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Nepal deployed thousands of troops astir the state connected Wednesday (February 4, 2026) to boost information up of the archetypal elections since past year's deadly protests toppled the erstwhile government.
In total, 300,000 information unit and impermanent predetermination constabulary were being sent retired successful the pb up to the March 5 vote, an summation from erstwhile polls.
"We person deployed much information unit successful this predetermination to marque information arrangements much effectual and to guarantee the upcoming predetermination is just and secure," Ananda Kafle, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Home Affairs, told AFP. "Security wise, we are intact," said Mr. Kafle.
An interim authorities has been moving the state since anti-corruption protests successful September led to the resignation of veteran Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli.
Seventy-seven radical were killed and thousands of buildings, including authorities properties, Parliament and courts, were torched oregon damaged successful 1 of the most convulsive episodes of unrest successful Nepal successful caller years. Nearly 80,000 of the full deployed are Army troops, Nepal's Army spokesperson Raja Ram Basnet told AFP.
Tens of thousands of young Nepalis person besides applied for impermanent policing jobs to assistance with logistical tasks specified arsenic managing queues astatine polling stations. The Army volition chiefly behaviour aerial patrols, oversee ballot container proscription and supply information during ballot counting.
A period since Gen Z protests, Nepal faces a pugnacious roadworthy to antiauthoritarian reform
Almost two-thirds of Nepal's colonisation of astir 30 cardinal radical volition beryllium eligible to ballot adjacent period successful polls that volition find the make-up of the country's Parliament and which enactment tin signifier a government.
Nepal's Election Commission has said it is acceptable to clasp the predetermination arsenic planned contempt concerns implicit upwind conditions successful high-altitude Himalayan regions.
