On/Off the Record
By P.R. Pradhan
Very soon, maybe by Thursday evening or Friday, the nation is going to get a new President. Suvash Nembang from UML and Ramchandra Paudel from NC are in the race. As Paudel is backed by the new nine-party alliance, he is likely the winning candidate. Prime Minister Pushpakamal Dahal said that Paudel is a consensus candidate. He also informed that the present nine-party alliance has been constituted from among the political parties accepting the 12-point Delhi agreement. Knowingly or unknowingly, Dahal has confirmed that this is a pro-Indian alliance that abided by the 12-point Delhi agreement. We believe, after the new president will assume office, his first job will be for putting a seal on the citizenship amendment bill. PM Dahal’s duty will be for obeying Delhi and Washington’s orders irritating China and the new President will have the full support while doing so.
Foreign intelligence was active from day one of the formation of the seven-party alliance led by UML, which had elected Pushpakamal Dahal to the PM’s post. Finally, in 64 days, the seven-party alliance was dissolved and a nine-party new alliance has been developed. To ensure, Indian interests, Indian foreign secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra landed in Kathmandu. Within a very short period, he had the opportunity to meet with 14 senior political leaders and former prime ministers. He met Prime Minister Pushpakamal Dahal twice. After paying a courtesy call in the afternoon, again, Kwatra reached Baluatar, PM’s official residence, in the evening for a private meeting. Youraj Ghimire, a senior journalist, has claimed that a quiet dinner was hosted by the Indian Embassy here in honour of visiting foreign secretary. Prime Minister Pushpakamal Dahal and former PM Sher Bahadur Deuba were also present there and Kwatra spent a long time meeting with both the Nepali dignitaries together. Indeed, the visit of the Indian foreign secretary is considered a high-profile visit as he was able to meet all the high-ranking dignitaries in a very short stay in Kathmandu. Our foreign secretary or chief secretary will never get such an opportunity in Delhi. The diplomatic tendency in Nepal confirms the slavery mentality of our political leaders who were keen to meet a foreign secretary of India even by neglecting the diplomatic protocol. Our prime minister’s two meetings with the Indian foreign secretary confirm that he is loyal to Delhi more than his own voters and the Nepali citizens. A strong Indian influence in Nepali politics has been witnessed in the present nine-party alliance which has ensured the victory of Ramchandra Paudel. The Dahal-Paudel partnership is for serving Indian as well as Western interests. The first job of the Dahal-Paudel partnership will be for sealing the citizenship amendment bill and then smooth the implementation of MCC and endorsement of the SPP. Americans have used India for the construction of a university in the restricted zone in Mustang. Mustang is a sensitive zone as earlier the Tibetan Khampa armed force had launched a revolt in Tibet. India has proposed for construction of a university in the restricted zone in Mustang just to irritate China. We can assume, Dahal is under a strong grip of Delhi. Perhaps, Dehli has some evidence that Dahal can be politically finished if disclosed this evidence by the Indians. This could be the reason that Dahal has become Delhi’s obedient boy.
Talking about PM Dahal, news reports state that the government has suspended the decision of the Agriculture Ministry for conducting pesticide tests on vegetables imported from India. The PM has felt that India will become furious if conducted such a test on vegetables imported from there. The reason is that the vegetables imported from India are highly poisonous which cannot be prescribed for consumption due to the excessive use of pesticides. PM Dahal is seriously concerned about Indian interests, in the meantime, he is less bothered about the health of the Nepali citizens consuming poisonous vegetables.
Nepal is an agricultural country and it doesn’t need to import vegetables and food grains from India if the Nepal government will help and encourage local farmers and give good prices for the goods produced by them. Nepali farmers should not have launched an agitation against the government if it had become responsible towards the plight of the farmers. Perhaps, our leaders are not ready for making Indians furious!
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