Show, don’t tell

If Dahal is committed to accountability and transparency, he must first embody those traits.

CPN (Maoist Centre) chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal has yet again made the call. At the party central committee meeting that concluded on Tuesday, the party supremo asked central and provincial committee members to submit the details of their incomes as well as income sources. Dahal issued the instruction after some leaders at the meeting questioned the unusual change in living standards and lifestyles of a section of Maoists after they joined mainstream politics in 2006. Maoist leaders accumulating disproportionate amounts of property have attracted public criticism, thus eroding the image of the former rebel party.