Even nearly two months after its installation in the cockpit of power, the anti-Left coalition government led by NC’s Sher Bahadur Deuba gives the impression of being mired in inaction and battered by confusion and contradictions, according to non-partisan political analysts.

Indeed, they point out that it has been unable as of yesterday to constitute the Nation Planning Commission, announce it’s much talked above expansion of the Council on Ministers, or move ahead on a slew of top-level political appointments, including those connected with the official media.

There has also not been any firm announcement on the government’s policy vis-a-via ambassadors nominated by the outgoing UML government although it is reliably learnt that it has appointed Binod Bista, son of former Prime Minister Kirtinidhi Bista, as Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nation -- much to the deep chagrin of Shital Niwas mandarins.

People’s Review, 9 November 1995.