(Courtesy: Krishna Giri)
I don’t think any Nepali will raise their eyebrows when they hear- “SATI LE SARAPEKO DESH”. Right from the unification, Nepali have witnessed ongoing severity in terms of governance. Power snatching by any means has become style in Nepal. I don’t want to go back to 17th century to dig the past. Rather I will go back to the recent past. 20 governments in 20 years; that's pretty impressive, and with all due respect, Maoist supremo has presently announced that another unity government is coming in weeks. Will Maoists allow MK to stay as a buffoon PM for next few weeks or they want MK to continue with his bizarre funny political career until the festive season? This remains a mystery as the ball is in Maoist court. Not just MK but UML is an amusing party. They don’t have any leaders to lead the party; at least, none who can win peoples hearts and votes. Enough assessments have been done about CA performance for various including former DPM to current PM and I should waste no time. The UML Party - neither capitalist nor communist. Simply, lost in ideology and leadership, particularity, after the rise of Maoists.
Successive failures to act in national interests have plunged the country into utter chaos. Having 20 PMs and almost 1000 ministers in past 20 years did not help to produce some appealing leaders. These couple of decades of democratic transition should have taught leaders to act above personal and party interests. How long is adequate for a democratic transition will remain a question in Nepal’s history. No one can escape from their moral obligation as all national parties have run this country in some stage. But why they failed and subsequently we failed? We can’t always blame our geographic features and neighbours. Being a Hindu Kingdom until recent past, is this is the nation that was really cursed by a widow? If yes, what is coming next? Astrologers failed to forecast the end of 240 years old Monarchy but can someone help us to find out when this anarchy is coming to an end? Is the curse going to diminish since the country has been already declared a secular state?
Raiding dance restaurants and casinos is not enough to maintain law and order in a country. Witch hunting has stretched to looters and abductors. People have lost faith in law and security imposers and started to take laws in their own hands. Lynching and beating of culprits may sound a relief for victims but is it the way a country should be operating? Who is to be blamed for? Who preached these teachings? What have become breeding grounds for up to 80 armed insurgent groups? What was the cause for which 15000 people died? And what were the reasons for the abolition of - Monarchy, Hindu state, Daura Suruwal to Nepali language?? There are thousands of questions to be answered by state. This country has been cursed by a widow but this can not be answers to all, can it?
Maobadi tried to tussle with big brother and the obvious result was the fall of the government. People knew that conventional fact long before Prachanda admitted honouring them, 'Bideshi Prabhu'. Even in his departing speech, he could not spell them out but rather, he identified them as god. Soon after their exit from government, their performances have gotten better; bringing the country into standstill, from streets to CA chamber. I beg your pardon but what an elegant way to exercise democracy. It has just been weeks since the fall of last government and we have already started to perceive new game about Tibet. Is it just India matters for us? Can’t we play a positive sum game between India and China? What are the consequences if China is annoyed? Is this is the pretext to fall yet another government? If a government can not sustain a year, what prosperity can we expect? Is this really is a democracy that we are exercising? We do not have any local governments for more than a decade and may remain the same for many years to come. This is the fundamental breach on norms of democracy. If we lookup to our main democratic figures, one should not be amazed by the fact that they all are autocrats. Why everything looks so wrong? Why this horde of people can not agree on national interests? Why they can not come together for economic and social prosperities? Why they can not agree to hold free and fair elections in all levels? Why peace and security of this country is not important to all? Is it because, “YO SATILE SARAPEKO DESH HO”?
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Monday, July 06, 2009
Deliver or Quit
(Courtesy: Dr. Hari Bansha Dulal)
It’s been more than a year since the election of Constitution Assembly (CA). On April 10, 2010, the stipulated term of the CA, which is mandated to draft a new constitution and decide the issue of federalism expires. In the last fourteen months, CA members, who draw a salary of fifty thousand Rupees, have been seen engaged in everything from infamous land grabbing and brawl within CA secretariat campus to availing services of masseuse but draft constitution and decide on the federal structure. If we a do a back-of-the-envelope calculations, six hundred one CA members have so far drawn forty two crores in salary alone. The political parties seem to appear interested in everything else but drafting a constitution and agreeing on a functionally viable federal structure. A federal structure that is fiscally sufficient to govern itself, safeguard the rights and interests within its jurisdiction, and most importantly, maintain unity in diversity.
