Nepal elections- Voting starts to elect the new parliament and the provincial assemblies. Voters will elect representatives to seven provincial assemblies. A total of 550 provincial assembly members will be elected directly, with 330 elected directly and 220 elected through the proportional method
The ruling alliance of the Nepali Congress party led by Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and some former Maoist rebels is contesting the general elections against the Nepal Communist Unified Marxist Leninist (UML) party.
This is the first time in Nepal's parliamentary history that elections will be held after the completion of an entire term of the parliament. Yet there is large-scale disillusionment and people have felt that these polls, too, will bring in the same old political leaders.
Nepal is set for elections on Monday, November 20 with political parties scrambling to beat each other on the plank of ultra-nationalism. The contest will be chiefly fought between moderately centrist Nepal Congress-led alliance and Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist Leninist, UML)-led alliance. The ruling coalition led by the Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba's Nepali Congress party is expected to win, according to reports from Kathmandu-based think tanks.