Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli's statement that constitutional amendment will take place only in 2087 has caused a huge reaction. There has been criticism not only in the opposition camp, but also within a camp of the ruling Congress. However, what he said was not untrue.

Because even if the majority required to amend the constitution with the ruling component reaches the House of Representatives, it does not reach the National Assembly. For that, we have to wait until 2087. Even after that, there is no certainty that the majority will be reached and the amendment will be easy.

But, common people don't say that. Yesterday, when the two big parties agreed on seven points to form the government, they said that they would amend the constitution before the 084 general election, but today they will bring it to 087? Therefore, instead of saying that publicly, the Prime Minister should have discussed with his own party and power partner parties, including Maoists, and given the message that he is trying to amend the constitution as soon as possible. If this is not done, the opposition has started to say that the ruling coalition does not want to amend the constitution, but wants to extend the power until 087 without elections and implement a two-party dictatorship. The public expressions of some Congress leaders are even more inflammatory or suicidal than Oli. Not only leaders like Arjun Narsingh KC, mature, intelligent and sometime close to Sher Bahadur Deuba like NP Saud, others have also started saying 'now the rationale of the alliance is over'. So, what is the alternative to the existing alliance?

Did the Maoists want an alternative to isolate and weaken Oli-UML by forming a government consisting of small parties including Congress, Maoists, National Independent Party and Unified Socialists? What is the benefit to the Congress or the country? Saying that the justification of the current government is over, when a new coalition government is formed, will it benefit both the country and the party or not? Will the next coalition government achieve a majority for the amendment of the constitution, which is not enough now, in both houses? Or did the Congress leaders say that the largest party in the House should become a political exile by allowing the remaining Bhuretakure parties to form a coalition government? Can any other option provide a solution to the serious problems of the country that this alliance has not been able to provide? If possible, what, which, what kind of alternative?

If there is a satisfactory answer to this question, whether it is justified or not, then this coalition and this government will look for an alternative. If not, the rationale of the government including its own party has ended, and it is not good to give a public statement against the party line. If they really felt that the rationale was over, they should have raised this matter strongly before the party president or in the party forum and sought an explanation from Prime Minister Oli. Or, on behalf of the party, they could have made a rebuttal saying that there was disagreement with the Prime Minister's statement. If you don't do that and speak on a public forum, the solution to the problem will come out?

This coalition and the government had three rationales – political stability, constitutional amendment and good governance, delivery, corruption control and economic development. The task of political stability was being fulfilled by the current alliance. It would be a different matter if the country is plunged into the cycle of political instability where the government changes every 6-6 months by ending this alliance saying that it is no longer justified. If not, every leader/worker of the Congress should stop the habit of speaking whatever they find different from the institutional or official line of the party. Group, personal and expressing frustration that he did not become a minister or was removed from the ministry or trying to please the geopolitical power, the work of spoiling the atmosphere of political stability must be abandoned now. 

Congress and UML are the biggest and main rival parties. Their competition was in ideas as well as in elections. Therefore, they did not get along with each other except in exceptional cases where politics had reached an extraordinary situation. They used to oppose each other. Worryingly, this opposition was unhealthy in some cases. They were even accused of seeing their existence and progress only in the demise of others. That's why when the 'Hong' House was formed without any party having a majority, they would join forces with the third and fourth-ranked parties in the House, and one would take the other out of power. The leader of the minor party would be the prime minister and under his leadership the two parties would alternate in government as junior partners in power, each 5-7 months replacing each other in the opposition. This situation of changing the government soon had been intensifying in the country for some time. The country and the people had to bear the situation for many years where the small parties were decisive in everything contrary to the mandate, their unfulfillable demands had to be met, the government's work was halted due to political instability, and corruption increased. However, despite this competition for 33 years, both the parties could not even reduce the power to destroy each other. In the meantime, some parties have risen and fallen, calling them alternatives to the old ones, third parties, new forces, new parties, regional-ethnic identificationist parties. How slowly they are setting. 

The extreme political instability, blackmail of small parties, the situation of forming a government contrary to the mandate and the frustration and anger created by these things in the public mind, the two big parties came to the conclusion that we will not be together anymore. They did it right. Respecting each other's roles and deciding to form a government together to solve the problems faced by the nation is an advanced wisdom.

Therefore, until the 084 election, the two big parties should join together and form a government together, not oppose it, but support it. Yesterday they indulged in the 'Zero Sum' game. Even if you do bad things, you will scold again just because you get along. This is not double standards and prejudice? There are some analysts who cite books on different political theories and speculate that when the two big parties came together, the parliament became without opposition, and a dictatorship began to emerge. If this is considered a dictatorship, the action of King Mahendra on December 1, 2017, what should the action of King Gyanendra on January 19, 2017 be called 'democracy'?