Kailali-5 candidates’ promises focus on infrastructure, ignore climate crisis

Funding, timelines, and key details are missing for Fapla Cricket Stadium and Dhangadhi’s upgrade to metropolitan city.

As election campaigns heat up in Kailali Constituency 5, the political and economic hub of Sudurpaschim province, candidates are competing with ambitious pledges on health, education, sports and urban infrastructures. Amid promises to upgrade hospitals, build an international cricket stadium, and turn Dhangadhi into a metropolitan city, one issue is conspicuously absent—the climate crisis.