Having a constitution also means complying with the stipulated rules. After all who wants to play by the rules in “New Nepal” except for the poor, who are bound to? At least not the major political parties. If media is to be believed, in the past six months, only 12 days were free of any kind of strikes or bandhs. The strikes or bandhs that accounted for the 166 days of lost productivity in the past six months were not called by the disgruntled silence majority, which in reality should have been the case. The largest party in the CA leads the pack in enforcing strikes. Organizations affiliated with UCPN-M, whose mother party claims to be the only force capable of bringing sociopolitical and economic transformation in the country was responsible for enforcing 39 bandhs and strikes in the month of may and June alone. It enforced 69 bandhs and strikes in the past six months. Others, who claim to be the alternative to the Maoist bullying are not very far behind. The UML and the NC organized 17 and 15 bandhs during the past six months. So if we combine the strikes and bandhs called by the major three parties, they are responsible for 101 days of lost productivity in the last six months. What does that say, if anything, about the seriousness on the part of the political parties that are responsible for solving common men’s problem and moving the nation forward?
There is a rapid decay in the sense of public service among the politicians. Sadly, the political parties are using democratic process and institutions to legitimize their undemocratic and antisocial activities aimed at achieving their ultimate goal, the maximization of rents. Lack of viable alternatives has left Nepal people used to the moral bankruptcy of the political class. You can contest elections on ethnic agendas, become a foreign minister for nine months and get away without uttering a word on the need for ethnic empowerment for nine months. The globe-trotting foreign minister is again back in action posing himself as ethnic messiah. Political insincerity of few politicians is diluting the purity of the demand for ethnic rights.
Nobody, at least not the politicians, want to have a serious constructive debate on the form of federal structure that is viable and just. The major political parties, whose leadership comprises of mostly pahadi Brahmins and Chettris do not want to raise the issue, because they clearly see their clout diminishing if ethnic federalism is realized. But they do not want to say that, at least not in public. So what they do is- give it a nationalist color. They phrase it quite nicely. Ethnic mindset is antithetical to the notion of national integrity and nationalist pride. Sounds great. Doesn’t it? But the ethnic minorities that are pushing for ethnic federalism do know where these politicians’ Mecca is located at.
Progress should be the ultimate criteria for designing a federal structure. The federal structure should be founded in administrative prudence and developmental prospects rather than petty issues of politics like ethnicity, caste, and language. It is important ensure that the poor, who are not only ethnic minorities benefit from the new structure or else the demand for the separate state is not going to go away like in India. It is important ensure that the poor, who are not only ethnic minorities benefit from the new structure or else the demand for the separate state is not going to go away like in India. The demand for separate states did not die down with the creation of Uttaranchal, Jharkhand, and Chhattisgarh, which were carved out from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and Madhya Pradesh. Currently, the demand for creation of 10 new states is lying before the Indian government. India, which was governed and governed quite effectively by British under 4 Administrative Blocks-Bombay, Madras, Calcutta and Delhi-now has 30 states. If the demand for 10 more states is met, it will have 40 states. The country which was divided along the linguistic lines has encouraged fight for language, water, and border. It did not stop there. Politicians further divided the nation along minorities, hindus, scheduled caste (SC), scheduled tribe (ST), and other backward castes (OBCs). The demand for separate state based on ethnicity to promote vote-bank politics has vitiated sociopolitical environment. In Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, the demand for Harit Pradesh and Mithilanchal is being raised. The mental portioning of India engineered by V.P. Singh is getting deeper.
Nepal should learn from Indian experience. A sincere effort towards drafting constitution and debate on federal structure should start immediately. Running away from the problem is not the solution. It will require a sincere dialogue and consensus building. Political elites of yesteryears do not want to cave in to the demands of regional parties as it will shrink their political base and bargaining potential. The regional parties do not want to compromise on anything less than “one madhesh, one pradhesh” because the very minute a regional party will agree to anything less than “one madhesh, one pradhesh” demand, other regional players will cry foul and call it a "sellout." But this game of waiting the other party to drop the ball cannot go for ever, can it?
