Nepal PM hopeful eyes ‘change’ in post-uprising elections

SARLAHI: Nepali student leader-turned-politician Gagan Thapa has sought to rejuvenate his party’s stale image, campaigning on generational change ahead of the Himalayan nation’s first elections since a deadly youth-led uprising.“We need energy for Nepal’s change,” the 49-year-old aspiring prime minister told AFP, saying his candidacy represented a break from decades of rule by a tight-knit and aging elite.The country of 30 million people will head to the polls on Thursday, following a wave of protests in September in which 77 people were killed, and parliament and hundreds of other buildings w

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