Election Commission on Saturday decided to conduct re-election at ward no. 19 of Bharatpur Metropolitan City in Chitwan district.

A meeting of EC took such decision based on a report prepared by a probe team comprising of Office of the Chief Election Officer, Chitwan District Election Office and representatives of Election Commission.

The vote counting in the metropolis has been on halt after 90 ballots were torn allegedly by CPN (Maoist Centre) cadres.

Following the incident, the electoral alliance of Nepali Congress and CPN (Maoist Centre) had been demanding re-election in the metropolis while CPN-UML had demanded continuance of the vote counting.

A dispute had surfaced in the metropolis on May 28 while counting the votes following which Maoist Centre cadres had torn the ballot papers. Subsequently, Chief Election Officer Kabi Prasad Neupane had sealed the votes and postponed the vote counting indefinitely.