Though the floor test of the newly elected Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli is approved in the parliament with overwhelming majority, it is likely that the unconsecrated relations wouldn’t longer thanks to the conditions forwarded by some political parties for ‘lucrative’ ministers. The sign of splitting-up the recently forged dramatic relations between the leftist allies and the Madhes based parties particularly with the Federal Socialist Forum Nepal (FSFN) have already surfaced. The leftist government led by CPN UML Chairman Oli has bagged two-thirds majority in the country’s history after some fringe parties including the Mahdes based parties changed their political course in a dramatic way. In the 275 seat Federal Parliament, 268 votes were cast and Oli had received 208 votes, repeating the fate of first elected Prime Minister in 2015 B.S. The backing of two third majorities to the leftist government is not only the new coincidence after the restoration of democracy in 1990 but also a historic achievement to the communist parties for being proficient to run the government with overwhelming support in the parliament. We are also cheered with extent of political understanding among some parties and also do an expectation that the country would get stable government for at least five years.
It seem that the Madhes based parties particularly FSFN- which had agreed first to vote in favor of Oli in condition of getting at least three ministries, has now reached on the stage of not joining in the government, thanks to the differences in the power sharing deal. As FSFN’s chairman Upendra Yadav was not appointed as the Foreign Minister, the leaders of his party have begun to pronounce that they would not join in the government but launch strike in Terai and Madhes repeating the fate of previous saga. The support of the Madhes based parties to the Oli led leftist government was itself a surprising incidence as PM Oli and the Madhes based parties used to share hostile relations in the past where Madhes based parties also used to depict him as an anti-Madhesi leader. The incident has approved the avowal of Karl Marx, the ideological legend of many communist parties including the Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli’s own party- CPN UML. As Marx had said while throwing a salvo of satire to the Napoleon III that the first time tragedy would be a farce in the second time, Prime Minister Oli has proved the statement by taking into confidence to the Madhes based parties to support the government even though both the side had the history of antagonistic relationship.
As the incumbent Oli led leftist government is already in safe position and bagged support even from various fringe parties including Rastriya Janamorcha, Rastriya Prajatantra Party and from an independent parliamentarian, the seething of FSFN would not hamper to run the majority government. Whatever the intention was kept by the leaders of the leftist alliance, we had already eulogized the Prime Mnister Oli for becoming able to take into confidence to the fringe political parties including the annoyed Madhes based parties in favor of the government. But the concern was that the support to the government should not be exchanged with the ministerial portfolio, or to let free the culprits of the heinous crime or any other adulterated conditions. As the Madhesi parties had repeatedly been exposing their disagreements and dissatisfactions over the constitution, many people had an expectation that the dissatisfaction of the Madhes based parties would have settled through the agreement before entering in the course of dividing share in the government. There would not be a matter of headache to the people in general if the two third majorities bagged by the government was not jeopardized in the influence of power sharing deal.
