NC ruled most of the 15 years of the post Panchayat era, so they should take the major responsibility of the failure or success during this period. Success: People had more access to the government, people's rights Growth in infratructure, communication etc. Failure: The access to the government was not enough. The growth was not enough. A long term visionary plan was always missing. Not offereing enough to the people, the Maoist staged war against the establishtment and everyone knows what happened. Corruption: Rampant corruption, from top-down was never contained, or even tried. Girija always finding ways to defend corrupt leaders, made it look like corruption was OK for everyone in power. However, measures were taken, but not enough was done. Opposition: UML, main the opposition party during this era should take responsibility as well. They were not very effective opposition party. Rather than always playing the game of trying to get to the government, and take opposition to the streets (ra railing vachne politics), they should have had their patience and held on. But didn't happen, so they share some of the responsibility as well. But NC has to take the major blame. It did produce corrupt leaders like Khum Bdr, Govinda R. Joshi, Chiranjivi Wagle, Sujata etc. There are much more NC leaders who are genuine than these thugs, but these were people who enjoyed the power and worked against the aspiration of the people, so it is obvious for a layman to blame NC party as a whole of being corrupt. If at least few names were off the list in the last NC internal election, people would have thought otherwise.