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Voting with hopes for better results, better future

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KATHMANDU, MAY 13Despite the weather forecast, a clear, sunny morning greeted the day of local elections in the Capital. Nominations filed for local elections nationwide Sri Lanka's economic crisis dashes hopes for post COVID-19 tourism recovery Voters could be seen walking to the nearest polling booths as early as 7:00 am.

The polling booths were open from 7:00 am to 5:00 pm. The entire voting session proceeded with ease at Ward-10 and 31 of Kathmandu Metropolitan City.Most of the voters seemed to be experienced and rarely seemed to be confused or in the least bit intimidated.

This ease extended to the management at both the polling booths - Swapna Vatika School (for Ward- 10) and Gyan Niketan School (Ward-31) were well ordered.The majority of voters were middle-aged people.However, there were quite a number of the elderly, the sick, and the very young ones.

There were even young mothers, who brought their toddlers to the polling booths.One such voter, who wished to remain anonymous, mentioned how they had been voting for the past four elections.

"I do feel frustrated when I sometimes think about how my vote is not making a difference," the voter said, and added, "But this time there are candidates that I think will work towards the community's development and I wanted to come vote for them."Fifty-five-year-old Dhurba Kumar Shrestha added the importance of voting despite the frustrations and the disappointment he felt towards the political scenario of the country.

"I have been voting since I was 18, so it has been many years.

I haveseen many changes throughout this journey, in both the candidates' manifestos and the entire voting process.

I have also felt discouraged many times, like so many other citizens of the country," he said."But voting is a part of our democracy.

If we don't exercise our right to vote for our leaders, we have no need for democracy."Another anonymous voter expressed his discontent: "What does it matter if I vote or not.One vote cannot make a change, why should people be bothered to vote in spite of their maladies if there is not to be a change?"But like Shrestha there were many others who came to vote, despite their frustrations, in hopes of a better result and a better future.

"We are like the setting sun, our lives are almost already over,"Shrestha added.

"It is necessary that we vote for the right people.

Our votes will impact the future generations."A version of this article appears in the print on May 14, 2022, of The Himalayan Times. .

This article first appeared/also appeared in https://thehimalayantimes.com 




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