Nepal, May 2 -- The lessons of history help plan the future roadmap.

BP Koirala was the first elected Prime Minister of Nepal. In the first ever general elections held in Nepal in 1959, his party Nepali Congress obtained two thirds majority in the House of Representatives. Threatened by his several progressive policies and programmes announced and initiated, King Mahendra known for his congenital instincts for unrivaled powers, dismantled the Parliamentary system of governance on December 15, 1960, and sent elected Prime Minister Koirala, just in power for eighteen months of his five year term, to rigorous imprisonment for eight long years for no reason and fault. It was an arrest of an idea, the silencing of an idea by throwing him behi...