The weird electoral contest between UCPN (Maoist) chief Prachanda and Nepali Congress leader Ram Chandra Poudel for the post of prime minister scheduled to be held on August 2 is not surprising. This is a product of the defective constitution that Nepal has…
Political difficulties surrounding the resignation of Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal, despite the fact that he still holds a clear majority in the Constituent Assembly (CA), are more than obvious. What is not obvious is what is supposed to come next. In a…
"It is very dangerous to buy time looking for drastic changes in the balance of power in the country before letting the CA resume its work. To put it more categorically, any attempt towards helping a split in the UCPN (Maoist), supposedly to "rightsize" it in…
अन्नपूर्ण पोष्ट, आइतबारे परिशिष्टाक, ६ असार, २०६७ (संघीय मुलुक होस् या अन्य, संविधानको व्याख्या गर्ने कार्य भनेकै सर्वोच्च अदालतको हो । व्याख्याको भूमिका संसदीय समितिलाई दिनु न्यायप्रणाली समितिको मस्यौदाको कठोर पक्ष हो । न्यायप्रणाली कार्यकारिणी वा…
The position of prime minister in the model of democracy that Nepal is practicing is no longer powerful and exulted. He does have many powers, as far as theory goes, but he can exercise them only upon the aid and advice of others, seen or unseen in the formal…
Back to April 24, 2006 — the date has historical importance. If an unruly mass of people, ignoring the rule of law and the constitution, can force the reinstatement of the parliament which had long been dissolved, can't a similar protest pull the government…
फ्रान्सेली राजनीतिज्ञ पियार जोसेफ प्रोधोँलाई “अराजकवादका पिता” भनिन्थ्यो । उनलाई कानुन व्यवस्था वा सरकारमा विश्वास थिएन । उनी अतिवादी दृष्टिकोण राख्दथे । उनले एउटा बहुचर्चित किताब पनि लेखेका थिए । यसको नाम थियो ‘द कन्फेसन्स् अफ अ रिभोल्युसनरी’ – एउटा…
May 28 is quite close. The long awaited day when the new constitution of Nepal was expected to be promulgated is about to pass without any constitution being adopted and promulgated. This is not a serious concern at the moment though. The serious concern is…
Mao's tactics of guerrilla war were very simple: "The enemy advances, we retreat. The enemy camps, we harass. The enemy tires, we attack. The enemy retreats, we pursue." Mao did not envisage a peace process in the theory of his war; neither had he ever…