It appears to me that the supreme leadership of all major political parties and their working style are not going to change at least for next election period. The recruiting centers of all political parties (so called sister organizations) are as corrupt (bribable, impotent, hypocrite and sycophantic) as their mother parties are. Yet I am confident that Nepal will make strides in all spheres of national life simply and decisively because of the qualitatively elevated popular awareness, vigilance and assertiveness. I think, for some time to come, the formidable popular pressure will be the major force moving the country forward despite the presence of incompetent political leadership on her shoulder The popular pressure is going to be particularly effective due to two major factors: (i) the glory it achieved from the April Revolution, and (ii) a sort of the "liberation" of politics from it's earlier real or perceived obligation to appease the institution of monarchy. The only institutions left for the politicians to appease are the people and the foreign powers. In the issues with conflicting interests between the people and the foreign powers, popular pressure can be expected to prevail. In the issues with no conflict of interests between the people and the foreign powers, it does not matter whom our politicians go to appease. So, all in all, popular assertiveness rather than anything else will be decisive in coming days. And to keep that sharp-edged, it will have to save it from two degenerative diseases: apathy and paranoia, the later being the type abundant -- in loudness if not in quality and quantity-- in Sajha. In other words, sanity and perseverance of our yet uncorrupted and non-partisan youth is an insurance to our better future. Everything else is mere expenditure. On a different and lighter note, our leaders appear unfit anyway on the basis of their physical unfitness. Here's the report. Ill politicians: - http://www.nepalitimes.com:80/issue/347/FromtheNepaliPress/13493 Nepe