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Nepal must go back to old map, assure Delhi its territory won’t be used against India
The new Prime Minister of Nepal, Balendra Shah, must reset ties with New Delhi. The India-Nepal relationship cannot be taken for granted.
When the former Chief Justice of Nepal, Sushila Karki, was appointed as the interim prime minister on 12 September last year, with a limited mandate to stabilise the situation and conduct free and fair elections within six months, it appeared to be an uphill task.
The first woman PM of Nepal began her work earnestly, gifting the nation a new government three days ahead of International Women’s Day. The Himalayan Kingdom conducted the general elections on 5 March. Keeping her promise not to remain in power beyond six months, Karki is likely to hand over the charge to the new Prime Minister Balendra Shah soon.
As outlined in Article 84 of the Constitution of Nepal, the 275-member Pratinidhi Sabha (House of Representatives, as the Parliament is called) consists 165 members directly elected from single-member constituencies via the first-past-the-post (FPTP) voting system. The remaining 110 seats are filled through a single nationwide constituency via party-list proportional representation (PR) method of election.
The recent election has signalled a major political shift from the centrist and left-leaning ideologies. Of the 165 FPTP seats, Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) secured 125 seats, Nepali Congress has bagged 18, Communist Party of Nepal-United Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML) nine, Nepali Communist Party (NCP) eight, Shram Sanskriti Party (SSP) three and one each by Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) and independent candidates.
With the PR seats added, the RSP tally might reach 175 seats, freeing Nepal from coalition governments and giving single-party rule.
The RSP, founded in July 2022, claims to be a centrist party, advocating constitutional socialism and economic liberalism. It was an........