No political discussion in Nepal these days is complete unless you have uttered the ‘F’ word. When the talk around the family dining table turns to constitution-writing, as it often does, minors have to be sent to bed early because their parents punctuate their sentences with ‘WTF’ (What the Federofornification!) In fact, not a second goes by without someone somewhere between Mechi and Mahakali arguing about the prose or corns of federalissimo.
As far as the Weekly Ass is concerned, federalism is a no brainer. It doesn’t have to be complicated at all, and here to assist with the debate in Parliament in the coming week we propose various workable models for a fast-tracked Federal Express:
0 Province Model
The most egalitarian formula for federalism that doesn’t have federal boundaries, and therefore nothing to fight about.
3 Province Model
If the four main parties cannot come up with a formula for federalism, they should simply carve Nepal up into three slices, and we could annex a bit of Kumaon with all the holy sites which used to be a part of Nepal, and declare that an Erstwhile Hindu Kingdom of Nepal.
