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cultural rights and social security and, of course, human security. It is strongly believed that, without freedom, no other factor will help in the peace building process and there will be no human security.

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people and equality in the nation and, thus, by ensuring such an environment, political parties can help in saving democracy in the nation. He further states that the political leaders are trying to draft the constitution along with the elected CA, and it is highly likely that the leaders will ensure that the new constitution has a sharp democratic focus. Ram Karki states that, in order to achieve democracy, the support of oppressed communities is a must, and they should be empowered accordingly. He also stated that the focus is on federalism rather than grouping on the basis of ethnicity or religion.

Kul Acharya makes a similar observation and is of the same view that having a federal state is the right step in the direction of achieving democracy and that political leaders must include such clauses in the constitution. Dolendra Khadka states that, if political leaders make federalism in terms of an ethnic base or a linguistic base, there is the possibility of ethnic conflict in Nepal, which is going to hinder the goal of democracy in the nation. Thus,

political leaders should not try to divide the nation on the basis of these factors and see them as one, whether it is about their rights or any other thing. In this way, democracy in the nation may be saved by the leaders. Further, he adds that political leaders should not try to replace kings and enjoy luxuries like them. The death of the king culture is a must to ensure

democracy in the nation. Puspa Kamal Dahal also notes, like most respondents, that there must be federalism, which would be free from caste-based domination. He states that no one should be threatened by any other groups or even from the political power of the state, which would enhance democracy in the nation.

In regards to democratization process, Som Prasad Gauchan mentions that the 1990 political scenarios were main reasons that Nepal democratization faced problems. He says,

“Due to political instable situation, economical gap between the haves and haves not was increasing, which made the people disappointed.” This caused the conflict. Bikash Lamsal, concerning the democratization process problem, says that he “saw that the problem in

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leadership – they are incomplete to follow the rule regulation and lack certain moral characteristics. Since long single and autocratic system ruled, the country and we have the effects of that system. From this view our leadership is not able to face the problem of our democracy.”

The lack of solid leadership of Nepali democratization is an idea that faces challenges.

Amrit Devkota, emphasizes Nepal political history and movements that were held during the course of Nepal politics and which did not provide change in people’s lives, which is why they suffered from time to time. Chandra Kant Gyawali points out that the problems of democratization process in Nepal lie in the inability to hold elections for the formation of parliament, as well as the formation of the local bodies. PM. K.P. Oli says, “Nepal feudal, autocratic, family base autocratic role made gap among the Nepali people. By this reason Nepal was behind the economic development.” This brought social awareness to people late and the lack of progressive and popular parties makes for a short time of practices of popular democracy in Nepal democracy, leading to unstable democracy. His observation is that compared to the cases of other countries, Nepal's democratic practice failed often, which is our bitter history. Those are the obstacles for the further institutionalization of democracy in Nepal.

There is indeed a great political achievement in the country with the overwhelming support of political leaders. The leaders are the ones who become an example in the

community at first. He or she has a great responsibity towards society. They perform duties for the welfare of society, keeping in the mind that they get positive indications from the people. Once they are addressed unanimously in the society and community, they will be more responsible. Eventually, they have the capability to be a political leader when they are supported and when democracy has been institutionalized and adopted by the country. We cannot deny the hardships of political leaders, in light of the ground reality. There is no doubt

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that democracy is always in favor of raising voices for the safeguard and promotion of civil rights. These awareness campaigns have been carried out by the political leaders. In

democracy, there is proper use of the power of state, which is ensured already. Political leaders try to guarantee will and aspirations of the citizens through democracy. Hence, political leaders save democracy by applying their optimum performance. There is political consensus and consciousness within most of the eligible citizens. It means the political leaders have played the vital role.