Constitution drafting and design of the federal structure is put in back burner because of political insincerity. Remaining insincere towards people’s need and the nation’s progress while drawing a pay check at best can be called as a morally repugnant act. Either CA members should stop draining the state’s coffer or get back to the business.
(This piece was originally published on My Republica and is re-produced here with the Author's consent).
It’s been more than a year since the election of Constitution Assembly (CA). On April 10, 2010, the stipulated term of the CA, which is mandated to draft a new constitution and decide the issue of federalism expires. In the last fourteen months, CA members, who draw a salary of fifty thousand Rupees, have been seen engaged in everything from infamous land grabbing and brawl within CA secretariat campus to availing services of masseuse but draft constitution and decide on the federal structure. If we a do a back-of-the-envelope calculations, six hundred one CA members have so far drawn forty two crores in salary alone. The political parties seem to appear interested in everything else but drafting a constitution and agreeing on a functionally viable federal structure. A federal structure that is fiscally sufficient to govern itself, safeguard the rights and interests within its jurisdiction, and most importantly, maintain unity in diversity.
Having a constitution also means complying with the stipulated rules. After all who wants to play by the rules in “New Nepal” except for the poor, who are bound to? At least not the major political parties. If media is to be believed, in the past six months, only 12 days were free of any kind of strikes or bandhs. The strikes or bandhs that accounted for the 166 days of lost productivity in the past six months were not called by the disgruntled silence majority, which in reality should have been the case. The largest party in the CA leads the pack in enforcing strikes. Organizations affiliated with UCPN-M, whose mother party claims to be the only force capable of bringing sociopolitical and economic transformation in the country was responsible for enforcing 39 bandhs and strikes in the month of may and June alone. It enforced 69 bandhs and strikes in the past six months. Others, who claim to be the alternative to the Maoist bullying are not very far behind. The UML and the NC organized 17 and 15 bandhs during the past six months. So if we combine the strikes and bandhs called by the major three parties, they are responsible for 101 days of lost productivity in the last six months. What does that say, if anything, about the seriousness on the part of the political parties that are responsible for solving common men’s problem and moving the nation forward?
There is a rapid decay in the sense of public service among the politicians. Sadly, the political parties are using democratic process and institutions to legitimize their undemocratic and antisocial activities aimed at achieving their ultimate goal, the maximization of rents. Lack of viable alternatives has left Nepal people used to the moral bankruptcy of the political class. You can contest elections on ethnic agendas, become a foreign minister for nine months and get away without uttering a word on the need for ethnic empowerment for nine months. The globe-trotting foreign minister is again back in action posing himself as ethnic messiah. Political insincerity of few politicians is diluting the purity of the demand for ethnic rights.
Nobody, at least not the politicians, want to have a serious constructive debate on the form of federal structure that is viable and just. The major political parties, whose leadership comprises of mostly pahadi Brahmins and Chettris do not want to raise the issue, because they clearly see their clout diminishing if ethnic federalism is realized. But they do not want to say that, at least not in public. So what they do is- give it a nationalist color. They phrase it quite nicely. Ethnic mindset is antithetical to the notion of national integrity and nationalist pride. Sounds great. Doesn’t it? But the ethnic minorities that are pushing for ethnic federalism do know where these politicians’ Mecca is located at.
Progress should be the ultimate criteria for designing a federal structure. The federal structure should be founded in administrative prudence and developmental prospects rather than petty issues of politics like ethnicity, caste, and language. It is important ensure that the poor, who are not only ethnic minorities benefit from the new structure or else the demand for the separate state is not going to go away like in India. It is important ensure that the poor, who are not only ethnic minorities benefit from the new structure or else the demand for the separate state is not going to go away like in India. The demand for separate states did not die down with the creation of Uttaranchal, Jharkhand, and Chhattisgarh, which were carved out from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and Madhya Pradesh. Currently, the demand for creation of 10 new states is lying before the Indian government. India, which was governed and governed quite effectively by British under 4 Administrative Blocks-Bombay, Madras, Calcutta and Delhi-now has 30 states. If the demand for 10 more states is met, it will have 40 states. The country which was divided along the linguistic lines has encouraged fight for language, water, and border. It did not stop there. Politicians further divided the nation along minorities, hindus, scheduled caste (SC), scheduled tribe (ST), and other backward castes (OBCs). The demand for separate state based on ethnicity to promote vote-bank politics has vitiated sociopolitical environment. In Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, the demand for Harit Pradesh and Mithilanchal is being raised. The mental portioning of India engineered by V.P. Singh is getting deeper.
