KATHMANDU: As Nepal went to the polls on Thursday, the country's Gen Z voters - many of whom participated in the Sept protests that reshaped the country's politics - turned out in large numbers for the snap parliamentary elections, with students and young workers queueing outside polling booths set up in schools, temples, community gathering spaces. Many travelled for days across the Himalayan country to reach their constituencies.
Kathmandu's roads were largely empty after the Election Commission of Nepal enforced its routine election-day vehicle ban, leaving voters to walk the last stretch to polling stations.
