MYAGDI, May 12: Locals of Simkos and Bagargaun of Dhawalagiri Rural Municipality in Myagdi district are forced to walk on foot for three days to exercise their voting rights.
It takes altogether three days for locals of remote Simkos and Bagargaun to reach the nearest voting centers and return home.
Tikapur locals 'counting the days to the elections'
A local Chitra Bahadur Tilija said that they leave home one day before the voting and reach the voting center on the second day and return home on the third day.
"We leave home one day before the voting and stay at Naura in the night. Then we reach the voting centers and cast our votes on the second day and arrive home on the third day," he said.
There are only 50 households in Simkos and Bagargaun. Voting center for Simkos and Bagar has been determined at Buddhi Bikash Secondary School, Mudi. There are more than 100 voters. Only 57 people had cast their votes in previous local level elections. Senior citizens and persons with disabilities face additional hardships reaching the voting center as the voting center is very far from their locality.
