Nepal and the communists : the long march to democracy?

• Main Author: Sujoyini Mandal
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Commentary
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/92291; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/5966
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Nepal’s Constituent Assembly elections were postponed for the second time on 22 November 2007. This follows the withdrawal of the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-M) from the government and has exposed the cracks in the arduous road to democracy in Nepal. The absence of governance carries implic...