Nepal should learn from Indian experience. A sincere effort towards drafting constitution and debate on federal structure should start immediately. Running away from the problem is not the solution. It will require a sincere dialogue and consensus building. Political elites of yesteryears do not want to cave in to the demands of regional parties as it will shrink their political base and bargaining potential. The regional parties do not want to compromise on anything less than “one madhesh, one pradhesh” because the very minute a regional party will agree to anything less than “one madhesh, one pradhesh” demand, other regional players will cry foul and call it a "sellout." But this game of waiting the other party to drop the ball cannot go for ever, can it?
Constitution drafting and design of the federal structure is put in back burner because of political insincerity. Remaining insincere towards people’s need and the nation’s progress while drawing a pay check at best can be called as a morally repugnant act. Either CA members should stop draining the state’s coffer or get back to the business.
(This piece was originally published on My Republica and is re-produced here with the Author's consent).
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Failure of Mr. Makuna
(Courtesy: Kalyan Dev Bhattarai)
When I took active part in the 1990 revolution I was proud for my activities then and till now. Today I feel stupid enough to have taken part in such dirty game of power and feel sorry for respecting this power lusted corrupt so called leaders. What our politicians have been doing since last 60-70 years is known to all Nepalese people and need sno further elaboration.
The political activities since 1990 Andolan clearly showed who ever may come in the power they are same their objective is same –looting the nation, nepotism, betraying the people and selling the nation By fooling the people the so-called leaders (in my language camouflaged dacoits –leaving few exception) the main objectives of our so-called leaders is to create the enmity between and among the Nepalese people in the name of language, cast, religion, location, sex, etc and loot the nation in this or that pretext like the medical treatment, Savasad allowance "Kuti Niram " Tax free Pajero, and many many such pretexts.
What is the contribution of the Sushil Koirala for the nation to get the 2 corore worth of medical allowance for his few US visit in the name of medical treatment, from the taxpayer's money of poor Nepalese people other than he is brother of then P M G. Koirala? If this is not looting of the country's treasury, what is this? At present watching the present day politics Nepalese people feel shame, disgusted, Cheated, betrayed, deceived, and raped openly in daylight in the name of so called democracy by so called politicians who are fighting like cats and dogs for the post of lucrative ministry. Now even the small of the smallest party having one seat in assemble also demanding the position equivalent to state minister for their leader. According to the published news all the ex PM of the country have looted the costly vehicle from the project and transferred in red plate If this is not looting of the country's property what you call it? In my opinion all these ex PM should be hang to death. If this is politics what is day light robbery and looting of the country? I wonder how long the corrupt politicians think people will tolerate these camouflaged dacoits and continue to loot the nation. But there is a limit for every thing and to day people are so frustrated with these so called leaders that any time the people will start chasing the present day leaders and lunch them
Mr. Makuna is the new PM of Nepal with the blessing of south Block and support of Girja Koirala to make his pampered daughter as foreign minister and is unable to complete his ministry after 31 days of his appointment and is total failure to fulfill commitment made to the people immediately (next day) after swearing. The kidnapping for ransom is rampant, and has become a regular feature and as long as the present day nexus between the politicians and kidnappers continue there will be no improvement in the security condition of the country. What a mockery of democracy to form such ministry where the people reject more than majority.
At present there is no security, no law and order and the anarchism is visible in every corner of the country. In my opinion the fate of this country and future of nation would be much better if the ministry is selected from the street dogs because the bunch of dogs as Ministers and PM at least will be patriotic and they will not allow the Indians to encroach our land In Susta, Dang, Kalapani etc) and rape our sisters and loot the hard working farmers will not demand bribery make no false commitment and will not loot the country's treasury and be highly satisfied with the food and limited facilities provided them as ministers and the bureaucracy will not be disturbed to run the country smoothly .
