Don't even think about it

Political adventurism to scrap secularism and federalism will backfire.

It is no secret that Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli is sceptical about federalism and secularism. The cat is out of the bag yet again, this time through what could be termed a formal attempt at relinquishing the two fundamental tenets of the 2015 Constitution of Nepal. On Saturday, during the CPN-UML’s Central Committee meeting, youth leader Mahesh Basnet proposed reviewing the constitutional provisions of federalism and secularism,