With the close approach of federal and provincial elections for Nov 20, 2022, the ‘No Not Again’ campaigns on social media are rapidly snowballing. It is primarily an unprepared conglomerate of intellectuals to stop the elderly leaderships for the entrenchment of competent youth leaderships. The “No Not Again” campaign is exigent to get rid of growing disenchantment with the present leaderships.
In Nepal, elections are customarily driven by the accumulation of emotions of the general public for a mammoth vote bank. Every time, voters cast votes with anticipation of some changes in return but unfortunately, the change is yet to come.
The ‘No Not Again’ is popular on social media especially in twitter and Facebook. Those candidates who believe politics is their permanent profession and call themselves people’s representatives but in effect exploit voter’s over and again are incorporated in the list of “No, not again”.
The Supreme Court has also issued an interlocutory interim order against the Election Commission not to take action against the ‘No Not Again’ campaign members. For retrospection, in 2014, the Court furnished a landmark judgment, which gave the voters the “right to reject” where they could cast negative votes if they don’t want to vote at all. Similarly, such practice has been legal in countries like India, Spain, Colombia and the US state of Nevada. Thus, the campaigners have requested the voters to say goodbye to such candidates with homage by not voting for them again.
If the ‘No not again’ campaign would dramatically lead to clinical execution in the upcoming election then, Nepal would take a leap forward becoming a mature democracy. The legal apparatus also advocates for electing competent candidates as per the voters. The present leadership-centered system is the handicap for the stability.
‘No Not Again’ is an exigent campaign to annihilate the organized loot system of repeatedly elected leaders. So, a robust candidate should be elected for the paradigm shift of transformational leaderships and prosperity to change the status-quo of habitual politics. The voters should heedfully reject incompetent leaders by using a ‘right to reject’ for the spectacular success.
