No populist leader in Nepal’s current power structure, says Mehta

Indian political scientist Pratap Bhanu Mehta says he doesn’t see radical anti-elitism in Nepal.

Over the past decade or so, ‘populism’ has become a popular byword among academics globally to describe the complexities of world politics, especially after the rise of authoritarian leaders like Narendra Modi in India and Donald Trump in the United States. Does Nepal’s Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli fit the same mould as Modi and Trump?