Party politics getting costlier is a matter of concern

Citing the ballooning expenditures of party’s internal elections, observers say politics, which should serve people, is moving out of ordinary people’s reach.

The Gandaki Election Committee of the Nepali Congress set a whopping Rs91,000 registration fee for a candidate for the provincial committee chair in the voting held on Friday in preparation for the ruling party’s upcoming general convention. One willing to contest for a provincial member had to post Rs31,000.