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| December 06, 2017

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THE RECORD December 6, 2017

Supriya Manandhar

The mountainous village of Tingla in Solukhumbu, with roughly 3,000 voters, boycotted the local and provincial elections of 2017. Under the leadership of Bal Kumar Karki, a 22 year old youth, the Tingla Sangharsha Samiti (Struggle Committee) has been opposing the Local Bodies Restructuring Commission’s decision to place Tingla in Necha Salyan rural municipality. Tingla, […]

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