Underresourced Nepal Police becomes a borrower every election. It’s going to be the same in Nov also

Stating that there were not enough weapons for the local elections in May , Nepal Police repeatedly urged the government to provide the budget. But, the government did not heed the demand.

At the last moment, the then police chief Shailesh Thapa Chhetri asked the Nepal Army to lend 2,066 weapons. The two security agencies signed a memorandum of understanding, according to which the army provided 999 pistols to the police for the elections.