The Election Commission (EC) has been closely monitoring social media in connection with the upcoming local elections on Friday since the silence period began on Tuesday night. The Election Commission has placed special emphasis on adhering to the code of conduct to ensure that the election is conducted in a clean, free, and fraud-free manner.

The EC has stated that a high-level code of conduct monitoring team is being mobilized to ensure that the code of conduct is not violated during the silence period starting from noon on Tuesday. Similarly, all the district election offices are also conducting necessary monitoring to ensure that the code of conduct is not violated. On top of this, micro-monitors are also working in this regard.

The action has been taken to prevent the election from being rigged.

Regulating and managing social media is seen as a challenge for the Election Commission for this election. For this reason, a task force on social network monitoring has been formed under the coordination of the IT chief of the Election Commission. Among them are social media experts, IT engineers, and representatives of Nepal Police’s Cyber Bureau.