An uphill battle awaits Nepal’s new head of government
Hindustan TimesOn November 20, Nepal will hold its least ideologically charged general election in its history. Deuba’s liberal centrist Nepali Congress will fight the elections — Nepal’s second since it constitutionally became a federal State in 2015 — as part of a rainbow alliance. One of his coalition partners, the Communist Party of Nepal, waged a violent underground “people’s war” for 10 years, targeting Nepali Congress workers and leaders. But it is just as important to ask how a democratic Nepal — civil society, academia, college and university teachers, and students and working professionals — will respond to Xi Jinping’s unprecedented third term as the party leader, putting him alongside only Mao Zedong in China’s pantheon of leaders. When President Xi visited Kathmandu in 2019, the world had changed since the heydays of Maoism and it would be a stretch to state that Nepal’s young population — who grew in an open society — feel the old ideological kinship toward the founder of the People’s Republic of China and his successors.
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