The ordinary citizen had still to experience its taste or savour its aroma, although it did have ample opportunity to sample the miasma of stinking “corruption and immorality”. The all-pervading sense of political confusion obtaining in the country today was also highlighted by the UML leadership, which despite its linking with the RPP in the government today, could still wistfully refer to its one-time closeness with the Nepali Congress. Was the RPP to blame for it’s distancing from the Nepali Congress or did it merely take advantage of such a movement? Finally, commentators find it extraordinary that RPP chief Surya Bahadur Thapa still chooses to join in the let’s-bash the-undemocratic–elements game, when it is his own party that not only leads the present coalition but, indeed, made it possible for the “undemocratic” UML to spring back to power. People’s Review, 10 April 1997