Of political parties and leaders

The binary of democrats and communists is the most commonly used expression in Nepali political parlance.

I would use the word calculation to characterise the politics of Nepal today. In a little different idiom current in recent times, we may even call it the algorithm of Nepali politics. Power sharing political parties of the ruling alliance work out the mathematics of occupying the ministerial posts commensurate with the number of seats they have won in Parliament. We wake up each day to stories of the quotas of ministerial posts for different parties making up the ruling alliance. The power of each party is calculated in terms of the leverage it will have on the vote of confidence for the government. The operation of a hung Parliament should be understood in a simple process. But the Nepali political parties have charged the mathematics with haste, short-sightedness, individual angst and the sense of insecurity of some prominent leaders made more complex by the visions of the nascent leaders.