(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.
These are the opinions of individuals with shared interests on Nepal..... the views are the writers' alone (unless otherwise stated) and do not reflect those of any organizations to which contributors are professionally affiliated. The objective of the material is to facilitate a range of perspectives to contemplate, deliberate and moderate the progression of democratic discourse in Nepali politics.
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Quiet a bold writing except an opinion to have a referendum on monarchy. This must be the reason behind the posting this material. Makune is not a bad person, he is simply a laughing stock. He was a wannabe prime minister, therefore, UML has decided to fulfil his "ICHHA". Once that ichha is over and he will be out. So let us not be so harsh on him.
Dwarika Dhungel/Kathmandu
Kalayanji has come out with another bombshell, which l find him firing occasionally. He has every right to express and write what he thinks on contemporary issue. Therefore, without commenting on his feeling towards our leaders, let me make following some points, which readers might like to respond and comment to set the ball rolling:
1. Nepal has never been so weak and helpless as she is now in her modern history. Who is responsible for such a state of affairs and what can be done to ensure that Nepal does not loose her independence in real sense?
2. Whether our leaders could not have 12 points agreement signed in Chumang not Delhi?
3. Whether there was a need to have CA of 600 + whereas country of India's size has a lower house with 540+ ?
4. Whether PM Prachanda was given correct advise in terms of process to be followed to sack the COAC? Whether the midnight letter of President Yadav was not a wrong decision to redress a procedurally wrong action of the PM Prachanda's government
5. Whether the behavior CPN Maoist ministers, except some exception, including those of PM Prachanda was any different from that of the ministers of the earlier governments?
6. Is there any other country than Nepal where there is Maoist Civil Society, NC civil society, CPN UML civil society, so on and so forth?
7. Is there any country other than Nepal where senior civil servants are labeled as NC aligned civil servant, CPN Maoist aligned, CPN UML aligned so on so forth ? Should civil servants feel proud of being called NC, CPN UML, and or CPN Maoist supporters despite the fact they have the right to caste the votes as per their wish during the
election ?
By raising these questions to all including Kalyanji, I am trying to find out whether it was because of our mindset or working style or something else we have made the mockery of democracy in the name of democracy. And if Madhav Nepalji or any other ji who are or were at the helm of affairs behaved in the manner as others Nepalese did and who consider themselves as knowledgeable and have the capacity to lead the country towards a destination – which some call raderless destination as a result we are in the present state of affairs. And country is at a very weak condition. I do not know the answers of these questions. But I do believe that people did not do harm to the country by participating in 1990 against the then system. They had fought for a cause, to which we have to salute. Their expectation was that post 1990 Nepal would give birth to a statesman of stature like Nelson Mandela who would lead Nepal towards prosperity and be able to secure a place that is with pride and dignity in the comity of nations. I thought people who sacrificed their lives during the second Jana andolan, must have wished for such a Nepal? When, how and who could create such Nepal? is a moot question I am asking myself but does not have the answer, In this context, Madhavji or anyji, to me is a passing phenomena. Every body knows who is pulling the string from behind. We are just on lookers. So may I request all those who love their country Nepal, start discussing the said issue and try to have the answers to above questions so that we do not have to criticize democracy and pass the remark Makune as a failure case.
We have no one to blame but ourselves as we are the ones who voted the politicians to power who have written the interim constitution in their favour so that anyone whether elected or not can be the President, Prime Minister, etc.
The introduction of western system of democracy has meant for the Nepalese people that they are free to whatever they want to do, whether ethically right or wrong. Only Lord Pasupatinath can redeem and save our nation. Let us pray for salvation.
Crying over split milk is easy and lokking from the hindsight is heart breaking. I will walk the plank here. What do you mean by King's autocratic rule? and can't you see the dissolution of so-called- savasad and free citizenship distribution- all design by India. The increase in number of MPs means no real power exist in the house so India can twist & turn aka Makune,Prachandes and Girjas as they wish so the blessing does not figure but token of appreciation is what Makune got and he is thankful for it by not speaking what he really needs to. Large number of citizenship distribution was the creation of Madhesi parties who are now seeking" One pardesh".
Degrading the local (king) was easy but extracting oneself from the enslavement of India will be another.
The failure is not of Makune but people like you who are first to throw stone and then regret later. A true Nepali style.
Pravin
Rather than blaming some one "pulling the strings" we, ourselves are to be blamed for the current mess. But the problem is that we, ourselves included rajabadis like ex-bureaucrats with the word "rat" inside, khaobadis like pseudo-consultants, and opportunists. These people never bother about what they did or were doing when they were in power, instead blame the present mess.
Again Dwarika Dhungel with one more point to add to his list of questions:
Point No 8:
In a multi party democracy, every body has to have the right to caste his/her vote on the basis of his/her own choice. But in relation to the analysis of a theme, can we not create a cadre of intellectuals and analysts who make their point of views on a case by case on the basis of pros and cons of each issue. And do not behave, write or speak like a NC, CPN UML and United CPN Maoists analyst or intellectual.
"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,..."
The "pressure of the Nepalese people"! Rubbish! The Nepali people were never consulted as to whether the Nation should be republican or not. As we all know, the nation became republican through back-room horse-trading, i.e Girija, then PM, being promised the first Presidency of Nepal by the Maoists. Let us not fool ourselves by saying that the Nepali people wanted a republic.
As for the "unconstitutional" move of the President in re-instating COAS Katwal, what is so "constitutional" about the Maoists unilaterally sacking the COAS without consensus from other parties? And let us not forget that the Maoists have their PLA and YCL, their own private army; so their talk of civilian supremacy is utter hypocrisy.
Agree with much of what Horatio states. But his analysis misses one key point, namely, Mr. Gyanendra Shah's undoubted contribution to Nepal being declared a republic. You got to give it to the man, he blew it, big time - for the monarchy.
To say people made the change is like saying cow flew over the moon. They (Girjas and the gang)treated us as a Bheda, used our name, and abused never given power to them.
And so called-civil-society and intellectuals ( all paid in kind and monies) never raised the issue of us but only their self serving interest.
Its all plain to see- so no more tjreorizing and giving words that is not worth an ounce of Nepali soil.
I also agree with Horatio but Gyanendra is a freaking idiot. As a guardian of the consitution and the insitution of monarchy, the fool had no right to jeapordize both at the expense of his personal hubris and over-inflated ego. I will do everything I can to see that this man and his offspring remian out of power for as long as I live.
Dear Anon, get off blaming Gyanendra. His audacity to remain quite even when his crown was stake was a sign of his better interest to this nation which his forefathers built. Can you say the same thing about so-called- netas (mostly bhauns). For sake of a chair, they are ready to compromise the very notion of statehood. Why has a nation become a slave to party politics? Its because people like you see only from their self serving interest or vengence which are misplaced in the first place. The useful idiots are self proclaiming, jilted and have lost the sight of bigger picture.
Mr Bhattarai rightly says that for the past 50-60 years the political parties and the "netas" have done nothing but to create division and conflict in Nepal. Ironically, Mr Bhattarai and his likes did not realize it when King Mahendra said the very thing in 1960s justifying his coup. Bhattarai himself admits that he did work to bring this netas to power, we all know that it was during UML's reign in the past that Kalyan ji was posted in RNAC and other cushiony positions. I personally feel that either Mr Bhattarai has some kind of short memory syndrom or that he is just a dim witted person. The damage is done Mr Bhattrai too bad you did not realize it in time..now keep on crying over the spilled milk. To bad..tsh tsh...poor Nepal and all those people who understood all this prior to 1990 and were unable to do anything.
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