KATHMANDU: CPN-UML lawmaker Gokul Baskota has warned that recent weaknesses in the country’s leadership have created space for reactionary forces to undermine the revolutionary values that shaped Nepal’s political transformation.
Speaking during Wednesday’s meeting of the House of Representatives, Baskota expressed concern over what he called a growing public disillusionment with the indicators of revolution, progress, and social change.
“A dangerous trend is emerging, one that seeks to erode historically validated revolutionary values, replacing them with populism, hatred, propaganda, and shallow slogans,” Baskota said. “Such tendencies are not only misleading the public but also attempting to repackage feudal thinking in a modern form.”
Baskota accused some forces of deliberately building a new narrative by highlighting recent governance failures and inefficiencies, with the aim of devaluing the achievements of Nepal’s people’s movements and revolutions.
He pointed specifically to how the legacy of the 2006 People’s Movement is being downplayed by some self-proclaimed intellectuals.
“They are trying to impose their narrow aspirations on society and want to control its direction based on their own flawed worldview,” he said, warning that such efforts are based on illusion.
While not naming any parties directly, Baskota offered veiled criticism of the current coalition government, led by the Nepali Congress and supported by the CPN-UML, and called on both lawmakers and citizens to remain alert to these emerging reactionary trends.
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