Cooperatives victims don’t fully trust parties to refund their lost savings

Thousands of cooperatives depositors across Nepal remain trapped in uncertainty as they fail to recover their savings.

As the election winds sway people in Jhapa, a disabled elderly woman from the eastern district remains unmoved. Benumaya Katuwal, 60, has no permanent home in the district’s constituency-5, where former mayor of Kathmandu Metropolitan City and senior Rastriya Swatantra Party leader Balendra (Balen) Shah has challenged CPN-UML chair and former prime minister KP Sharma Oli in the March 5 polls.