Way out of the quagmire

It is time for young reformists to join either of the two parties, depending on their ideologies, en masse and push for change from within.

Since the overthrow of the Rana oligarchy in 1950, Nepal has experimented with several governance models: multi-party democracy under an active monarchy (1950-1960); the Panchayat System aka dictatorial monarchy (1960 -1990); multi-party democracy with constitutional monarchy (1990-2008) and democratic republic (since 2008). The goal of these experiments was to change Nepali society from heretofore poor, unequal, and exploitative to prosperous, democratic, equal and socially just. A new model followed when the preceding model failed to usher in the change.