By Dwaipayan Regmi, TON, Nepal

Election Commissioner's Chief Dinesh Kumar Thapliya stated in the press briefing that there was 61 percent of voters as per preliminary data meaning that 39 percent were out of it. Although it was stated that this is lesser than what was expected, the election was believed to be successful. In the election of 2017, there had been 68 percent of voters there. In the press briefing, it was stated that the elections were held successfully throughout the country except for just a few minor incidents of violence. It was further explained that there were 15 polling booths in four districts where elections were postponed. There was the death of one person and two people were injured in the Bajura district when security personnel opened fire at the polling station. In the briefing, it was further explained that there were government employees who were deployed for poll duty for arresting those who created trouble at the time of the election and were provoked in taking action against them under the Election Offence and Punishment Act.

In those places where elections were postponed, elections will be held within the next couple of days. Election Commission has planned to count FPTP ballot papers along with a proportional representation of ballot papers in simultaneous order. Ballot papers are being transported to the election office in districts and right now it is in the process of counting.

There have been different thoughts and ideas about the election result. While there lies a belief regarding the victory of the ruling party at one end, there also lies expectations from other parties. Social media has widely been in support of independent candidates as there has been major support from the public towards them. The election for parliament and provincial assembly. which was conducted on Sunday have been successful to a larger extent. The reality behind the election has been regarded as the gift of democracy with such immense participation. It was asked to be celebrated as it is a huge festival there by the political parties.

The results are likely to come out in a gradual process from very now and Nepal's hot topic will be about the discussion regarding the same. The two alliance made by the ruling party and the opposition party has to be experimented with through the result. So, while the Congress-led alliance supported by CPN Maoists was at one end there was KP Oli led alliance of UML with support from the Rastriya Prajatantra Party at the other end. Although the two alliances have collaborated with two different perspectives, what can clearly be tracked here had been entirely different. Whether or not the general public will like and support such an alliance has been on the major agenda there. There are equal possibilities for big faces to face defeat because of divided votes.

The preliminary projections made by various media have been stating that independent candidates will hold equal strength and charm at this time there. The strength of independent candidates was seen previously in the local election too, and that gave hope to a large number of candidates at this time here. The results of the election will determine the political move that Nepal will go through at this time. The shape of Government formation, participation and power division will all be determined through the results. At this time, not only the public but even the big parties and big leaders have been passionately waiting for the result. With the initiation of the counting process, there will be the participation of the candidate's representative who will be seeking the result there. And, gradually the aspects will be considered.

On the other side, what can be traced here was that the interest and hopes out of political consequences had been in diminishing line. This was seen through the process under which movements were carefully categorized here. The whole process seemed to be within the troublesome line because diminishing hopes and increasing complexities – where youths from Kathmandu hesitated to go to their place just to cast vote was something that had to be taken with seriousness there.

The counting process is on, and the result can be forecasted gradually.