Balen Shah said, “Whatever we do, we do it in the interest of the common Nepali people, you can rest assured.”

Kathmandu. KATHMANDU — Prime Minister Balendra Shah has announced that the government would free the schools and bureaucracy from partisan politics. Making his views public through Facebook, he said that the partyization of students and bureaucracy that has been entrenched for years has destroyed the country’s system.

“The government has decided to remove these anomalies through an ordinance addressing the complaints of many journalists, leaders and the general public,” he said. According to Prime Minister Shah, carrying party flag in schools and party bags in the bureaucracy has been completely prohibited.

The Prime Minister has accused the student and employee unions of becoming ‘sleeper cells’ of political parties more than the interest of the concerned sector. He said that people’s trust in the system has been weakened due to the increase in the price of bags and flags rather than qualifications.

He claimed that the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RJP) removed politics from the institution and bureaucracy not because it could not build an organization, but to improve the quality of education and protect the dignity of the employees. “If you want, you can build a big organization in today’s day, but the past has shown that adding another partisan organization will not bring about improvement,” he wrote in his post.

“This decision will not take away anyone’s rights but will further strengthen professional freedom,” Shah said. He has pledged that the basis of appointment, transfer and promotion in the coming days would be only method, capacity and efficiency and not partisan affiliation.

He stressed that students should learn politics from their gurus and not from the crowd of leaders, while the employees should seek the path of method and not from the shadow of the leaders. The Prime Minister argues that this is not a fight against any party but an attempt to save the entire system and future.

He said that it was imperative to make the schools and bureaucracy free from infection in order to bring the country out of partisan occupation and on the institutional path. Claiming that change will come through decision and not speech, Prime Minister Shah clarified that strict steps have been taken through the ordinance as per the people’s wishes. “Whatever we do, we will do for the welfare of the people of Nepal, you can rest assured,” he said, expecting the support and trust of all the general public for this historic change.