Months after a deadly uprising, Nepalis are again lining up -- not to demonstrate, but to register to vote and potentially run in the election they helped bring about.

"We must have new faces in the election," said Kishori Karki, a 25-year-old law graduate, who is not only a first time voter but also applied to register a new party for March 2026 polls.

She is among the young Nepalis stepping forward as candidates in a political system long dominated by familiar, ageing faces.

Footage of Karki taking an injured demonstrator to hospital on a motorbike -- on the first day of protests that toppled the government -- was among the many videos that went viral.

The September 8-9 demonstrations, initially triggered by anger over a brief government ban on social media, were spearheaded by prote

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