Baburam Bhattarai’s Remarks: Nepal’s Recent Election Could Introduce a New Dimension to Global and National Politics

March 18, Kathmandu – Former Prime Minister Dr. Baburam Bhattarai has suggested that Nepal’s recent election could serve as a crucial starting point for restructuring politics both globally and within Nepal in a new way. In a statement shared on Facebook Thursday, he emphasized that the election results require a profound evaluation not only of the communist movement but also of the broader democratic movement.

“The election outcome in Nepal presents an important preliminary opportunity to objectively assess not just the communist movement but the entire democratic movement, thereby laying the groundwork to reshape the politics of the 21st century both in the world and Nepal,” Bhattarai wrote.

Bhattarai highlighted that advances associated with the 21st century, including the Fourth and Fifth Industrial Revolutions, miraculous technologies such as artificial intelligence, a highly globalized economy, a multipolar world order, and cutting-edge knowledge in physical, social, and cognitive domains have introduced boundless possibilities.

Simultaneously, he pointed out grave challenges such as extreme economic inequality, devastating environmental crises, the threat of nuclear weapons, and serious conflicts involving national, ethnic, religious, and cultural divisions. He underscored that the responsibility to develop and manage a new human civilization now rests on humanity’s shoulders.

“Given these conditions, there is a need to transcend the major political ideologies of the first industrial revolution era in the 18th and 19th centuries—such as liberalism, socialism, conservationism, anarchism, empiricism, and romanticism—and their associated parties, and instead pursue a novel synthesis and reconstruction of ideology and politics,” Bhattarai emphasized.