In the name of democracy Nepal is getting a PM who is rejected by the people not only from one place but two places in the last election and analyst say it is unconstitutional because it is clearly mentioned that those who are not elected can not be PM of the country. If that is true the present PM is not only undemocratic but unconstitutional also. This is all happening in the so-called New Nepal and if this is the trailer of the New Nepal, what will be the real scenario of the country in coming days, any people can easily guess and start shaking with fear and uncertainties.
The fighting of last 4 weeks for the lucrative ministry by different party leaders was not only shame full but no better than the fight between the bunch of street for a piece of buffalo bones which gave me the idea of suggesting to make the ministry from the street dogs for the benefit of nation as well as people.
The last election of constitutional assembly was nothing but a mockery of the election because the system was so designed by the camouflaged dacoits that only the party representatives would be landing in the constitutional assembly. As far as my knowledge goes the people's representatives are those who are elected by the majority of the people and should get at least 50 % of the votes. If we agree to all accepted definition of peoples representative, then we can say fairly that present constitutional assembly shows not a single people's representatives (leaving few like Dr Babu Ram Bhattarai) but all party representatives who are assembly member not because they are better qualified, abele and competent or are people's choice but based on their ability of boot polishing, and greasing of their leader. If such peoples are the members of present constitutional assembly, you can not expect better than what is happening to day and forces you to worry on the future of the country, and the fate of the citizen.
It is a well-known fact that in the present constitutional assembly there are hardly any members who are people's representative in true sense, with few expectation all the present day, members of constitutional assembly are party representatives.
In multi-party system the country is run by politicians and their representative and I have no problem on that issue but how on earth, the same group who runs the country also can write the main rules to run the country (constitution). Such system is against the simple and basic logic of Constitutionalism, as the politicians will always look after their personal and partisan interest only and can never write the constitution, which is people oriented. In this context I do not see any possibility of writing the peoples constitution by the present party members of the constitutional assembly within the scheduled time. Yes they will write the constitution which will be neither the people oriented nor will cover the people's interest, aspirations, wishes and nation's requirements but will be just a document prepared to loot the nation openly in different context as before. In a small country like Nepal the politicians agreed to put the 601 members in the constitutional assembly and in my opinion this is nothing but a day light robbery of the nation's treasury by the politician (camouflaged dacoits). To expect people's constitution by such bunch of thugs is nothing but intellectual bankruptcy.
I do not know what the definition of Democracy is for the country's political parties, but the way the present President over rode the assembly elected P.M 's decision of sacking the army chief and overruled the government decision and gave order to the sacked army chief to continue is nothing but the raping of the democracy and buttering the army chief to safe guard his chair. According to the statement published by the president's office, what ever he did was on the request of 18 political parties and petition of the army chief: after this, no further discussion was required on this issue. The act of reemploying the sacked army chief by present president is unconstitutional, undemocratic, in my opinion and the president should be impeached for this unconstitutional act, if there is any tint of democratic norm in the present day members of constitutional assembly, which I doubt very much.
