Oppositional politics in Nepal

Opposition ceases to exist in those States where there is no party system of Government. In contrast to this view, the author holds conflict as a natural and inevitable part of any political system and shows how the party less system in Nepal could not prevent opposition from growing. The basic contradiction exhibited by the system itself has given way to the steady growth of dissent. It is understandable that political expediency and unsocialized political behaviour should have become the motivating factors for elites to pursue deviationist line, making their conflict markedly the conflict of interests. Sometimes, the conflict of interests was transformed into the conflict of values, thereby enlarging the prospect of oppositionists irreconciled to the existence of the 'partyless' character of the system.

The impact of external forces on the internal dynamics of opposition has been reviewed. That the ruler's strategies have prevented the external situation from creating its impact on internal politics is the major theme of this part sources of dissent within the Some of the system have been analysed to suggest that the situation as it existed during the period under review no longer exista.