We can’t afford failure

Don’t micro-manage the Karki government. Trust it to function and provide constructive criticism.

Since the promulgation of the Constitution in 2015, the triumvirate of the leaders of the three largest parties, Sher Bahadur Deuba of the Nepali Congress (NC), KP Sharma Oli of the CPN-UML and Pushpa Kamal Dahal of the Maoist Centre, occupied the Office of Prime Minister several times in a shifting coalition. Under their watch, corruption in the country escalated to a new high and economic performance to a new low. The corrupt operated with impunity. They could do this because the Oli-Deuba-Dahal troika, during their time in office, progressively crippled the system of checks and balances by politicising all public institutions, including the judiciary; controlled the parliament by colluding with each other and denied the smaller parties’ calls for investigation of the corrupt. Gen Z’s eruption on September 8 was a response to years of this political perfidy. Their primary demand was the “end of corruption.”