SY Quraishi , former Chief Election Commissioner of India, on Nepal’s federal experiment, growing concerns over political finance and the current state of the EC. The conversation was moderated by Ritika Chopra , Chief of National Bureau (Govt), The Indian Express.

Ritika Chopra: In your new book, Democracy’s Heartland, while you’ve described Nepal as a bright spot with credible elections with inclusivity in its Constitution, you have also spoken of its instability. Given the current political flux, do you see this instability as a passing phase or could this threaten the democratic experience?

When I started studying, I came across important statistics. Eight countries of the world out of 203 have 25 per cent of the world’s population. Forty per cent of the world’s democracy lives in

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