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Nepal Workers and Peasants' Party Chair Narayanman Bijukchhe has accused the leaders of big political parties of acting under the influence of external forces and pushing the country towards a crisis.</span><br></p><p><br></p><p>Speaking at a programe today he said &nbsp;Prime Minister &nbsp;Deuba's statement during his recent India visit was in the violation of parliamentary norms and values." &nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>&nbsp;He called the government to distribute the relief assistance to the flood victims efficiently.</p>

<p><span style="line-height: 1.42857;">CPN (UML) Chair KP Sharma Oli has urged the Rastriya Janata Party Nepal ( RJPN) to give up the politics of &nbsp;vandalism, negation and violence.&nbsp;</span><br></p><p><br></p><p>Talking to media persons upon his arrival at Tribhuvan International Airport from Thailand he said, "The RJPN should demonstrate political behaviour and establish itself a pure political party." &nbsp;</p><p><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></p><p>Likewise he claimed his party as a responsible one which &nbsp;never acted to a short temperament.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>He said the government's decision to hold the elections to the provincial assembly and House of Representatives in two rounds is not appropriate.</p>

<p><span style="line-height: 1.42857;">Pakistani Ambassador to Nepal, Mazhar Javed, called on Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Krishna Bahadur Mahara, today.</span><br></p><p><br></p><p>The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has stated that the matters relating to bilateral relations, mutual interests and cooperation were discussed during the meeting.</p><p><br></p><p>On the occasion, the Foreign Minister insisted on the need of connecting both countries via an air route, calling for making initiations from both sides toward that end. &nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>&nbsp;Stating that Nepal and Pakistan have always cordial relations, he stressed the need for taking such relations to a new height.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>While the Pakistani Ambassador has said the Pakistani government will &nbsp;give top priority to the issue of connecting both countries with an air route.</p>

<p><span style="line-height: 1.42857;">Stakeholders &nbsp;have demanded the earliest implementation of the government's programme for the current fiscal year to allocate ten public spaces in the Kathmandu Valley and one space in each constituency.</span><br></p><p><br></p><p>They raised their concern over the condition of available public spaces in the Valley being used as dumping sites or parking lots by the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC).</p><p><br></p><p>Speakers at a programme organized on preservation of public spaces by Primary Health Care Centre here today also underscored preservation of such spaces for the effective disaster management.</p><p><br></p><p>The municipal new building code dictates that at least five percent spaces of the total land should be left unused while constructing a house or any other structures within the KMC.</p><p><br></p><p>Presenting a working paper, Suman Maharjan expressed his dismay over the increasing lack of public spaces in the Kathmandu Valley.</p><p><br></p><p>Likewise, other participants as Sachin Maharjan and Prakash Maharjan said that many vegetable bazaars in the Valley were placed haphazardly.</p>

<p><span style="line-height: 1.42857;">The Election Commission has fixed 3,578 polling &nbsp;centers &nbsp;for the third-round &nbsp;of elections.</span><br></p><p><br></p><p>The third phase of elections will be held at 136 local levels of eight districts in Province No. 2. Sarlahi, Saptari, Dhanusha, Mahottari, Rautahat, Siraha, Bara, and Parsa. &nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Among these districts, Sarlahi has the maximum 20 levels and Mahottari has the least number-15 levels.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Spokesperson at the Election Commission Surya Prasad Sharma has said over 31 thousand human resources including employees and volunteers are being deputed to conduct the elections.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>A total of 26 lakh 64 thousand and 950 people are eligible voters for the third phase voting who are electing as many as 6627 their representatives for one metropolitan city, three sub-metropolises , 73 municipalities and 59 rural municipalities.</p>