KATHMANDU: The CPN (UML) has officially labeled the first 100 days of the government led by Balendra (Balen) Shah a complete failure, accusing the administration of abandoning its core promises to pursue cheap publicity and selective political vendettas.

In a comprehensive six-point review issued Friday, UML General Secretary Shankar Pokharel claimed that the government has severely undermined the rule of law, crippled the economy, and institutionalized administrative ad-hocism instead of implementing systemic reforms.

According to the opposition party, the administration has strayed into constitutional and federal deviation by attempting to amend the constitution through an opaque, unconsulted task force while centralizing authority within the Prime Minister’s office rather than empowering provincial bodies.

The UML further charged that the government’s anti-corruption drive is merely a facade for political retribution, pointing to the hasty arrests of opposition leaders like UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli without immediate indictments, even as the administration shields its own controversial ministers from investigations over illegal asset hoarding.

The review also condemned the government’s domestic and civic policies, specifically highlighting the “bulldozer terror” deployed against Kathmandu’s landless settlers without providing promised alternative housing, as well as the complete neglect of small cooperative victims and farmers left without fertilizer.

On the global stage, the UML slammed the Prime Minister’s diplomatic conduct as weak and surrender-oriented, taking severe exception to his public remarks characterizing Nepal as a “buffer state,” which the party claims compromises the historical pride and sovereignty of the independent nation.