Shaping change: the smart way

Giving change-expectations a working form and practical shape in times following Gen Z Revolution is a public need today. It is also essential for returning the country to normalcy and stability. For this, all stakeholders of democracy, national interest and public aspirations should play their role meaningfully and cooperatively. The forthcoming March 5 parliamentary election opens one smart opportunity for all stakeholders to make their role effective and result-oriented. Gen Z leaders ranging from activists to visionaries could contribute to it by campaigning vigorously for their candidates to get more seats in 275-member-House of Representatives. That provision would enable them to preside better over the change they expected out of the revolution they launched. That path would prove a better alternative than pressing the Interim Government now to do things it cannot do because of its specific assignment issued to tackle special political crisis. Old political parties particularly Nepali Congress, CPN UML and then Maoist Centre, now merged into Nepal Communist Party, could utilize the election as an opportunity to restore public trust they lost over the past decade through self-centred transactional politics and nonperformance. All other parties represented in the dissolved parliament could approach people for fresh mandate with pledge for fulfilling people’s expectations reflected in the Gen Z revolution. The same strategy could be adopted by the political dispensations formed after the Gen Z revolution. Independent candidates could also benefit from the polls because they could present before voters their specific way of functioning in post-Gen Z revolution- times. Once the parliament is formed through the mandate of people it could really focus on smart way to translate Gen Z vision into workable plan and programme. This way the change sought by Gen Z revolution particularly its martyrs, wounded participants and well-wishers would be legitimately translated into action. This way, of course, demands from the change-seekers some patience for democratic process, some understanding of limitation of an Interim Government, some appreciation of legitimate move to realize vision and some heart not to deny any political party opportunity to go to people. Because youths grasp this better, and others have also started absorbing it, all hope a new governance-era would emerge out of the election.