Click to play videoKathmandu: Kathmandu wears a deserted look a day before elections as migrant workers rush back home to vote, and make history.
In Nepal, sporadic violence is continuing ahead of key elections on Thursday that will bring an end to monarchy.
Durga Prasad - an office assistant in Kathmandu - is at the new bus stand buying a ticket to his hometown Napokhra but there are no buses available.
"I just came thinking I should get a bus easily but now I see there are no buses here," Prasad says.
That is because half of the 100 odd buses that ran from the stand in Kathmandu every day are out on the road at the busy bypass and on the highway.
The buses have been hired by the major political parties to ferry potential voters back to their homes and that too for free.
"I've talked to the Maoist party, they have promised to take me on their bus tomorrow." a taxi driver in Kathmandu says.
Others like Durga are paying for their ride. They too are returning home to vote,
Durga is just one of the thousands of migrants who're heading home in time to vote. Ticket sales are up, buses hard to come by and Kathmandu is fast emptying out in time for Thursday's poll.
So much so that the ticket clerks insist they're as busy now as they would be during Dussehra time.
But unlike Dussehra, Nepal doesn't see elections too often and the one on Thursday is coming after nine long and tumultuous years.
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