"The Election Commission has already cleared Balendra Shah of all code of conduct complaints and closed his case."

Election Commission officials and multiple media outlets report that the EC has recently sought a second clarification from Rastriya Swatantra Party candidate Balendra Shah regarding alleged misuse of plainclothes police in his Jhapa-5 campaign. This follows an earlier notice related to his online comments about CPN-UML chair KP Sharma Oli and additional scrutiny of his social media activity. Under the Election Code of Conduct, 2082, a clarification request signals that a complaint is being examined, not that it has been resolved in the candidate's favour. There is no official EC decision publicly stating that all complaints against Shah have been dismissed, so claims that he has been fully cleared are unsupported by available evidence.