Prime Minister K.P. Oli need not worry. He can go about his ways creating confusion and he has a set machinery to tide over his worries. His media is busy selling his achievements of the couple of years of his incumbency. His party is busy tidying over the ruffles of his internal power arrangements. The opposition in parliament is engrossed in its own contradictions assuring all that they will be solved by time of their party convention. His doctors may keep him busy but they are also busy assuring the public that his is a workable health matter. And, since he is not worry, the prime minister is recently the source of yet another political problem. He has chosen to sweep away all seven opposition appointed state governors and replace them from his own ranks with narry a bother about its effects on a polity that is still entangled in a flurry of mounting crises. The matter becomes grist for yet another controversy emanating from the apex of government. The problem is yet another media matter on the current constitution and political conduct. Since K.P. Oli need not worry, it is up to the party and its media to sort things out, And, it is up to the opposition to take up the issue in the myriad of media channels to lambaste. Oli’s worries have enough tools working his way to assuage. He need not budge. Unless, that is, the people take to the streets. After all, government has set another public preoccupation in motion, the mid-term.
This keeps Oli’s worries at bay. The problem is that this need not keep the people at bay. The growing popular consensus is that the political parties have sold them out. The intelligentsia now is no longer able to sell the myth that monolithic political parties with monopolistic leaders sanctified by the people’s vote are democracy. Even the perennial democrat is aware now that unhide-able excesses of current politics emanate from this supposed strength. It is for this reason now that the general conclusion is that the streets alone are the answer to the excesses. The flurry of public promises to take to the streets appears as if there is a race because of this consensus. So far, though, the catch is not in the promise of the streets. The catch is in the fact that there is no consensus on the target. It is as if there are quarters that want a chaotic street as a ruse to do what? A suggestion of deliberate uncertainty can only keep Prime Minister Oli comfortable. The options must be spelled out and any movement can be self-failing when it is not directional.
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