Do what is right for democracy

This is an opportunity for Prime Minister Deuba to redeem himself from his controversial past.

"How is the Deuba government doing?" I asked a friend who had just returned from a month-long visit to Nepal. "Okay, I suppose," he said. "You know there is not much expectation from Deuba. He has been there, and people know him." The cynicism beckons to Sher Bahadur Deuba's past record, four times as prime minister—opportunist, controversial, ineffective and ethically compromised. Is anything going to be different this time around?