Provincial bottlenecks

The crises in provinces arise from the duplicity of political parties.

Nepal's adoption of federalism was never a wrong move. We needed it to devolve power to the periphery and democratise governance, and we have had a decent track record on these fronts. Despite the successes, we have also had some damning consequences of federalism—the devolution of coalition culture that is the hallmark of government formation at the federal centre. This has given an excuse to the critics of federalism to claim that it is an unsuitable and unsustainable governance model.