Winning a mandate is easy but maintaining it is full of challenges, Nepal’s Opposition leader Gagan Kumar Thapa told NDTV today, while speaking of the rapper-turned-Prime Minister Balen Shah.
“They were so angry. And the main reason for their anger was that we are not getting enough opportunities here. And why are we not getting enough opportunities? And bad governance is equal to the wrong politics, wrong political choices. So there was a clear message. It just didn’t come out one fine day.
Due to bad governance.
There was a clear message,” he said.
But now, criticism against him is growing after his government’s foreign policy became clear and incidents related to law and order surfaced. “I would urge them to go back to our history. It’s not the first time some leader of some party has got this strong mandate… “You start to think that I am the most powerful, and you start undermining the institutions. And you start undervaluing the public accountability…
Because of his travels, he said it was easy to sense the mood of the young people. The 36-year-old came to power barely six months ago on a massive popular mandate following the Gen Z protests and violence. “Even before September 8, we raised this issue.
What our history teaches us, that winning a mandate is one thing, but making it a success is a different thing,” Thapa, the president of the Nepali Congress, said at the NDTV World Anviksha Summit. I suggest that RSP also learn from the failures of history,” he said. As for his own party, he said the writing was on the wall for long. We were continuously warning our senior leaders that there is a growing frustration among people,” Thapa said.
