BABBLES

By Babbler Dr Baburam Bhattarai was the chair of the constitution drafting committee in the second constituent assembly, which had written the present constitution. Within the seven years of promulgation of the constitution, those, who were involved in writing the constitution, which was said to be written by the people for the first time in the history of Nepal, have started to express dissatisfaction. Bhattarai is of the view of a directly elected executive chief. He is against the present unholy five-party alliance. He is always complaining and indicating the backdrops of the present constitution. Many political leaders believe, the election has become expensive and those business brokers and middlemen have dominated the politics. Until yesterday, they were blaming the king for all the anomalies, but today, there is no presence of the monarchy. After all, who was responsible for destroying the nation, it has become clear to all of us. In Nepal like a tiny country, thinking about a directly elected executive chief of the government is more dangerous. Today, the entire USA is divided into two factions. Such a situation may appear in Nepal if we start to elect our executive chief through a direct election. More than that, the directly elected executive chief may become a dictator and he could easily go under the foreigner’s grip. Have our leaders and political observers thought about such a threat? In the Nepali circumstance, the most appropriate and sustainable system could be a mechanism with check and balance, which could be a constitutional monarchy with Parliament elected prime minister. We don’t have other options to save the nation. Democracy under the Indian shadow! Until the “autocratic” Panchayat day, the Nepal Oil Corporation was importing crude oil from the international market at a competitive price. NOC used to hand over the crude oil to the Indian Oil Corporation and the latter used to provide us with refined petroleum products. Along with the introduction of the multiparty democracy in 1990, the government signed an agreement with the Indian government for importing refined petroleum products from the IOC instead of procuring and providing the crude oil to the IOC. There is no provision to change the agreement. Today, Russia is selling petroleum products at a discounted rate and India is enjoying the subsidized price. Contradicting is that Nepal is purchasing petroleum products at the price fixed by IOC. The IOC is fixing the price based on the international market but it is not giving the cheap fuel imported from Russia to Nepal. Nepal and Russia enjoy the best bilateral relations and Nepal could directly import fuel from Russia. Unfortunately, we cannot do so as our democratic Nepal has already fallen under the Indian shadow. Never resolving problem Again, we ask our readers for returning to the erstwhile dissolved Panchayat days. Had you ever heard about the fertilizer crisis during the rice or other seeds plantation season? Had you heard about the shortage of course books during the new educational season? In this loktantrik era, every year, we are experiencing a shortage of fertilizer and course books. This has become a permanent problem. QUOTES OF THE WEEK  
  • What could be the message decimated from protesting against placing the late King Birendra’s statue by the police only but not by the general public? Of course, the message is worshipping the foreigners and breaking the nation!
Rajesh Ahiraj
  • King Birendra is our historical pride - his high stature will be inspiring and dignified for Nepal and Nepalese wherever he is - except for foreign dogs!
Maharudra Prasad Pokharel
  • He is the feudal lord who sells mother's ornaments for establishing the university for the sons and daughters of commoners.
Sarbesh Aryal
  • King Mahendra did a serious mistake in the country where those corrupt people have become true loktantrik (democrats) who buy ornaments for their wives from the money received through corruption.
Kedra Koirala
  • People are ready to come down to the streets to overthrow this system. All that is needed is leadership.
Apil Gurung
  • Politicos have turned politics into a means of exploiting the state, not rendering service.
Dipak Gyawali
  • It is necessary to go to the polls alone among the people to test the status and strength of their party. The alliance practice of today has made it easy to politicians to enjoy power immediately.
Shailendra Thapa
  • The cheque issued by the party candidates during the local level elections have started to bounce For this reason, in some cities, including Kathmandu, candidates with no political affiliation were elected by the people.
In the forthcoming parliamentary elections, the people will get another cheque which is going to be bounced in the same way. Now, the voters should punish those fraud leaders issuing the bounced cheque. Keshab K Bhurtel
  • There are enough comments that the provincial structure is useless as there is a lot of power at the federal and local levels. Then why is this District Coordinating Committee needed? Just to distribute the share of power to the party workers?
Surya Raj Acharya
  • The one and only purpose of Sanghiyata (federalism) is to distract second-generation leaders via perks and privileges so they don't challenge the top leadership of parties or oust them via revolt!
Dipak Gyawali