Kathmandu, Jan. 24 -- The Nepal Communist Party (NCP) government completes two years in power next month. Despite its strong majority, the party's performance has been underwhelming.
It may look like the NCP is just lurching from one embarrassing cockup to another. But there are signs the party may have A Plan. That all along, it has been aiming not for 'stability and prosperity', but for the extension of control, the stiffling of dissent, the intimidation of critics, the muzzling of the media and the constriction of civil society. There is even a systematic strategy in place to roll back the development gains of the past decades.
Given that power is centralised in Baluwatar, the plan is obviously being hatched at the Prime Minister's Of...