It must be remembered that political corruption is one of the basic modes of operations of an authoritarian regime. In fact it is the life blood of authoritarian regime. If this is so then why authoritarian regimes take more aggressive and affirmative stand? Those people who are complaining of less corruption during three decades of panchayat regime are simply complaining about their losing corruption monopoly to the multi-party wallahs. Remember, Mr. Narayan Man Bijuchhe saying, ?We were clean simply because we had not had an opportunity to be corrupt.? Writing on how authoritarian regime use anti-corruption or rather corruption strategy Mr. Inge Amundsen from Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway speaks, ?The power to let a follower get rich through corruption combined with the power to remove the same individual because of corruption is an efficient way of securing personal loyalty and subservience. The many corruption campaigns are therefore rarely meant to change the structural setting of extractive corruption. It is used as a disciplinary mechanism and as tool in the struggle against rivals, as a pretext to dispense with embarrassing individuals or cliques. Beside, it is instigated to accommodate to the international agenda, and to please international donors and lenders.? Once you relate Mr. Amundsen?s these lines with the actions taken by the Royal Commission on Mr. Deuba and his associates, the situation gets more clear. Interestingly, Mr Amudsen?s last prediction is not happening. IT is because it is difficult to fool international community, howsoever; you draft your speech with sugar-coated words. - http://www.blog.com.np/index.php?p=623#more-623