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National Assembly Chairman Ganesh Prasad Timilsina cast his vote at the Pashupati Secondary School 'A' polling booth in Ramja-7 of Modi Rural Municipality on Sunday. Speaking to the media after casting vote, he urged all the voters to exercise their right to vote with confidence in the elections being held to elect the new people's representatives. Earlier, Chief Returning Officer Anand Prasad Shrestha started the voting process throughout the district by casting the first vote in Parbat. He voted for the proportional representation (PR) system at the temporary polling booth in Kushma.

Former prime minister and chairman of the CPN (Maoist Centre) Pushpa Kamal  Dahal signed the Anti-Tobacco Pledge, campaigned by NDRI. In the signing  ceremony, he expressed his solidarity with the initiative.  Similarly, general secretary of Nepali Congress, Gagan Thapa also signed the pledge.

The world must not engage in “population alarmism” as the number of people living on Earth nears 8 billion, a senior UN official has said, The Guardian reported. The global population is projected to reach that milestone on 15 November, with some commentators expressing worries about the impact of the growing number on a world already struggling with huge inequality, the climate crisis, and conflict-fuelled displacement and migration. However, Dr Natalia Kanem, executive director of the UN Population Fund(UNFPA), urged countries not to panic but instead focus on helping the women, children and marginalised people who were most vulnerable to demographic change. “I realise this moment might not be celebrated by all. Some express concernsthat our world is overpopulated, with far too many people and insufficient resources to sustain their lives. I am here to say clearly that the sheer number of human lives is not a cause for fear,” she said. Kanem said that if governments focused on the numbers alone they ran the risk of imposing population controls that had been shown by history to be “ineffective and even dangerous”. “From forced sterilisation campaigns to restrictions on family planning and contraception, we are still reckoning with the lasting impact of policies intended to reverse, or in some cases to accelerate, population growth,” she said. “And we cannot repeat the egregious violations of human rights … that rob women of their ability to decide whether [or] when to become pregnant, if at all. Population alarmism: it distracts us from what we should be focused on.” As a result of falling birthrates, the pace of worldwide population growth, which reached a recorded peak at just over 2% a year in the late 1960s, has now fallen below 1%. However, the global picture is more varied than ever before. The UN estimates that about 60% of people live in countries with fertility levels below the recognised replacement level (when a population exactly replaces itself from one generation to the next) of an average of 2.1 births for every woman, according to The Guardian. At the other end of the spectrum, just eight countries, including Nigeria, Ethiopia and the Philippines, are forecast to account for half of all population growth by 2050. One of those countries, India, is expected to pass China from next year and become the world’s most populous country.  

CPN (Maoist Center) Chairman and former prime minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has said the only agenda of the ruling alliance was good governance and development. He believed that once the alliance was ensured victory, it would form stable governments from province to federal levels. Addressing an election assembly organized by the democratic-left alliance at Rainas Municipality-4 in the district on Monday, Chairman Dahal argued, "There is a public wave for the alliance. It will bring political stability." The election this time has much significance because it is chiefly the battle between two forces- those for regression and those for progression. Chairman Dahal reminded that Nepali Congress and the Maoist party had made huge contributions to the peace process. He viewed that the construction of a corridor along Chepe, Dordi, Marsyangdi, Madi and Madi will assure elevation of people's lifestyle in Lamjung. On the occasion, senior leader of the Nepali Congress, Ramchandra Poudel, said it was the country's need to forge an electoral alliance, so the alliance party cadres must vote for the alliance candidates. According to him, the political change has ensured Singh Durbar in each village- to dalits, indigenous community, women and backward groups. The constitution must be made sustainable for the country's development, he underscored.