(TibetanReview.net, Mar12’26) – In a dramatic reversal of decade-long political dominance, the Rastriya Janamorcha has lost in its traditional stronghold of Baglung, a hill district in Gandaki Province, in the Mar 5 poll in Nepal’s general election, reported the kathmandupost.com Mar 10. The solidly Nepali-speaking district is the bastion of this leftist party. The party’s chairman, Chitra Bahadur KC, has blamed foreign influence, by which he meant not China, but the USA, supposedly acting through the Dalai Lama, for his party’s humiliating loss.
Despite having an electoral alliance with the Nepali Communist Party, one of the two main communist parties of Nepal, its candidate, Krishn...





