Ranju Darshana is doing something else.“Don’t you want to enjoy the youth of your life?”“I get enough pleasure from my work. You do not necessarily need to watch a movie or spend time at a cafe to enjoy the life,” says Darshana who is one of the candidates for Kathmandu’s Mayor in the upcoming elections.It was four years ago that she developed her interest in politics. She would follow daily news after getting up early in the morning, just to know if there’s a bandh. She says she was grown sick of all politicians and their parties.“I was looking for a party that could give us hope.” One day, while was roaming an alley in her neighbourhood, she found a small card with a smiley face. The card had just three words: Bibeksheel Nepali Party. On Bibeksheel’s website was a notice: “Let’s raise the voice for Nepal to remain open.” Darshana joined the anti-bandh event the next day at Maharajgunj Chowk. It was the first day of her political career. She says the single-most important event in her life was related to her plight when getting her citizenship. She had thought of changing the ‘system’ when denied a certificate in her mother’s name just because her parents were divorced before she was born. “My mother never made me miss my father,” she says, “But, the state did.”
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