The oligarchy celebrates local polls

The fundamental appeal of municipal polls lies in their ideological vacuity.

Once feared as a fierce guerrilla leader, Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal has failed to realise that the offer of carrot works better than the threat of sticks in luring the electorate into voting for one's candidate. Thundering from Bharatpur, Dahal had warned that the country would plunge into a disaster if Nepali Congress supporters didn't vote for his daughter.