The Central Security Committee has decided to move forward with the necessary process to deploy the Nepali Army in the general election scheduled for March 5.
A meeting of the Central Security Committee, held at the Ministry of Home Affairs on Sunday, decided to recommend the arny deployment to the National Security Council and to write to the Ministry of Defense to this effect.
The meeting, chaired by the Home Minister and attended by representatives by four security agencies, decided to approve the Integrated Election Security Plan-2082, according to the spokesperson for the Ministry for Home Affairs, Ananda Kafle.
"The Central Security Committee has decided to write to the Ministry of Defense for recommending the deployment of the Nepali Army to the National Security Council, as per the election security plan," Kafle told Nepalkhabar. "It also decided to conduct Regional Security Planning Seminars targeting election security."
According to him, the first security seminar will be held in Lumbini Province on November 25. The Central Security Committee also decided to strictly enforce legal action to neutralize unlawful activities that incite violence and terrorize the public.
Attendees at the meeting included Inspector General of Nepal Police, Dan Bahadur Karki, Inspector General of the Armed Police Force, Raju Aryal, Chief of the National Investigation Department, Tekendra Karki, and a Lieutenant General of the Nepali Army.
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