mR. hydE and sidster,

You are right about the redundancy and the potential danger of federalism.

However, the decision has been already made (the decision of the interim parliament in 2007, the government-Madhesi groups agreement in 2007 to create a “Madhesi autonomous province”, the Constituent Assembly’s first session’s declaration of a ‘federal republic of Nepal’, to name the few major decisions).

So, saying no to federalism is neither enough nor will work.

Chitra Bahadur KC and his party is like eklo brihaspati in opposing federalism.

So, my point is that, only realistic and practical thing left is to MINIMIZE the potential damage by federalism. So the best thing to do right now is to search and advocate for the LEAST HARMFUL model of federalism.

Mero prayas ra jod teta pati ho. I hope you are not dismissing this kind of thinking.

Nepe