Nepali Democratic Alliance leader Sunil Bahadur Thapa, centre, greets attendees during an election campaign rally in Dhankuta district, some 400km, east of Kathamndu, yesterday. Nepal is gearing up for its first national elections this month and in December under the new constitution, introduced as part of the peace deal that ended the country’s Maoist insurgency, cementing its transformation from a monarchy to a secular federal state.

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