Madhav Kumar Nepal, the former Prime Minister of Nepal, explains the politics around US interests in the region in the light of the controversial Millennium Challenge Corporation.

Madhav Kumar talks about the ongoing political instability in the country, the threat posed by the rising influence of the far right, and the path ahead for the left to defend Nepal’s socialist and secular values enshrined in the constitution.

Dahal, of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre), will be prime minister for two-and-a-half years after which he will be succeeded by his erstwhile rival K.P. Oli of Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Leninist)