Kathmandu: The non-performing prime minister, Lokendra Chand, finally had to admit that he had miserably failed in bringing the political parties differing with the manner in which his own government was constituted by the monarch October last year.

Add to this, secondly, that he has not been able to declare the elections of both, the local level bodies and that of the legislature. For his personal failure, he wishes to dump the allegations onto the heads of the political parties.

Thirdly, he has not been able to improve the law and order situation in the country to what his predecessor had left. Neither he has been able to bring the Maoists insurgents to the talks of which his own errant and whimsical cabinet colleagues have been talking differently at different occasions.

Fourthly, Prime Minister Chand has not been even able to tame bring down the rising consumer goods prices which is apparently an all time high.

A population that expected charismatic changes after Chand assumed premiership were taken aback when they saw their captain moving with unprecedented lethargic speed which time permitting might add up to the strength of the proposed agitation of the congress led by Koirala with fair chances of it being supported by the UML and other meager political parties.

The people need a change and the change could move in any direction which perhaps Prime Minister Chand knows better simply because it was he who had to yield at time of th last popular movement of the 1990s.

The climax of it all is that Chand’s assumption of the nation’s premiership has hit hard the very democratic credentials of his own party the RPP which at the moment is apparently at a comfortable distance with other mainstream democratic parties, for example, the congress and the UML.

In effect, the RPP with its new captain in place, the party is under constant pressure from other political parties to spell out its clear stand on King’s step of October 4 last year.

By implication, the congress at its Monday meeting in Kathmandu has tentatively termed the RPP as to have deflected from its democratic credentials.

It is indeed a tough time for the RPP and prime minister Chand to bring the party out from the allegations now being labeled by their own former colleagues.

In another front, though the government claims that it is having secret parleys with the insurgents but yet it has failed to furnish any clear proof worth mentioning that it is having the same with the rebellions.

All put together, Chand’s days are numbered. Analysts predict that after the Royal marriage ceremony comes to an end, Chand will be replaced by a new face which could be from the RPP or from the congress-K.