Nepali federal elections nd all the independents winning

Note for future me: I'm writing all of this in mid-November because I feel bad about not writing a thing during my VA trip.

Friend KP's father is running, and so are many independents -- the highest number in Nepal's history in fact. It's partly due to the strange decision for the congress and the maoist party to team up in the election, partly due to the fact that the other socialist party is corrupt morally and politically and partly due to the fact that upto this point everybody has been a massive disappointment and people seem to have finally decided that enough is enough and now they want real governance with real leaders who enact real policies and not museum pieces who have no idea about the state of the affairs of the world in general.

There's concerns of a hung parliament resulting from this election -- a wild but not unexpected result considering the last election had 2/3rds majority obtained by the unified communist party which very soon went on to break into a thousand pieces. And yeah, maybe a hung parliament is a potential outcome, but we cannot be held hostage to keep voting for those existing losers!