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A National Consensus Government
A National Consensus Government
KTM Metro Reporter
Kathmandu, June 4, 2016: Even though Prime Minister KP Oli has been repeatedly saying that he has not made any agreement with the Maoists for the transfer of the power, and no possibility of change of the government, the media market has been full of the stories of the Oli government may lose its stamina and fall down.
First, the Madheshi and ethnic dissident leaders want to replace Oli with somebody more sympathetic to their demands. They left the street protest and went to the parliament to vote for Sushil Koirala against KP Oli in the last quarter of 2015 even though they did so at the behest of Indian Prime Minster Narendra Modi hoping they could keep Oli out of the power but that did not happen unfortunately for Modi than the Madheshi dissident groups.
Currently, President of NC Sher Bahadur Deuba has been lobbying the Madheshi leaders and the Maoists to topple the Oli government but chairman of CPN-Maoist-Center Prachanda has not been in a mood to replace Oli with Deuba or with him, as both the government will be the majority government not the consensus government. Prachanda has said that he does not want to be a majority prime minister. He wants to be a prime minister of all the political parties in other words a consensus prime minister.
One most not so cozy thing for Oli has been happening is both his colleagues and former prime ministers such as Madhav Nepal and Jhalanath Khanal have been parroting the need for a consensus government for enforcing the constitution of Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal. They have been saying that the constitution could not be implemented without a consensus government in other words somebody should replace Oli.
However, Oli has been complaining how hard to manage the coalition government of 14 political parties that even his party leaders don’t want to understand. Oli has also been saying that his government could be a consensus government but NC and Madheshi leaders don’t want to listen to him. Oli needed to demonstrate his skill in convincing the NC leaders and Madheshi leaders of the need for joining in his government.
Those dissident Madheshi leaders and NC leaders don’t want to realize no matter what a consensus government will be Oli is one of the prominent figures to be the part of the consensus government. They don’t think setting aside Oli how they form a consensus government not to mention the implementation of the constitution.
Keeping the current government intact and helping it to implement the budget and the constitution will be in the interest of the nation and of course in the interest of all political parties and their leaders. In this case, every stakeholder will be in the winning situation. Nobody would need to lose anything when the constitution will be fully implemented.
Some of the NC leaders are not in a mood to change the current government. They know that changing the government so often has been not in the interest of the party and of the nation, too. Only a few unscrupulous and shrewd politicians have reaped the benefits of changing the government.
