Kathmandu, Feb. 22 -- Additional security forces have been deployed to districts outside Kathmandu valley, especially the southern plains of Nepal, to maintain security across nearly 11 thousand polling stations. More than 3 lakh security personnel, including police, Army, election police and more are tasked with ensuring a peaceful election process on March 5. These are the first elections being held after the Gen-z uprising which led to the resignation of former Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli

At the Nepal Police Academy in Kathmandu, over three thousand police personnel boarded buses as they started off for assigned districts to maintain security for the March 5 election.

"Except for Karnali, we are deploying personnel to the remaining ...