Locals of Tingla in Necha Salya Rural Municipality-6 of Solukhumbu district did not turn up to cast votes in the parliamentary and provincial elections on Sunday. The Election Commission is conducting first phase of federal and provincial elections in 32 mountain and hill districts today. The voting will be held from 7 am to 5 pm.

Expressing dissatisfaction over the restructuring of local bodies, they had also boycotted the recently concluded local level elections.

“We will not cast our votes. This is our joint stance,” local Nain Bahadur Karki told over phone.

There are 2,476 voters in Tingla. Tingla floks a week ago had decided to boycott the elections.