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The Himalayan Times

21 November 2019

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In Nepal’s seven-decade-long political history, its people have experienced many political, economic and social changes, from the Panchayat era to multiparty democratic system to Republic Nepal. Political instability continued to plague the nation until 2015 when the new constitution was promulgated and three tiers of elections were held as per the constitution and the three level of governments were put in place. Most of these governments are run by the Nepal Communist Party (NCP) since the last two years but not to the satisfactions of the common people even when Nepal is said to have finally entered the political stability phase.

We have seen in the past that some of the decisions of the subsequent governments were not respected by the incoming governments for some reasons or without citing any reasons. Many infrastructure and social development projects were badly hampered due to such tendencies. It seemed that if a past government made any decision that was appreciated and welcomed by the common people, it was either rejected or scrapped by the incoming government. 

The then government led by Sher Bahadur Deuba had made pro-people decision to provide Rs. 5,000 in monthly livelihood allowances to patients suffering from kidney failure, cancer and paralysis, and even 27 patients had received such allowances. The NCP government put on hold this allowance since it came to power two years ago. “Kidney patients demand allowance” (THT, December 19, Page 2). It was very unfortunate to see these patients who are suffering from life threatening diseases coming out into the streets demanding the government provide their monthly livelihood allowances.

Rai Biren Bangdel

Maharajgunj