 Today we are going to talk about the political situation and the recent victory of the Left Alliance in Nepal. Madhav Kumar Nepal, recently the Left parties have won in Nepal. What do you see in the future? You know that that year, 2017, was the year of elections. After the promulgation, the constitution in 2015, and after we opted for federal, democratic public of Nepal, this is the first parliamentary election. And in this first parliamentary election, there was election for three times, the local bodies, the provincial level and the federal level, the central level. So, just six months before, there was election for the local parties. In the local body election, we got 53% of the political seat together with the Mavic Centre. Two Communist parties have more than majority in the local body, local government. And then out of the seven provinces there, we have been in majority in six provinces, so we are going to form the government in six provinces. And then in the federal structure, we were about to have two-third of the majority in the political seat in the central level. So, our party, both the parties, our Alliance is going to form the government in the near future within one month of a time, in the plus period. So, it shows the popularity of the Communist parties, the popularity of Marxism, the popularity of the communism in Nepal. So, the reason is that the party is associated with the Marxists. The party is the vanguard of the struggle of the people there. The Communist party has held three banners since its foundation in 1949. Number one is the banner of nationalism, banner of patriotism. That is one banner. So, in all the periods of crisis, the Communist party was in the forefront to fight for the national sovereignty, national dignity and national interest. Number two, we were in the forefront for the struggle for democracy, for the right of the people, for the human right of the people. So, fighting against autocracy, fighting against all sorts of dictatorship, fighting against all sorts of authoritarian regime. So, the Communist party has been synonymous with the democracy there. Though there were the forces to portray the Communist party as authoritarian party, but we all the time fought for, set our blood for, for democracy. The second one, that is banner of democracy. And the third one is banner of people's livelihood, social justice and social transformation. So, in this case also, we were all the time with the people, with the masses, uniting them, reaching their awareness, mobilizing them, uniting them and we were in the vanguard of the struggle all the time. That is why we have to keep in mind to be popular in the people's politics, to be at the central stage of politics. You need to keep in mind the sentiments of the people, the people's desire. Then you must touch the nerves of the people. If you touch the nerves of the people and act accordingly, then you will get recognition. You will get the support of the people. So, you must share real and whole with the people. If you are not with the people, then people will forget you. If you think that you are above the people, then people will reject you. So, this is the reason that the Communist Party of Nepal has been very popular there and Communist movement has been associated with the people's struggle in people's movement. Comrade Nepal went through a transition from monarchy to democracy and it was a very peaceful struggle, people led struggle. So, do you think that a lot of countries around the world can use this model to move towards democracy? Yeah, because you know that our party, the Communist Party of Nepal, UAML, Unified Marxist Lannist, that's in short UAML, has adopted a philosophy of people's multi-party democracy. It has been propounded by Comrade Madan Maddari, who was the general secretary of the party in the Fifth Party Congress. It was in 1993. So, the people have all the time have faith on the Communist Party because we have actually come to understanding, come to realize that the peaceful transformation is possible. Peaceful mass movement has the power to change the autocratic regime. The thing is, you need to get the support of the cross-section of the population. You need to give sacrifice for the change. If you are with the people, if the people are behind you, no force in the earth can defend you. That's why this people's multi-party democracy has all the basic characteristics of democracy, which has been properly used all over the world. That is, taking mandate from the people, believing in not bullet, rather than ballot, and you have to be just by the people every time, periodically. So, we believe in periodic election. We believe in the rule of the majority and minority as the opposition. So, we give recognition to the opposition. Give proper, proper respect to the opposition. Don't like to minimize or sideline them. But the thing is, it should be a responsible opposition. So, we have been in opposition in 1991 election, 1991 parliamentary election, and we became the second largest party after joining in the parliamentary election. During that period, because of our rule in all the sectors, the people have compared the two parties there. That's why in 1992, in the next parliamentary election, we emerged as the largest party, not as a majority, but the largest party. Being enlarged, we got the chance to calm the government. So, it was a minority government. So, it could not survive for a long time. It survived only for nine months. For nine months, it has done miracle. So, we have done so much popular works at the time that people started to learn respect and follow the Communist Party. That's why in the next parliamentary elections, there was a big chance of having a line-slide majority vote. But, unluckily, there was a split in the party. And we could not form the majority government. Despite that, in the local election in 1997, our party emerged as the most popular and largest majority party in the local election in 1997. So, out of the total districts of Nepal, we got elected in 75% of the districts. Out of the total municipalities in Nepal, we got elected 60% of the municipalities. Out of the total villages in Nepal, we got elected 52% of the total villages. So, even during that time, we were very popular. So, the popularity has been increasing day by day. Though there has been some ups and downs, some ups and downs, but the left-horses have come to such a situation where the majority of the people, more than 50% of the people, voted in favour of the party. So, still in this election, we saw that the people, I myself was elected by the 53% of the total population vote. So, it shows the popularity, the party and the candidates of those parties are getting support from the people. So, I think we need to keep in mind that the role we have played during the political movement and political revolution needs to be kept up. Otherwise, in the phase of economic transformation and revolution, if we will forget what we have done earlier and just test the new taste of all the facilities of the governance, then we will be forgetting about the people, we will be forgetting about the people. That's why we keep in pass on hard work, honesty, serving the people, integrating with the people, sharing will and with the people. So, these are the basics of politics that must be kept in mind. One last question. There had been reports that Indian government and its agencies had been interfering in the elections in Nepal. Previous reports are there. Do you think that such incidents are still going on? I cannot start anyone without enough evidence, but I will say that late Nepal manages its own affairs. Because we also believe on the philosophy that late others manage their own affairs. Communities with India as well, so we want to close the relation, good relation doesn't really mean that we will accept any sort of domination, interference, that is. So keep in mind, no more interference should be there, no more domination should be there, there should not be big brother attitude there, all these things should be very, very properly taken.