KATHMANDU, Jan. 22 -- The silent period for the National Assembly election starts from 12 midnight today.

The Election Commission (EC) issued a statement, saying that the campaigning has been prohibited since midnight. This period will continue till the end of voting.

During the silent period, political party officials, candidates, fraternal organizations of the party and other persons, institutions or bodies that must follow the code of conduct are not allowed to conduct any kind of discussion, interaction, meetings, conferences, workshops, etc., including election publicity.

Similarly, EC said that no vote solicitation and election campaigning shall be done by any method, process or means and no message, information or propaganda mat...