This Constitutional Assembly (CA) election in Nepal was like a Pandora box, no one knew what was going to come out of it. First of all, it was peaceful than expected and secondly the preliminary results coming out is also baffling. It’s not that I support ideology of a certain leading party, I am surprised at the shift of political bases, like UML loosing in Katmandu where they previously were insurmountable. At the end, winner is the ‘democratic processes’ regardless of any party winning.
The regular online news sites/blogs from Nepal were so overloaded with the visitors that they crashed. This signifies two things: Nepalese living abroad have profound interest in this CA election, and this election failed to capture a very large voting bloc that lives outside the country. Although Nepalese living abroad didn’t get opportunity to vote in this election, I hope they do get chance in upcoming election. View full article »
