Despite the high-flying populist rhetoric and promise of a "New Nepal," the facts paint a very different portrait of the Nepal that currently exists. The Maoists appear to have wholeheartedly adopted their predecessors' practice of exercising nepotism, without repercussion, without accountability and with complete impunity.
Given the facts listed below, the Maoist Party appears increasingly like Girija Prasad Koirala's Nepali Congress and much less like the stalwarts of progressive politics the Maoists portray themselves to be. From the ashes of the Shah Dynasty, appears a "Dahal-Bhattarai Dynasty" in the making. In the Maoists' "New Nepal," the only qualification one needs to be in power it appears, is blood relations with a Maoist leader - if this isn't feudalism at its best, what is?
More to the point, is this ultimately what 14,000 Nepalis had to die for (and over a 100,000 families had to be displaced for)? Is this what the so-called Maoist revolution was all about - the rise to power for a handful of of power-hungry elite? It certainly appears that this this is the end of the much hyped Maoist revolution, or as many refer to it, as the Maoists' terror campaign to usurp State power.
The kin of Maoist strong man and his second in command who currently enjoy employment at the expense of Nepali and International tax payers are listed below:
Pushpa Kamal Dahal's (a.k.a Prachanda) Family Members in Positions of Power:
- Samir Dahal (Under-Secretary of The PM's office), son of Prachanda's younger brother Narayan Dahal.
- Ganga Dahal (Officer of the PM's office), Prachanda's younger daughter (who is also an Indian citizen).
- Gangaram Dahal (un-appointed foreign relations officer), Prachanda's own brother
- Renu Pathak (CA member), Prachanda's daughter
- Arjun Pathak (Officer of CA), Prachanda's son-in-law
- Prakash Dahal (Prime Minister's PA/accountant), Prachanda's son, salary equal to the Under-Secretary.
- Narayan Dahal (CA member), Prachanda's nephew.
- Thakur Bhatta (Prachanda's brother-in-law), Another son-in-law (contractor of Chitwan Cantonment)
- Hisila Yami (Tourist Minister), Baburam's wife.
- Taranaj Pandey (PM's adviser), Baburam's nephew.
- Praya Yami (National Planning Commission), Hisila's older sister
- Timila Yami (Chairperson of Drinking Water Project), Hisila's older sister
- Chirik Shova (member of Kathmandu Drinking Water), Baburam's older sister
- Baburam's younger brother (Tariff -fixing Committee), Head of Kathmandu Drinking water.
2 comments:
Isn’t the point that if the individuals involved had been non Brahmin or Newar, such relationships would have been touted as the very progressiveness of New Nepal? If not saved from themselves, would the SeTaMaGuRaLis or the Madhesis have acted any differently? So which pot is calling what kettle inclusionary or exclusionary?
Yeah, wishes were horses
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