The Election Commission (EC) has urged security agencies to help conduct the local level elections in a free and fair manner.

The EC urged the chiefs of all four security agencies and secretaries of the concerned ministers during a meeting held on Friday.

During the meeting, Chief Election Commissioner Dr Ayodhi Prasad Yadav and commissioner Sudhir Kumar Shah asked security agencies to analyse security sensitivity, identify the place and persons to be given security and focus on security sensitive area while formulating a security plan.

On the occasion, Home Secretary Lok Darshan Regmi informed that a comprehensive draft security plan would be prepared.

Likewise, Defence Secretary Sridhar Sapkota said that Nepal Army personnel would be deployed for the security in the elections. RSS