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Kathmandu: Nepal’s Prime Minister Balendra Shah has defended the government’s decision to abolish student and employee organizations associated with political parties and has given clarification on this.

His argument is that the government has decided to abolish these organizations in order to reform the system by ending the partisanship that has become entrenched in the educational institutions and employee system for years.

While speaking through social media on Tuesday morning, Prime Minister Shah said that student and employee organizations had become ‘sleeper cells’ of political parties rather than professional interests, hence this new decision has been taken in the interest of both employees and students.

He wrote, “The public’s confidence in the entire system has been weakened due to greater reach than merit and increase in importance of bag and flag more than capacity. Therefore, a clear decision was necessary – prohibition of party flag in educational institutions and party bag in employee system.”

He says that this new system does not take away anyone’s rights but will further strengthen professional freedom. Now the basis of appointment, transfer and promotion will not be political proximity but rules, qualification and efficiency – he also made it clear.

He said, “This step is not a fight against any particular party but an effort to take the country out of partisan capture and onto an institutional path. Change comes not through speeches but through decisions. Whatever we do, we do it in the interest of the general public.”