A taste of his own medicine

Dahal now finds no one but himself to blame for the unsavoury situation he has led his party into.

The one lesson Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal seems to have forgotten even as he indulged in all manners of chicanery and machinations to stay in power was the simplest—two can play the same game. In his case, it was actually three but the end result was the same. For a public long wearied of his constant restlessness and the promise of even more instability, the universal reaction to the Oli-Deuba gang up against Dahal was either studied indifference or a feeling that justice has been served.