The present day political scenario is created, groomed, and mechanized by the Indian politicians and it is clear to every body that the effort of Mr. Sitaram Yechuri to complete the 12 point resolution between the Maoist and SPA, and to bring the Maoist in the power in spite of Indian Congress disagreement. However during the mentioned period the Sitaram Yechuri was playing important role in the stability of Indian government and Indian Congress did not interfere in the activities of Yechuri and at present when the Indian election gave such a result where Yechuri was no more important to Indian Congress to stay in power, it started its machination to dethrone the Maoist from Power and instigated the army and its puppet like NC and UML to go against the Maoist decision of sacking the army chief, which they had agreed before the result of the Indian election was out. This is what I called the political raping
The other very important fact to remember is that the party like NC and UML were dead against the constitutional assembly election and the republican state, but they were forced to accept both of these demands of the Maoist due to the pressure of the Nepalese people, and the leadership of both the parties (NC and UML) are yet to accept the realities and still consider the Army chief as superior to them and is the de facto king's representative and can not be expected to go against the army chief until the South Block instructs them to do so. In this context, it is to remember here that as it took couple of years for the NC and UML to follow the people's wish of republican state and constitutional assembly election, similarly it will take some time for the NC and UML to accept the wishes of the people of establishing the peoples supremacy over the army, however they have to pay heavy political price for that. Further neither NC nor UML leaders have explained to the people why they differed with the Maoist demand of the republican state and constitutionally assembly then , which they accepted after getting the thrashing from the Indian leaders and in this context I see the NC and UML leaders are fully responsible for the unnecessary death of more than 10 000 innocent Nepalese people during the period of peoples war and these leaders should be put to trial for the genocide
I remember very well when I publicly expressed my opinion (I was the first Nepali to express this opinion publicly) that the king should be removed by referendum, the present day leaders who claim them as the republican supporters were writing against me and threatening in phone and charging me as a supporter of Maoist. This is the political bankruptcy of the present day parties in Nepal. The NC and UML who opposed the constitutional assembly election neither have said a single word why and how they changed their opinion today, nor have explained the political reason for this 180 degree turn. This shows clearly that the Nepalese politics is no better than the prostitution. For the sake of power, the present day leaders are ready to do any thing, say any thing tie them with any force, change their opinion 10 times a day and this is the only country where the politics do not require any logic, ideology, dedication, education, belief, responsibility and can loot the nation freely with out any fear of legal action.
Madhab Nepal, who bowed down to king with coin, and supported and participated in the king's autocratic ruling saying the regression is half refined and lost from two places in the last election is new PM of the country. In my opinion 11th Jestha 2066 when he, took oath of PM from the present President who overruled unconstitutionally the decision of assembly elected PM is the darkest day in the history of the democratic Nepal. In my opinion all democracy loving citizen will remember this day as a very sad dark and politically shameful day and as a Nepalese citizen who participated actively during the last two revolutions all will feel shame for having followed such a crook people as leader.
From the activities of last few weeks one can say without any hesitations now that these corrupt leaders cannot write the new constitution, as they are in politics only to loot the nation and to expect constitution from such crooks will only be a intellectual bankruptcy
Due to all such political stupidity, wrong power hungry decisions, un ethical machinations, and undemocratic activities, whether we like or not, wish or not, the political activities of the so-called leaders of the country is taking the country to that point where the Nepalese people will have no choice but be forced to start another revolution where the tire will be not burn in the every corner of the country but the so-called leaders will be burnt alive. I can only wish for the "wisdom to prevail "in the present day power hungry corrupt so-called leaders (camouflaged dacoit) and that impending revolution could be averted in time without any further blood shed. Lets hope for the best and wish the common sense would come to the so-called leaders.
When I took active part in the 1990 revolution I was proud for my activities then and till now. Today I feel stupid enough to have taken part in such dirty game of power and feel sorry for respecting this power lusted corrupt so called leaders. What our politicians have been doing since last 60-70 years is known to all Nepalese people and need sno further elaboration.
The political activities since 1990 Andolan clearly showed who ever may come in the power they are same their objective is same –looting the nation, nepotism, betraying the people and selling the nation By fooling the people the so-called leaders (in my language camouflaged dacoits –leaving few exception) the main objectives of our so-called leaders is to create the enmity between and among the Nepalese people in the name of language, cast, religion, location, sex, etc and loot the nation in this or that pretext like the medical treatment, Savasad allowance "Kuti Niram " Tax free Pajero, and many many such pretexts.
