Nepal, March 6 -- The government calls the current session of the Parliament a "legislative session." But its priority is to turn the six ordinances it crafted in a hurry-promulgated by the President a few days before the winter session of the Parliament commenced-into law. The suit of ordinances also includes the controversial bill to regulate social media.

While critical of the ordinances, the opposition parties in the Parliament have a different priority. They want an independent commission to investigate all previous corruption cases. Political corruption is not new to Nepal. It happened during the Panchayat autocracy and continued after the restoration of democracy in 1990. But it has never been as widespread and as large in scale a...