Beyond promises, toward reform

Real reform requires clear commitments to transform institutions—not only change leaders.

In a recent column of The Economist , a story, ‘anger is deadly to moderate politicians’ elaborates humiliation management as a central task for successful states and warns that diffusing public anger carries the risk of voters’ disapproval. In Nepal, with elections around the corner, the old political parties have just witnessed massive anger against them during September’s Gen Z movement. They might be afraid of negative tides being raised against them because their promise of basic service delivery remains unfulfilled. Moreover, they have failed to treat the citizens with dignity or provide state amenities with equal access to all, especially to the people who live on the fringes.