local-election

Nepal’s Gen Next Election

Nepal’s elections have traditionally been driven by vote-bank politics. Voters cast their ballots depending on generational party affiliation, caste, ethnic or regional...

Election Economy

With Nepalis distracted by slow vote-counting, the government sneaked in another petrol price hike to Rs170 per litre last week. Inflation is...

Kathmandu’s ‘Balen Phenomenon’

A rapper who is an independent mayoral candidate represents a Nepal-wide disenchantment with traditional politicians

Every vote counts, as counting begins in Nepal

Earlier this year, I visited my ward office to inquire about voter registration, and was informed that I would need to register...

Shristi Karki

Local poll, national impact

Nepalis across the country vote on Friday the 13th for municipal and ward councils, but its outcome may decide the fate of the governing...

Nepal goes to the polls

Campaigning for his daughter Renu Dahal in Bharatpur last week, Maoist leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal warned that if she did not win, Nepal would...

Shristi Karki

Thinking locally, acting locally

Konjyosom Rural Municpality is just 30km south of the Ring Road, but it might as well be the remotest village in the...

Coalition calculation

Three days after the Nepali Congress (NC) Central Working Committee announced it would leave it up to its local committees to decide...

Deputies drive development in rural Nepal

Gita Adhikari, the deputy mayor of Damak, quit her job as assistant campus chief of Damak Multiple Campus when she was nominated...

Local government by the people, for the people, of the people

In the five years since transitioning into the federal system, Nepal’s local governments have garnered much more trust among voters than the...