India, April 1 -- The assault on corruption and misgovernance has begun in Nepal. On March 28, in the first high-voltage act of PM Balen Shah, the government ordered the first-ever arrest of a former PM, KP Oli. I have been witnessing the entire election process in Nepal. To recap, elections were held on March 5; by 6/7 March it was eminently clear that the four-year-old Rashtriya Swatantra Party had swept the poll in both First Past the Post (FPTP) and Proportional Representation (PR) of Nepal's mixed electoral system.

But it was only on March 25, that the seniormost lawmaker of the dissolved House, Nepali Congress's Arjun Narsingh KC (NC coup-maker Gagan Thapa's father-in-law), was sworn in by President Ram Chandra Poudel as lawmaker. ...