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By Our Reporter

Although the supreme leaders of three major parties agreed to defend the present system after the pro-royalists started taking to the streets, they have utterly failed to stop prevalent anomalies.

They are still resorting to meeting their petty interest at the expense of government coffers.

They have continued to bargain to get their men in the key positions in the Nepal Rastra Bank, universities and even in the constitutional bodies.

The ruling parties are unable to appoint the governor of the Nepal Rastra Bank even three weeks after governor Maha Prasad Adhikari retired.  As the Nepali Congress and the UML are using their might to appoint their man to the key post of the central bank, the appointment process has been delayed unnecessarily. Likewise, TU Vice Chancellor Kesharjung Baral resigned after failing to bear the unnecessary pressure of Prime Minister and Chancellor KP Sharma Oli. Though Oli accepted his resignation, he has not initiated any process to appoint a new VC.

The teachers have been staging protests for over three weeks, but the government has not initiated a concrete process to address their demands. Instead, Education Minister Bidhya Bhattarai resigned after she failed to receive cooperation from Prime Minister Oli in addressing the teachers’ demands. The resignation of Bhattarai comes as a blow to the government which was facing criticism for not addressing the teachers’ demands. Moreover, Bhattarai’s resignation could cause a rift within the UML with leaders dividing for and against her.

It is said that Minister Bhattarai resigned after being fed up with PM Oli’s uncooperative behaviors on several issues. Although the government made attempts to conduct the grade 12 examination scheduled for April 24 by moblizing civil servants on Tuesday morning, it backtracked from the decision in the evening as the civil servants were not ready to cooperate with the government and postponed it by 10 days.

Moreover, a kind of rift has emerged between the two major coalition partners—UML and NC. It was evident from the absence of Gagan Kumar Thapa, NC general secretary and Purna Bahadur Khadka, vice president of NC, in the meeting of the high-level mechanism formed by the two parties to help the government. When the two major parties have divided on key issues like the teachers’ demonstrations, they may not stand united on other issues as well even if they have committed to work to safeguard the federal republic structures.