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Guwahati: Voters across Nepal began streaming into polling stations on Thursday morning to cast their ballots in a watershed general election, first since the Gen Z-led uprising that toppled the government of former Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli last year. Polling for all 165 constituencies commenced at 7 a.m. and is scheduled to conclude at [] The post Nepal goes to polls in first election since Gen Z protests appeared first on NorthEast Now .
Nepal, sandwiched between two populous neighbors, India and Tibet/China, goes to national polls on Thursday. Political observers across Asia are closely watching Pushpa Kamal Dahal (popularly known as Prachanda), a communist leader who led a decade-long anti-monarchy Maoist movement in the Hindu-majority Himalayan nation, which dethroned the last king, Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, in [] The post Can Nepal elections favour the return of Hindu monarchy? appeared first on NorthEast Now .