been vacant after Ayodhee Prasad Yadav’s tenure last month.

Post the endorsement, Thapaliya presented his plans for reforms in CEC and the country’s electoral system as a whole.

He expressed commitment to bring in fair and free electoral system along with necessary advancements, while also making the voting process easier for Non-Resident Nepalis.

Thapaliya’s appointment is now waiting for President Bidhya Devi Bhandari’s approval.

Thapaliya has served in top government department as the Secretary at the Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration.

His appointment came after a special hearing held to examine complaints made against the nominees for the country’s top posts i.e. CEC and Supreme Court Justice, on April 17, 2019.

Background

Nepal’s Parliamentary Hearing Committee held special meetings on April 16, 2019 pertaining to hearing of nominations made for the country’s top posts.

This include nominees for the posts of Chief Election Commissioner and Supreme Court Judge.

In its decision on April 16, the Committee decided to hold a hearing session with Dinesh Kumar Thapaliya nominated for the vacant position of the Chief Election Commissioner on April 17, 2019.

According to the Committee Chairperson Laxman Lal Karki, Thapaliya was due to attend the hearing at 2 pm today. While, the panel has decided to meet complainants against Thapaliya at 11 am the same day.

A total of 6 complaints have been filed against Thapaliya.

In another important decision, the Committee summoned five persons nominated for the Supreme Court Judge post on April 11, 2019.

The Committee is also due to meet complainants against the nominees for the SC Judge post on April 18, 2019.

Kumar Regmi, Hari Phunyal, Manoj Raj Sharma, Prakash Dhungana and Sushma Lata Mathema have been recently nominated for the SC Judge post, recently. And, a total of 5 complaints have been lodged against them.

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Nepal Foreign Minister Pradeep Gyawali informed that a Cabinet meeting held on July 16, 2018 decided to recommend Upreti as the new Nepali envoy to India.

To further this process, Upreti’s name will be sent for approval to a Parliamentary committee.

Post the committee’s ‘approval’, it will be forwarded to Nepal Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) which will then send it to the Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) for an agreemo.

Upreti is being considered as a replacement to Deep Kumar Upadhyay, who resigned in October 2017 to contest for the Nepal Federal Parliamentary Elections 2017.

Upreti’s Political Career
Nilkantha Upreti has served as Nepal’s Election Commissioner and Chief Election Commissioner (CEC 2013). After serving as officiating CEC for over four years, Upreti became full-time Nepal CEC in 2017.

During his tenure, he interacted with several Kathmandu-based diplomatic missions and successfully conducted talks for several projects for the Nepal Election Commission.

Upreti has also worked with UN’s Afghanistan electoral operations.

We hope that the newly-appointed ambassador will take the existing Nepal-India bilateral ties to greater heights driving collaboration across all levels of cooperation.

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