Candidates ask yarsa pickers to stay back for polls but few are interested

Many people are in a hurry to go to the uplands this harvesting season since they haven’t been able to make the journey in the last two years because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

For Mani Krishna Bohora, a resident of Patarasi Rural Municipality in Jumla, it is time to go to the highlands to collect yarsagumba. He wants to head to the highlands as soon as possible but the candidates contesting the local elections have been insisting him not to, not before the local level polls take place on May 13.