Development Takes A Backseat

It is during the election campaign that voters get opportunity to interact with and put forth their concerns before the visiting candidates. But this scribe, while visiting some districts in Bagmati and Gandaki provinces, has gathered impressions that the electorates were least concerned about development issues. With a couple of exceptions, they don't demand a better road, good health and education facilities or water supply. They don't have any agenda to put before the candidates contesting the elections for the members of the House of Representatives (HoR) and Provincial Assembly (PA).