What is the contribution of the Sushil Koirala for the nation to get the 2 corore worth of medical allowance for his few US visit in the name of medical treatment, from the taxpayer's money of poor Nepalese people other than he is brother of then P M G. Koirala? If this is not looting of the country's treasury, what is this? At present watching the present day politics Nepalese people feel shame, disgusted, Cheated, betrayed, deceived, and raped openly in daylight in the name of so called democracy by so called politicians who are fighting like cats and dogs for the post of lucrative ministry. Now even the small of the smallest party having one seat in assemble also demanding the position equivalent to state minister for their leader. According to the published news all the ex PM of the country have looted the costly vehicle from the project and transferred in red plate If this is not looting of the country's property what you call it? In my opinion all these ex PM should be hang to death. If this is politics what is day light robbery and looting of the country? I wonder how long the corrupt politicians think people will tolerate these camouflaged dacoits and continue to loot the nation. But there is a limit for every thing and to day people are so frustrated with these so called leaders that any time the people will start chasing the present day leaders and lunch them
Mr. Makuna is the new PM of Nepal with the blessing of south Block and support of Girja Koirala to make his pampered daughter as foreign minister and is unable to complete his ministry after 31 days of his appointment and is total failure to fulfill commitment made to the people immediately (next day) after swearing. The kidnapping for ransom is rampant, and has become a regular feature and as long as the present day nexus between the politicians and kidnappers continue there will be no improvement in the security condition of the country. What a mockery of democracy to form such ministry where the people reject more than majority.
At present there is no security, no law and order and the anarchism is visible in every corner of the country. In my opinion the fate of this country and future of nation would be much better if the ministry is selected from the street dogs because the bunch of dogs as Ministers and PM at least will be patriotic and they will not allow the Indians to encroach our land In Susta, Dang, Kalapani etc) and rape our sisters and loot the hard working farmers will not demand bribery make no false commitment and will not loot the country's treasury and be highly satisfied with the food and limited facilities provided them as ministers and the bureaucracy will not be disturbed to run the country smoothly .
In the name of democracy Nepal is getting a PM who is rejected by the people not only from one place but two places in the last election and analyst say it is unconstitutional because it is clearly mentioned that those who are not elected can not be PM of the country. If that is true the present PM is not only undemocratic but unconstitutional also. This is all happening in the so-called New Nepal and if this is the trailer of the New Nepal, what will be the real scenario of the country in coming days, any people can easily guess and start shaking with fear and uncertainties.
The fighting of last 4 weeks for the lucrative ministry by different party leaders was not only shame full but no better than the fight between the bunch of street for a piece of buffalo bones which gave me the idea of suggesting to make the ministry from the street dogs for the benefit of nation as well as people.
The last election of constitutional assembly was nothing but a mockery of the election because the system was so designed by the camouflaged dacoits that only the party representatives would be landing in the constitutional assembly. As far as my knowledge goes the people's representatives are those who are elected by the majority of the people and should get at least 50 % of the votes. If we agree to all accepted definition of peoples representative, then we can say fairly that present constitutional assembly shows not a single people's representatives (leaving few like Dr Babu Ram Bhattarai) but all party representatives who are assembly member not because they are better qualified, abele and competent or are people's choice but based on their ability of boot polishing, and greasing of their leader. If such peoples are the members of present constitutional assembly, you can not expect better than what is happening to day and forces you to worry on the future of the country, and the fate of the citizen.
It is a well-known fact that in the present constitutional assembly there are hardly any members who are people's representative in true sense, with few expectation all the present day, members of constitutional assembly are party representatives.
In multi-party system the country is run by politicians and their representative and I have no problem on that issue but how on earth, the same group who runs the country also can write the main rules to run the country (constitution). Such system is against the simple and basic logic of Constitutionalism, as the politicians will always look after their personal and partisan interest only and can never write the constitution, which is people oriented. In this context I do not see any possibility of writing the peoples constitution by the present party members of the constitutional assembly within the scheduled time. Yes they will write the constitution which will be neither the people oriented nor will cover the people's interest, aspirations, wishes and nation's requirements but will be just a document prepared to loot the nation openly in different context as before. In a small country like Nepal the politicians agreed to put the 601 members in the constitutional assembly and in my opinion this is nothing but a day light robbery of the nation's treasury by the politician (camouflaged dacoits). To expect people's constitution by such bunch of thugs is nothing but intellectual bankruptcy.
