Nepal, June 23 -- A robust national legislature where people's representatives deliberate on key national issues and pass relevant bills is perhaps the best indicator of a functioning democracy. This is even more the case in a parliamentary democracy where the parliament elects the prime minister, and thus provides a vital check on executive power. But the system works only if members of all three organs of the state accept and internalise the 'parliamentary supremacy'. This sense of responsibility is most essential in the prime minister, the executive head. In our system, whoever has the majority in the legislature forms the government and so the prime minister, as government head, enjoys enormous potential leverage over the parliament's...