Insulating sentiments from hurt

We must learn to become more tolerant and inclusive to strengthen our democracy.

In 2017, as the parliamentary elections drew closer, Sher Bahadur Deuba warned people that if they voted the communists to power, they would be forbidden from crying. Using communism as a boogeyman, he tried to scare the citizenry, urging them to vote for the Congress party, projecting it as a democratic party allowing people to exercise their agency.