xarm [he/him]

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  • Since the election is getting near in Nepal (The election for House of Representatives (HoR) will be conducted in March 5, 2026), some updates on the movement of the current four biggest parties

    • Nepali Congress party splits due to internal power struggle with Gagan Thapa coming on top. The former Congress President Sher Bahadur Thapa Deuba announced he would not run in this election.

    • The former PM KP Sharma Oli secured a third term as CPN-UML chair at the party’s 11th General Convention. Nothing much movement from CPN-UML other than talk.

    • Seven communist parties including Prachanda led Maoist, strike 18-point agreement for unification. With that CPN (Maoist Centre) co-ordinator Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ has formally abandoned his core Maoist principles, aligning once again with the Marxism–Leninism embraced by the Nepal Communist Party (NCP) formed in 2018.

    • RSP managed to get Balendra Shah (the most popular candidate for Prime Minister) into the party and has named him their PM candidate.

    some fun fact

    • UML Chair KP Sharma Oli and Balendra Shah will face each other in the same constituency so that is something to look forward to.
    • Balendra Shah is also a rapper. Can listen to some of his bangers here and here. its difficult to really describe the craze for him here, can look into his account on facebook








  • I did not meant to moralize but meant we should not to blame all of internal and systematic problem to US alone and recognize how liberal democracy was the reason for government failure. Even tho the government was formed with Marxist-Leninist party, its not really socialist in nature.

    The Nepal government acting incompetent will lead to Nepal surrendering its sovereignity so am more mad at the government. If the reason behind the backlash had been some pro-monarchist protest instead of the student protest then they would have been in power. There even was a violent pro-monarchist protest few months ago and their activities had been increasing a lot so can easily imagine them leading the large instead of discord government. At least now their influence has died down since people are not constantly pissed off at the government.

    I do not get the vibe this particular protest was due to western influence but assuming it is and acting on that basis is more safer option for communist parties here rather than just waiting for hard proof. A liberal government was overthrown and will probably be back to same situation but maybe some communist parties can gain more power too.


  • The only problem I have with the whole ‘Color revolution’ theory is the minimization of the government’s incompetence. Maybe I am just hung up on that a lot and both can be true.

    Assuming that protest is a color revolution and moving forward is still the best bet rather than being blind sided from it later on. Yet will still iterate the way the government shot it self so badly should be a case study on bad governance.

    The take is similar to the communist party here. Only America and India has sufficient power to absolutely destroy Nepal and the fact that something like that happened should make it very very suspicious.

    Just personally don’t see why US would want to move against the government when their guy (Sher Bahadur Deuba) was guranteed to be prime minister after a year. Felt like the whole thing reduced their influence since they control the largest party here which suffered the most.


  • The actual project cited called “Yuva Netritwa: Paradarshi Niti” (Youth Leadership: Transparent Policy)” ran from July 2021 to June 2022 and selected some 60-70 people for training.

    I mean if any other protest from then, and I mean there were a lot of protest, managed to overthrow the government then will it also automatically be a color revolution because NED money once flowed here few years ago?

    My point is that the scale of the protest was too large to have only evidence being some report from 2022 running a training program. The most suspicious part for international audience might be the use of discord to elect the interim PM‌, which is a fair thing to be worry about, but the burning of Supreme Court and the Singha Durbar is even more suspicious event for us. guess is there was some internal conspiracy involving Nepal Army due to their inaction for most of the day.

    not denying it couldn’t possibly have been a color revolution but just haven’t seen any credible evidence of US involvement. Also that NED training program might even be related to MCC since the timeline match more.