Prachanda's Politics On Rough Track?

In Nepali politics, if there is any politician who is facing big crisis, it is perhaps CPN-Maoist Centre chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda. After being kicked out of power, Prachanda is tackling unanticipated challenges from within and outside the party. It is a coincidence that Prachanda’s political fortune is on a downward spiral at a time when the transitional justice to victims of a decade-long Maoist insurgency, which Prachanda himself spearheaded, is heading to a logical conclusion. The former rebel leader, struggling to catch the last political straw, has become the victim of his own nemesis – a series of his strategic missteps marked by over smartness and sheer naivety. His moves to check the political descent are equally flawed and short-sighted.