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Earlier too, the then prime minister, Sher Bahadur Deuba, had rejected the projects under BRI saying that Nepal is unable to take loans for the implementation of the projects.

In 2017, Nepal signed on to the BRI projects and approved nine projects for construction.

Whatever Nepal’s stance is, the covert reason is said to have excessive pressure mounted on PM Dahal from Delhi and Washington for not entertaining the BRI in Nepal.

A delay in the construction of infrastructure projects will add above ten percent of the additional cost per

year. Our leaders have not looked after this point of view.

Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness (GNH) are: Sustainable and equitable socio-economic development Preservation and promotion of a free and resilient culture

Good governance and equality before the law Ecological sustainability/ Environmental conservation.

The Nine Domains of GNH are: psychological well-being, health, timeuse, education, cultural diversity and resilience, good governance, community vitality, ecological diversity and resilience, and living standards.

Each domain is composed of subjective (surveybased) and objective indicators. The domains weigh equally but the indicators within each domain differ by weight. As regards Nepal’s ranking in the World Happiness Report, there is a huge gap in the private and public perceptions of the state of the nation.

There is little doubt that inter-personal relations in the private sector, particularly the greater family and the community are very strong.

These do not spill over to the public sector. The socalled leaders with their nepotism, favourtism and rampant corruption have degenerated public life.

With every breath, the leaders promise good governance, but this is a pipe dream. Clean and effective governance cannot be realized because of the leaders’ attachment to an outdated ideology – Communism – or the abandonment of a workable or resilient one – Social Democracy. As Lenin himself postulated: What is to be done?

The answer was given by Karl Marx himself:

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world in

various ways; the point is to change it.” And thus Rajendra Lingden of the Rashtriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) may become the man of destiny, if he plays his cards right and is able to usher in a really new and happy Nepal.