But if you just focused on the disagreements, bluffs, blackmail and threats and counter-threats in the run up to the agreements, you would want to write off these parties as a useless and hopeless bunch. We can understand differences of opinion among political parties and it´s only natural in a nascent democracy like Nepal where the political parties come from such diverse backgrounds. But every difference of opinion should not lead to stalemate in parliament or to the fall of the government. In a democracy parties should learn to listen and respect a different perspective and also to reconcile competing interests so as to arrive at a common understanding without wasting a lot of time. Even this time round we wasted two precious months since the day Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal resigned from the post of prime minister. The parties were debating the text of the 4-point agreement for weeks. May be it offers a face-saver for both sides but it has nothing of substance. The language of the agreement has been framed so that it binds no one to doing anything concrete. It says, "The government will take initiative..." but the initiative doesn´t have to reach any conclusion.
Why waste crucial time when we are already hard-pressed over the deadline for writing our constitution and federalizing the country, the two main goal posts in our political transition. We have already missed major deadlines in the constitution writing process-- so no more distraction or digression please, under any pretext. Let´s become consumed with this singular task of writing the constitution and holding the next general election in the stipulated time.
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