New politics or same old game? | Idea of Nepal with Manushi Yami Bhattarai
In this episode of Idea of Nepal, Biswas Baral, Editor of The Kathmandu Post, interviews Manushi Yami Bhattarai, a leader with the Nepal Samajbadi Party (Naya Shakti).
Bhattarai is a young politician who contested the 2017 federal elections from Kathmandu constituency number 7. Besides her active involvement in politics, she also teaches politics and gender studies at Nepal Open University and Thames College.
In this interview, Bhattarai discusses alternative forces, why these forces are increasingly right wing, the evolving understanding of the decade-long Maoist insurgency, the aspirations of Nepali youths, her experience as a woman politician, and Nepali political culture in general.
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