Empowered provinces can outperform the centre

Our provinces can’t work as they don’t even have civil servants and minimum resources. They cannot run with hands and legs tied.

Upendra Yadav , chairman of Janata Samajbadi Party Nepal, led the Madhesh uprising in 2007 that eventually heralded a federal Nepal. The new system however has been facing growing criticism, with the seven provinces taking the most flak. The Post ’s Thira Lal Bhusal talked to former deputy prime minister Yadav on how he sees the provinces and their prospects.