Nepali politics has begun to take more emotional swings than the ideological and political projections that guided earlier discussions and actions. Judging from the performance of some of the major characters, if not all, we can see the following. The overplayed bravado seems to be the character of some political leaders of the major parties.
Though the leaders sound emotional and superbly ideological in their party-related speeches, they are torn between dreams and realities as never before. The sense of futurity and the dream plans for the country of some intelligent political leaders are mired in their narratives of conduct and misguided ambitions. Their intellectual and policy documents are few and far between.
Evoking fear, emotion and threat appears to be the common style. However, it would be wrong to conclude that the entire political system and the modus operandi of all the political leaders possess this character. I would like to mention some occasions to enter the subject, which is the changing character of Nepali politics on some important scores.
Political scientists and historians have been writing on this. History says Nepali political parties came into existence by choosing certain political ideologies as the guiding principles. The broad division line was between the social democratic principles and communist ideology.
The political parties did lay down their programmes and principles regarding the economy’s management, the structure of political organisati.