KATHMANDU, MAY 5 Prime Minister Balendra Shah has described party-affiliated student and employee organisations as 'sleeper cells' of political parties, arguing that decades of political interference have eroded public trust in these institutions and that the measures are not an attack on any party but an attempt to save the system itself. In the social media post, PM Shah said organisations that were supposed to serve students and civil servants had long since become instruments of partisan interest. 'For years, many organisations became sleeper cells of political parties rather than serving the genuine interests of students and employees,' he wrote. 'Merit was subordinated to access. Competence was valued less than party flags and bags. This eroded public trust in the system itself.' PM said the RSP chose the ordinance route not out of an inability to build its own student and employee organisations - it could do so today if it chose - but because the country had already seen that adding yet another party-affiliated body achieves nothing. 'It neither improves the quality of education nor restores dignity to public servants,' he said. 'History has already demonstrated that.' The ordinances, he said, deliver what the public has long demanded: party flags banned from educational institutions, party affiliations removed from the bureaucracy, and appointments, transfers, and promotions determined by rule, competence, and capability - not by proximity to a political party. Shah was direct in rejecting the framing that the measures curtail rights. 'This does not take away rights - it strengthens professional freedom,' he wrote. 'When students learn politics, let them learn it from teachers, not from crowds of party leaders. When civil servants seek guidance, let them look to the law, not to the shadow of a party.' The Prime Minister said RSP wants students to engage with politics, but the politics of civility, ideas, and responsibility. It wants civil servants to learn public service, not service to any party. 'This is not a fight against any party. This is an effort to save the system. This is an effort to save the future. This is an effort to bring the country out of partisan capture and onto an institutional path,' Shah wrote, appealing for public trust and support. 'We have come to government to work according to the will of the people. Whatever we do, we do in the interest of ordinary Nepalis.'