The fuck is he even going to do as mayor if he's not going to rein them in?
This. If he apologizes, then we'll just be in the position of hoping he's making a fake apology and actually does shit....which isn't a good way to be doing politics
You win people over to your positions by putting them out there and defending what you believe
Moreover, this stance by him won't win anyone over and will demotivate his supporters. At best, if he apologizes then maybe the cops will fuck with him less (lmao)
If 70% of people on college campuses gamble, then that means a very high percent of women are also gambling in college, which surprises me since I very rarely hear women talk about gambling on the campus I work at.
What kinda organizational does the mayor of Kathmandu Municipality have around him?
I know Nepal isn't a big country (tho the geography might make it "bigger" that it appears on paper), but I think he'll have difficulty scaling up an administration to a national level just based on personal relationships.
If he's just independent, then Id imagine he'll have difficulty managing a whole country and he'll have to lean heavily on the military (assuming it has any cache with the public) or suffer an ineffective government
I know Maoist Centre is in opposition in the government. Do you think they're in a position to take advantage of this? Are they any good? I know Prachanda has been involved in a lot of controversies, is he still synonymous with the Maoist Centre?
I can't really answer your question. I think the main issue is party building, but how to do that really depends on local conditions. You need a party where leadership is accountable to its party members, and where the party is accountable to the masses but without taking tailing the masses. But everyone knows this or something like this; how to make it happen is the challenge.
From my view thousands of miles away, it seems like after the end of the ppw, Nepal had many many feudal elements remaining. Capitalism and bourgeois institutions were going to be developed. As in the case of many AES states (not necessarily saying Nepal is AES, just making a comparison), this meant the communists in government were stuck in the unenviable position of having to "complete" the bourgeois revolution and to lead capitalist development. It seems in Nepal's case they did not rise to the challenge.
What's the fifth head?