I do not know what the definition of Democracy is for the country's political parties, but the way the present President over rode the assembly elected P.M 's decision of sacking the army chief and overruled the government decision and gave order to the sacked army chief to continue is nothing but the raping of the democracy and buttering the army chief to safe guard his chair. According to the statement published by the president's office, what ever he did was on the request of 18 political parties and petition of the army chief: after this, no further discussion was required on this issue. The act of reemploying the sacked army chief by present president is unconstitutional, undemocratic, in my opinion and the president should be impeached for this unconstitutional act, if there is any tint of democratic norm in the present day members of constitutional assembly, which I doubt very much.
The present day political scenario is created, groomed, and mechanized by the Indian politicians and it is clear to every body that the effort of Mr. Sitaram Yechuri to complete the 12 point resolution between the Maoist and SPA, and to bring the Maoist in the power in spite of Indian Congress disagreement. However during the mentioned period the Sitaram Yechuri was playing important role in the stability of Indian government and Indian Congress did not interfere in the activities of Yechuri and at present when the Indian election gave such a result where Yechuri was no more important to Indian Congress to stay in power, it started its machination to dethrone the Maoist from Power and instigated the army and its puppet like NC and UML to go against the Maoist decision of sacking the army chief, which they had agreed before the result of the Indian election was out. This is what I called the political raping
The other very important fact to remember is that the party like NC and UML were dead against the constitutional assembly election and the republican state, but they were forced to accept both of these demands of the Maoist due to the pressure of the Nepalese people, and the leadership of both the parties (NC and UML) are yet to accept the realities and still consider the Army chief as superior to them and is the de facto king's representative and can not be expected to go against the army chief until the South Block instructs them to do so. In this context, it is to remember here that as it took couple of years for the NC and UML to follow the people's wish of republican state and constitutional assembly election, similarly it will take some time for the NC and UML to accept the wishes of the people of establishing the peoples supremacy over the army, however they have to pay heavy political price for that. Further neither NC nor UML leaders have explained to the people why they differed with the Maoist demand of the republican state and constitutionally assembly then , which they accepted after getting the thrashing from the Indian leaders and in this context I see the NC and UML leaders are fully responsible for the unnecessary death of more than 10 000 innocent Nepalese people during the period of peoples war and these leaders should be put to trial for the genocide
I remember very well when I publicly expressed my opinion (I was the first Nepali to express this opinion publicly) that the king should be removed by referendum, the present day leaders who claim them as the republican supporters were writing against me and threatening in phone and charging me as a supporter of Maoist. This is the political bankruptcy of the present day parties in Nepal. The NC and UML who opposed the constitutional assembly election neither have said a single word why and how they changed their opinion today, nor have explained the political reason for this 180 degree turn. This shows clearly that the Nepalese politics is no better than the prostitution. For the sake of power, the present day leaders are ready to do any thing, say any thing tie them with any force, change their opinion 10 times a day and this is the only country where the politics do not require any logic, ideology, dedication, education, belief, responsibility and can loot the nation freely with out any fear of legal action.
Madhab Nepal, who bowed down to king with coin, and supported and participated in the king's autocratic ruling saying the regression is half refined and lost from two places in the last election is new PM of the country. In my opinion 11th Jestha 2066 when he, took oath of PM from the present President who overruled unconstitutionally the decision of assembly elected PM is the darkest day in the history of the democratic Nepal. In my opinion all democracy loving citizen will remember this day as a very sad dark and politically shameful day and as a Nepalese citizen who participated actively during the last two revolutions all will feel shame for having followed such a crook people as leader.
From the activities of last few weeks one can say without any hesitations now that these corrupt leaders cannot write the new constitution, as they are in politics only to loot the nation and to expect constitution from such crooks will only be a intellectual bankruptcy
Due to all such political stupidity, wrong power hungry decisions, un ethical machinations, and undemocratic activities, whether we like or not, wish or not, the political activities of the so-called leaders of the country is taking the country to that point where the Nepalese people will have no choice but be forced to start another revolution where the tire will be not burn in the every corner of the country but the so-called leaders will be burnt alive. I can only wish for the "wisdom to prevail "in the present day power hungry corrupt so-called leaders (camouflaged dacoit) and that impending revolution could be averted in time without any further blood shed. Lets hope for the best and wish the common sense would come to the so-called leaders.
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