Holier than thou

Top political leaders can’t deflect queries about their conduct with base emotional appeals.

If there is one thing Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has harped on time and again since he took office a year ago, it is the good-old rhetoric of sushashan , or good governance. Hardly a week passes by without the prime minister promising to curb corruption and punish the corrupt. But now, with the controversial exit of Axiata drawing the attention of Parliament's State Affairs and Good Governance Committee, the prime minister has himself come under the corruption radar.