KATHMANDU, March 10: A total of 71 youths under the age of 40 years have been elected in the recently held House of Representatives (HoR) elections.
According to the Election Commission, the youths under 40 make up 43.03 percent of the directly elected candidates who will be representing as lawmakers in the upcoming parliament. Out of them, four are from Gen Z age groups.
In the previous election of 2022, only 10 youths under the given age groups were elected for HoR. The figure this time has increased seven-folds.
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Out of the total number of elected youths, 62 are from the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) alone. The RSP has won 125 seats for HoR.
Nepali Congress (NC) is second in the row, by getting five youths elected from the political party. The NC has won 18 seats in the direct elections.
Similarly, two youth candidates from the CPN-UML, one from the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP), and one from the Shram Sanskriti Party (SSP) have won the elections. However, not a single youth has been elected from the Nepali Communist Party.
Likewise, 10 of the elected candidates are in the age between 25-30 years. Prasant Upreti of RSP is the youngest, who won from Makwanpur-2.
Manish Khanal-26, Sulav Kharel-28, Nisha Dangi-29, Sasmit Pokharel-29, Ramji Yadav-30, Shiva Shankar Yadav-30, Ranju Darshana-30 and Sovita Gautam-30 have won their HoR seats from the RSP. Aren Rai at 29 represents the SSP and has been elected from Khotang.
Among the elected HoR members, NC’s Tek Bahadur Gurung and independent candidate Mahabir Pun are 71 years old.
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