By COLlive reporter
A Chabad Shliach will be serving as an observer in the controversial elections to take place Tuesday to choose members of a new assembly tasked with writing a constitution.
Rabbi Chezky Lifshitz, Director of the Chabad center in Kathmandu, will be one of the hundreds of foreign observers that will be monitoring the polls, Rotter website reported.
The previous assembly elected in 2008 was supposed to draft a constitution was bitterly divided and never accomplished its task, BBC News reported.
An interim government formed earlier this year by Nepal’s major parties has overseen the elections and is led by the Supreme Court’s chief judge, Khilraj Regmi.
On the eve of the vote, he condemned sporadic violence in different parts of the country and said the security forces would ensure a free and fair election.
Joining Rabbi Lifshitz will also be Israeli Ambassador to Nepal Hanan Goder Goldberger. The two traveled Monday to the Manang village, one of the stops along the famous Annapurna trek through the Himalayas.
Voting in remote villages, many disconnected from electricity, began on Monday to ensure their results are tallied as the rest of the country votes.
The resourceful Rabbi Lifshitz is a central address for all things Jewish in the small landlocked Asian country high in the Himalayas between India and China.
The greatest shliach ever !!!!!