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Yuba Nath Lamsal The agreement reached between four major political forces had instilled optimism among the people that the country would be rid of protracted crisis and deadlock. These forces namely, the UCPN-Maoist, the Nepali Congress, CPN-UML and Madhesi Front, had unanimously arrived at a conclusion that the fresh election as the only solution to the present political crisis and they collectively agreed to go for the polls. But it soon fizzled out as different parties started interpreting the agreement differently in a narrow partisan perspective. In a democracy, elections are said to be the best democratic practices. It is through election, people articulate their opinion and verdict on the national issues. If we go by the general practice, political parties and candidates, prior to the election, make their stance on certain national issues clear and present their overall policies and programmes. Eligible citizens vote to certain candidate or parties based on their v...

Nepal's politics going out of parties’ control Yuba Nath Lamsal The agreement reached between four major political forces had instilled optimism among the people that the country would be rid of protracted crisis and deadlock. These forces namely, the UCPN-Maoist, the Nepali Congress, CPN-UML and Madhesi Front, had unanimously arrived at a conclusion that the fresh election as the only solution to the present political crisis and they collectively agreed to go for the polls. But it soon fizzled out as different parties started interpreting the agreement differently in a narrow partisan perspective. In a democracy, elections are said to be the best democratic practices. It is through election, people articulate their opinion and verdict on the national issues. If we go by the general practice, political parties and candidates, prior to the election, make their stance on certain national issues clear and present their overall policies and programmes. Eligible citizens vo...

Yuba Nath Lamsal The world is interlinked and interdependent. No single country in the world is fully self-reliant on everything.   However powerful and developed it may be, no country can survive and prosper in isolation. International links and relations are necessary not only for its own survival and security but also for overall progress and development. This is how foreign policy was evolved. The policy that a country devises to deal with other countries or international institutions is called foreign policy. Every country has its own interests, strategy and goals and it accordingly devises foreign policy to serve its interests. Different countries have different strategy for survival and different interests with different countries. Thus, countries have their own foreign priority and perspective. The art of pursuing the interest with other country is diplomacy through which foreign policy is conducted. Diplomacy is like an intrigued game of chessboard in which a ...

Yuba Nath Lamsal Recently, the ceremonial President appears to be more active in our national politics. So far, he has not taken any decision but is only trying to persuade the political parties to agree on a common point for ending the political deadlock that the country has seen especially after the demise of the Constituent Assembly. In the period of one month, President Yadav has convened two all-party meetings in which he passionately called upon political parties to forge consensus on the future political course of the country. And he is in consultation with people from the cross section of society including lawyers, constitutional experts, former judges, individual leaders of political parties, rights activists and civil society members. These events have taken place every day, which have made the President virtually busy round the clock. Apparently, there should not be any objection from any section or sector on the efforts made by the President for national consensus o...