Provincialising political instability

Balloting alone can be inadequate to gauge the aspirations of the people.

If the post-federalism slogan 'Gaun-gaun ma Singha Durbar' has not yet materialised in the administrative domain, the division in the ruling Nepal Communist Party has most certainly seeped all the way to the local levels across the country. In response to Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli's Lower House dissolution on December 20, the Pushpa Kamal Dahal-Madhav Kumar Nepal faction of the party filed no-confidence motions against Bagmati Province Chief Minister Dormani Poudel and Province 1 Chief Minister Sherdhan Rai on December 25 and 27 respectively.