What’s in the sinister deal?

The oppressed are beginning to worry that the Congress-UML pact is a conspiracy to curtail their rights and privileges.

A week ago, on July 2, at midnight, Nepali Congress president Sher Bahadur Deuba and Communist Party of Nepal-UML chairperson KP Sharma Oli struck a deal to form an alliance to rule the country. The two largest parties in Parliament secretly agreeing to form a ruling coalition is an anomaly for any democracy. More worryingly, the nation is still kept in the dark about the terms of the agreement.