By P.R. Pradhan
We don’t know, when and how another people’s movement is going to take place, but it is obvious.
The nation is going to vote for the leadership in the local bodies on Friday. Sure, the new team will come to the local governments but we cannot be optimistic about them. There is a five-party alliance against UML and also UML has developed alliances with other political parties in different local bodies. The alliance is aimed at cornering, or, if possible, finishing UML. Besides, the parties in the alliance have no further vision except for electing wives, daughters and sons in the local bodies.
Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba said that he had advised Pushpakamal Dahal Prachanda for Renu Dahal’s candidature for the mayor’s post in Bharatpur, Chitwan. Similarly, Deuba has publicly disclosed that he had also suggested Prakashman Singh for giving candidature by his wife Sirjana Sing for the mayor’s post in Kathmandu Metropolis Corporation. Deuba’s advice is aimed at securing an election ticket for his wife Dr Arju Rana Deuba in the election of the member of the federal parliament. Deuba’s idea is to transform the party of leadership’s wives and daughters by sidelining those leaders who have sacrificed for the party for a long time. Prachanda is also practising the same.
The idea of the alliance is based on constituting a political syndicate of those weak political parties already discarded by the voters and ruling people by practising rampant loot. They don’t talk about strengthening the corruption control and investigation bodies, they don’t talk about economic prosperity and stopping our youth from going abroad for dirty and dangerous jobs. But they are claiming that they would increase allowances for the senior citizens, widows and others from the nation’s treasury. They have not talked about increasing revenue by opening industries, supporting farmers and developing markets for agricultural products.
Odd election:
Prime Minister Deuba has warned that if the NC activists won’t vote for the common candidate, they will be suspended from the party. He has publicly asked his party workers not to cast vote on the “tree” election symbol of the Nepali Congress but asked the voters to cast vote for “hammer and sickle”. The old and historical party Nepali Congress has already lost its vision for the nation as the party supremo has become self-centric and family-centric. The same applies to other partners in the five-party alliance. Political parties have converted into family parties. Love for family members has destroyed the political image of the party leadership and greediness for money has made them corrupt.
Moreover, the Prime Minister and other ministers are found addressing the election assemblies by misusing the Nepal Army helicopters and government officials. This is a serious violation of the election code of conduct. When the leaders of a democratic party are violating the election code of conduct, we can assume what type of democracy we are practising!
To end such anomalies in politics, yet another battle is needed to take place. The political parties have already developed the grounds for the battle but when it will be started, we can predict now.
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