Same old

The Karki government must be able to differentiate itself from the past nepotist and cronyist governments.

It has not even been three months since the Gen Z movement, with the main agenda of anti-corruption and good governance, installed former Chief Justice Sushila Karki as the prime minister of an interim election government. In these months, the government has been mired in controversies . News broke on Sunday that Prime Minister Karki’s chief private secretary, Adarsha Kumar Shrestha, had appointed his wife to a PM’s secretariat position. Previously, the interim government courted controversy over minister selection. The government also drew harsh criticism after Sabita Bhandari, who was appointed as the Attorney General by the Karki government. Misusing her office, Bhandari had decided not to prosecute Hope Fertility and Diagnostic Pvt Ltd, which had been accused of extracting eggs from 16–17-year-old girls without their guardians’ consent and selling them. She was a shareholder in the company, and she dropped the case despite this direct clash of interests.