Counting of votes of Kathmandu to begin

Kathmandu: Preparations for the counting of votes in Kathmandu Metropolitan City have reached the final stage. An all-party meeting held on Friday night had decided to count the votes from 8 am today.

The counting of votes will be done at the office of the Returning Officer in the City Hall building. Election Officer Prem Kumar Shrestha said that the office currently distributing identity cards to the party representatives for the counting of votes.

He shared that the votes of wards 1 and 32 will be counted first to be followed by others gradually. In the election held on Friday, 63.49 per cent of the votes had been cast in the Kathmandu Metropolis.