Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak has said autocracy cannot be an alternative to democracy at all. Nepali society has been accustomed to democratic values, so sliding back to autocracy is unacceptable, he added.

Minister Lekhak, who is also a Nepali Congress leader, was speaking at an interaction organized by his party's constituency-3 working committee in Rupandehi. Nepal cannot backtrack, he reiterated.

"Nepali people believe in democracy, Nepal is moving forward with democratic system,” he said.

He, however, admitted weaknesses in present delivery. The people's plight cannot be taken advantage of for disrupting the system, Lekhak asserted.