Politics and Governance in Nepal: Challenges and Opportunities

Working inside is not as easy as it looks from the outside. While it seems easy to run a ministry from the outside or implement the budget in six months, it is very difficult to extract results by linking the bureaucracy and governance structure with 'performance indicators' in reality.

Listening to the gentlemen and looking at Rameshwar sir's ten points, I feel that although the structures in Nepal have changed, the tendency has never changed. Even today, we believe in individualistic politics. As long as individualistic politics exists, the party system cannot function.

The main thing that Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) is trying to do now is to make politics 'scientific'. Scientific means based on facts and measurable. What our ministers have done in the ministry is measured by linking it to their performance.

The biggest misfortune of our society is that we think about everything emotionally. Building a country is not magic or trickery, it is a long process. But today's society lacks patience. People who used to wait a day for the newspaper that came once a day have now reached a state of panic if the internet is not available for 15 minutes.

Today's citizen has seen the extraordinary progress made by people around the world. They compare their country's resources with that development and seek results overnight. Due to the tendency to seek results today, political parties in the past gave false assurances and failed because they could not fulfill them.

We clearly understand that the politics we do is only linked to delivery. If we cannot deliver, we have no future.

We are not here by chance, this is a presence with a resolve. As I said earlier, when any new government or leadership comes, it does not give complete results in the first 3 to 6 months, but a signal of the right path. We are giving a signal whether we are on the right track or not. Citizens should give us at least one year to examine whether that path is right or not.

As far as geopolitics is concerned, we will proceed by prioritizing our national interest. We want to correct the disrespect that political parties have shown to the sentiments of the citizens in the past and the chaos in the development model. Our resolve is to explain to society the reality that a policy can only yield results after 10 years and to make honest efforts based on facts. There are certainly challenges, but there are also extraordinary opportunities for Nepal. We are striving to turn those opportunities into reality.

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