Voters’ expectations
The Himalayan Times
21
December 2017
Voters’ expectations
After all the elections held successfully
under the federal structure according to the new statute, left alliance
comprising the UML and CPN-MC won the comfortable majority leaving behind the
Nepali Congress (NC). Still, the official result under the Proportional
Representation (PR) system is yet to be announced by the Election Commission
(EC) based on the ‘Sainte-League’ system. However, the estimated number of
seats under this system shows that the UML and NC are neck to neck in PR seats.
It looks interesting while closely observing the polling results that the
voters, who were tired of seeing frequent changes of government in the past,
wanted to see the left alliance run the country for the next five years while
NC sitting in the opposition.
Now, the time has come for the
left alliance to form a new government with able, sincere, committed and honest
ministers with appropriate portfolios. The new government needs to quickly act
to deliver prompt services to the people as promised during the election
campaign. People are cautiously eager to see the new government will gradually
lead the nation towards peace and prosperity. There are definitely many
challenges ahead for the new government. However, there are lot of
opportunities also for them to prove their capabilities, sincerity,
accountability and commitment towards the nation and its people.
For this, both the UML and CPN-MC
senior leaders should be sincere towards each other to fulfill their pre
election agreement. If they fail to implement their agreements and start
playing their political egoism as in the past, then the next elections will be
very costly for them. Judging the number of seats won by the left alliance, the
voters seem to have endorsed the idea of unification of the UML and CPN-MC to
form a single communist party as announced by them before the provincial and
federal elections. As reported, K.P. Oli and Pushpa Kamal Dahal will their
government on a rotation basis “Oli, Dahal likely to lead government turn by
turn “ (THT, December 19, Page 1). Whoever runs the next government, people
will be closely watching his political performance based on the gradual
implementation of their political manifestos.
Rai
Biren Bangdel
Maharajgunj
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