Power Politics Detrimental To Stability

The personal self-expression in Nepali politics is animated by the passion of top leaders for apex governmental power and an interest to keep their grip on it through leveraging in other parties while strengthening strong patronage networks. The aspiration of Deputy Prime Minister Upendra Yadav, chairman of Janata Samajwadi Party (JSP) to become Prime Minister by unsettling the current coalition government of CPN-UML, Moist Centre, Rastriya Swotantra Party (RSP), JSP and the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Socialist) for an alternative political equation comprising NC, JSP and CPN (United Socialist) led the split of his own party and the beginning of cracks in its power base. Party leaders from both sides view this political casualty more as a result of an internal power struggle for leadership than the penetration of the geopolitical game though they did not rule out the role of the establishment to split it for the sake of survival of the present coalition government.