HELLO NEPAL

  Committing genocide? The government’s recent decision not to provide costs related to test and treatment of Covid-19 to general public, infected people have stopped visiting health service outlets. This situation will rapidly increase the number of virus infected persons in the coming days. In fact, contact tracing of the infected people in the earlier days was also not effective. Health professionals and experts opine that the government’s decision not to pay for tests and treatment of Covid-19 for the citizens could lead to massive spread of the virus in the community. The people have now stopped visiting the health centres for tests and treatment following the government’s unconstitutional decision. The government seems to be staying away from its constitutional responsibility of providing basic health services and providing free treatment for pandemic diseases to general public. It has even disrespected Supreme Court’s recent directives asking it to provide free health ...

  No desire to become prime minister While I was going through the Kathmandu Post of various dates,  I noticed an interesting article by Anil Giri published on February 14, 2020 about Pushpa Kamal Dahal aka Prachanda, Chairperson of Nepal Communist Party (CPM), I could not resist myself for sharing in my blog for my regular readers. Without elaborating this article, I decided to summarize only the main events which are included in Anil Giri’s article.   The chairman has an identity crisis Pushpa Kamal Dahal is torn between his two selves: an insidious, crafty Prachanda who will go on the offensive to get what he wants, and a gentle, pragmatic Pushpa Kamal who can placate opposing factions and win over the media. Pushpa Kamal Dahal is a man divided. At the final session of Kantipur Conclave last week, Pushpa Kamal, dressed in a dark suit with a matching topi and a silk tie, appeared relaxed and confident, speaking at length about himself, his journey and his ambi...

  Is federalism still suitable for Nepal? I am and was not against the concept of federalism. I only kept raising my concern whether it was suitable for such a small country considering its geographical structure and available financial and human resources. I still think that there were not held extensive deliberations about this structure among the constitutional experts, intellect individuals and general public before the then seven party alliance decided to adapt and include in the new constitution. As a result, we used to and still hear even some of the leaders of the major political parties were not in favour of implementing federal structure, however, they did not dare to face their bosses. Until now, several laws and acts related to implementation of provincial governments in accordance with the constitution are yet to be tabled in and pass through the House which is the sole constitutional responsibility of the federal government led by the Prime Minister K.P.Oli who is...