Nepal parties exploit legal loopholes to destroy democracy at the local level

Mahadev Singh Dadal had just been elected the ward chair of Marma rural municipality-6 in Darchula in the 2017 local elections when he got a call from Lalit Singh Bohora, the district chair of the Nepali Congress. In the call, Bohora gave Dadal, a junior leader of the party, a few instructions.

“He told me to follow orders given by office assistant Amar Singh Kotari. But, I refused to do so,” says Dadal.