For quite a while now, the debate over civil supremacy is reigning supreme in Nepali politics. The intensity is such that it toppled Prachanda-led government, plunging the country in a state of no-governance for a couple of weeks. In the days that followed Prachanda’s resignation, what course the dirty game would take was beyond a commoner’s ken. At last, the country found a new Prime Minister in Madhav Kumar Nepal.

Indeed, the ‘civil supremacy’ bone of contention created humongous and hugely unmanageable ripples in the already agitated ocean of Nepali politics. Simultaneously, the pandemonium dragged a naked truth into limelight: “evil supremacy” reigns supreme in the country. The stakeholders had better gauge its gravity crippling the country and work earnestly on it, as its end can only herald the beginning of civil supremacy.

Proofs and instances of evil supremacy abound. Recent ones are: bomb blast at a church in Lalitpur,

police encounter with kidnappers in Kathmandu, and, of course, general sense of insecurity throughout the country. Likewise, corruption, crime, impunity, red tape syndrome, nepotism, discrimination, apple-polishing are classical ingredients going into the making of evil supremacy.

Evil reigns supreme when it comes to ridiculing one’s opponents as well. The ghastly display of slinging match volleyed against each other, mainly by UCPN (M) and CPN (UML), prior to the formation of the new government, is anything but what a democratic use of the expression may imply.

The slanging match, however, had reasons to spring into being: Shaktikhor video opened Pandora’s Box against the then PM Prachanda; the fact of losing from two constituencies in CA polls became Nepal’s Achilles’ Heel. Each leader failed to verily defend his glaring weaknesses. For once, the red herring, politician’s basic tool to fool the public, seemed to be missing in that glaring hole of weakness.

As of now, politics of consensus has taken a back seat, with the largest party choosing to stay in the opposition, declining to recognize the new government and pillorying it. It was not present at a special function organized at Tundikhel to commemorate the first Republic Day. A finer mess awaits Nepal in the days to come, making evil supremacy last ad infinitum.