Nepal, Jan. 4 -- It is a season of elections in South Asia. Bangladesh and Bhutan are set to conduct their general elections this month, and Pakistan in February. India is expected to hold it in April and May; Sri Lanka, too, is expected to hold it this year.

The Maldives held two elections in September, after which the opposition coalition, Progressive Alliance, took over. Transition in all the countries every five years through an electoral process now appears to be entrenched even though the election process has remained flawed in some countries where the opposition has questioned the integrity of the electoral process. In Bangladesh, for instance, the main opposition, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), rejects the electoral body...