Nepal, July 7 -- Supremo KP Sharma Oli is an enigmatic person. First, he stealthily digs himself into a political hole, such as the one he had done in amending the Political Party Act through a hasty issuance of ordinances. Then he shouts that he has been pushed into the pit by his opponents acting in cahoots with foreign forces. Once he has been pulled out from the ditch with an external lifeline, he pats himself on the back for having saved the country.

The Supremo's time-tested tricks no longer distract from his failures on every front of governance. The Covid-19 pandemic is almost out of control. The economy is in shambles. The country is getting increasingly isolated on the diplomatic front as the ruling regime goes on putting all i...