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Tag: nepali-politics

  • Respected Lawabiding People….

    A close look at the political speeches: Boring they might be, but speeches are necessary during this season of the Constituent Assembly elections. Demand for highprofile orators is increasing. By Dinesh Wagle Wagle Street Journal [Nepali version of this story will appear in tomorrow’s Koseli of Kantipur daily. A shorter version of the story will…

  • Nepal: A Troubled State (Analyzing the Latest Turmoil)

    Update: The government has taken back the decision to hike the fuel prices this afternoon. As soon as government decision reached the streets, the protests started to subside. …………. Empirical study method is used to prepare the following article, which tries to diagnose the current incidences, leading to public unrest and strike, of the past…

  • So This is Nepal: Protests Against Fuel Price Hike Continue

    So this is the state of affairs in Kathmandu and rest of urban Nepal: Normal life in the capital and different parts of the country have been crippled on the second consecutive day (today) due the demonstrations staged by students, trade unionists affiliated to the ruling parties and even commoners to press the government to…

  • Filthy Face of Koirala: Sujata in the Cabinet

    Sujata Koirala is the female counterpart of Paras in Nepali Congress politics. Girija Prasad Koirala, the octogenarian leader of the historic April 2006 revolution occasionally displays the wicked side of his face that is splashed with greed, hunger for power, nepotism and favoritism. Today we saw the same dirty face of the Prime Minister who…

  • For Prachanda, Nepal With King In Palace Is A Republic

    Maoist Supremo Prachanda today claimed that a new era has begun with the ‘legitimate end of the monarchy’. Referring to yesterday’s decision of the interim parliament, the Maoist Chairman added that now a new era had dawned with the end of the monarchy. [Maoists submit names of its ministers: read here] Third Amendment of Interim…

  • Nepal a Republic? Not Yet. Cool Down Comrades. Don't Party!

    I am shocked, genuinely shocked, to see the Maoists partying and celebrating yesterday’s 23-point deal by equating that to the declaration of a republic. By Dinesh Wagle Wagle Street Journal Almost 98 days after the Maoist ministers’ withdrawal from the cabinet, the Prime Minister today “accepted” their resignations. Prachanda has said that the party will…

  • Maoists Got What They Wanted: "Roundtable Conference!"

    The Latest: SPA seal 22-point agreement, Maoists to rejoin govt (read here) Emerging from the interaction, CPN Maoist Chairman Prachanda told reporters (pic) that the conference was in fact the roundtable conference his party had been demanding. –a news report. >>>Interesting remarks by the comrade! So that was what all Maoist hue and cry of…