RSP: Rise and risks

Certain concepts floating in the orbit of political science may explain what is going on with RSP.

Rastriya Swatantra Party’s birth took place amid extreme apathy and disdain for the existing political parties. In the last three decades, the old parties, who were at one time harbingers of human dignity and freedom for the Nepali people, have now morphed to become political machines fraught with political patronage, nepotism and systemic corruption. Intense collective disappointment towards the old parties led to the RSP’s rise as a national party in such a short period. One, therefore, wonders why a party which supposedly stands to thwart the old decay and muck in politics is completely comfortable becoming a part of the old muck.