President of Nepal Bidya Devi Bhandari has appreciated Election Commission of Nepal for conducting free, fair and credible provincial and parliament elections.

In a meeting with Chief Election Commissioner Dr. Ayodhee Prasad Yadav and other commissioners at President House in Kathmandu on Thursday she congratulated the entire team of the commission for successful elections.

Chief Election Commissioner Dr. Yadav apprised President Bhandari about latest position of allocation of seats of Provincial Assemblies and House of Representative to political parties on the basis of proportional representation. He also informed President about preparations for upcoming elections of National Assembly, the upper house of the parliament.

The much awaited parliament and provincial assembly elections were held last year in two phases on November 26 and December 7. The left alliance of CPN (UML) and CPN (Maoist Center) had registered landslide victory in the historic elections.