28 November-4 December 2014 #734

Back to work

DEEPENDRA BAJRACHARYA

When the government went into hibernation for the SAARC Summit last week, Dialogue Committee Chair Baburam Bhattarai tweeted that since nothing was happening, he was off to the movies. Now that the South Asian jamboree is over, it’s time to get back to work. Negotiations are deadlocked not so much because of federalism, but because of disagreement over power sharing after January. If all this is political foreplay, then it is even more discouraging.