A magnificent implosion

The least that is expected of the leaders is that they follow a minimum standard of dignity.

It was inevitable, the fragmentation of the Nepal Communist Party. The way the two factions within the party, led by KP Sharma Oli and Pushpa Kamal Dahal respectively, had been going at each other's throats in the past few months, it was just a matter of time before they parted ways. And yet it is strange, even ugly, that the party that had got the most unequivocal popular mandate in Nepal's political history to run the government and steer the country towards a prosperous future, imploded magnificently. With its implosion, the party has put to rest the people's desire to see a singular party run the country for a full term, unlike in the past when one minority government fell after another and horse trading in politics was the order of the day.