Strong government, weak opposition

RSP’s historic mandate promises stability but analysts doubt a weak opposition can hold it accountable.

In the general elections held on March 5, the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) bagged a staggering 182 seats in the 275-member House of Representatives. The RSP’s landslide victory is reminiscent of the two-thirds majority achieved by the Nepali Congress in 1959, when it won 74 out of 109 seats in the first parliamentary elections in Nepal.