'Restoration of Nepal's monarchy will lead to political instability'
New Delhi, April 29 -- The restoration of Nepal's monarchy will only lead to political instability and will not be in the interest of both Kathmandu and New Delhi, former Nepalese prime minister Baburam Bhattarai said on Monday.
Bhattarai, who played a key role in Nepal's transformation from a monarchy to a republic in 2008 as a leader of the Maoist movement, pointed out that his country's monarchy was always autocratic and never constitutional.
He argued that pro-monarchy protests being witnessed in Nepal were triggered more by the current government's failure to deliver on people's expectations.
"How will the restoration of an autocratic monarchy in Nepal benefit India? It will only lead to instability. There is no [widespread] public sup...
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