Imagine a village without communication facilities like telephone, radio, etc. The only primary school in the village opens hardly three months a year. Due to travel time taken for voting which is almost two days up and down, villagers are reluctant to take initiative. Here we try to unfold a story of a remote hilly village in the far-western district, Bajura.

-Prakash Singh: Centre For Investigative Journalism

While election slogans of introducing metro trains, trams, and free WiFi have been reverberated in the urban areas, including Kathmandu; slogans of electricity, construction of roads and earthquake-destroyed houses have drawn inspiration of the disparate voters in the mountainous region.

-Navaraj Mahatara (Humla), Anu Acharya (Rasuwa),Sujata Tamanga (Solukhumbu): Centre for Investigative Journalism

Election slogan of "casting vote for one's desired candidate without fear" has been a showy publicity for Dalits and poor people of Bajhang. Life of Dalits is crushing and with no control over their living conditions. Their concern is: "Imagine our fate if we cast our vote against landlord's desire when we are compelled to take their permission on trivial issues."

-Basanta Pratap Singh : Centre for Investigative Journalism -Nepal 

While mayoral candidates in Kathmandu were busy making tall promises of free Wi-Fi, construction of metro rails and smart cities; Dalit women candidates of Saptari seemed to be visibly clear and pragmatic in their slogans of ending caste-based discrimination. Their slogans are unpretentious: "Ensuring hassle-free entry in temples, sharing meals with so-called upper class, acquiring relevant documents (birth certificates), and school enrolment for children, among others."

Mina Sharma: Centre for Investigative Journalism-Nepal