Nepal, July 7 -- Nepal as a nation-state once again reels under a debilitating political flux in addition to the unspeakable suffering unleashed by the Covid-19 global pandemic. The presence of the government in ameliorating the people's economic and social hardships including the ones added by the pandemic is felt nowhere. The current government of the Nepal Communist Party headed by Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has rendered the state system dysfunctional, largely derailed democracy, and for all practical purposes, sent the 'republican' constitution into a coma.

The culmination of inefficiencies of the two-and-a-half-year-old Oli government has glaringly manifested itself as the Covid-19 crisis deepens. The average infection rate has cr...