BABBLES
By Babbler
Swarnim Wagle, Sumana Shrestha and Bimala Rai Paudel, who identify themselves as foreigners’ spokesmen rather than Nepali leaders, should be recruited into the Nepal Army to make them aware of the significance of this organization. They should be trained and sent to the battlefield as the offensive force so that they know whether it is easy to consume foreign funds or fight on the battlefield to save the nation’s sovereignty!
The argument of those three leaders could also be a lesson to be learned for the Nepal Army officials. The Nepal Army, instead of protecting its supreme commander, in the name of obeying and respecting the constitution, remained silent when political change took place. Now, questions have been raised against the NA by the very political leaders who are doing dirty politics. The NA has become a silent spectator to all kinds of anomalies taking place in the country. Questions have been raised about the existence of the country as a sovereign and independent nation. What could be the NA’s role, this force should be needed to review.
The budget depended on loans
The government, in the previous fiscal year, earned 10 trillion, 31 billion 690 million rupees through customs duty, domestic revenue, grants and other means. Whereas the government spent 14 trillion, 29 billion, and 290 million rupees, that is, the government earnings were less than the expenditure by four trillion rupees.
The deficit amount should be managed through domestic and foreign debts. The debt amount of the government has tremendously increased in recent years. This trend is not going to decrease under the present political structure as we have been paying above 36 thousand “people’s representatives” as salary and allowances every month.
The nation doesn’t have enough funds for development projects and projects for infrastructural development. Therefore, we may not see new projects in the offing due to the lack of funds.
How long the nation would run through a deficit budget, shouldn’t the citizens question our corrupt and crooked leaders?
Bureaucracy and corruption
We remember the late Indra Kumar Pradhan, popularly known as IK Pradhan, who was the director of the Royal Nepal Airlines when Girija Prasad Koirala was the prime minister.
PM Koirala called one RNAC board meeting at the PM’s official residence in Baluatar. IK Pradhan opposed attending such a meeting at the PM’s residence. The meeting was called to reward a controversial businessman Dhamija with the GSA of Europe on behalf of the Airlines. Later, the deal became the Dhamija scam.
Pradhan not only denied direct political intervention in the RNAC but also tendered resignation from the prestigious post in the Airlines expressing dissatisfaction with PM Koirala’s direct intervention.
Pradhan also wrote a series of reports that were published in the People’s Review weekly.
Today, high-ranking government officials are under judiciary custody for being involved in different scams. The fact is that those political leaders, who gave illegal and unconstitutional orders to them are still in the leadership role and moving freely in the society without shame but the bureaucrats have become the victim. If those bureaucrats had denied to obey illegal orders, they would not have faced such a bad fortune today. Not only that, if all the bureaucrats deny doing illegal work, corruption cannot be flourished in the country.
QUOTES OF THE WEEK
Secret areas are needed to implement US strategic plans. For this reason, other countries’ presence should be avoided. The fact that agreements related to BRI during the time of KP Oli have been delayed and no response has been given to the Russian proposals. Such an act shows how Americans are active in the implementation of the MCC!
Bharat Dahal
The main bases of Nepal and Nepali people are the monarchy, Hindu religion, Nepali language, and Nepal Army. Three bases have already been destroyed. Now efforts are on to destroy the Army. If the people do not wake up, Nepal will not exist.
Peshal Niraula
It’s better to reduce the number of corrupt and crooked leaders before downsizing the Nepal Army!
Ambir Gurung
No force could shake the country if there was reconciliation between the democratic forces and the monarchy.
B.P. Koirala
The debate about reducing the number of the army is related to humiliating the morale of the force. Whoever does it from wherever, for whatever reasons, is a crime against the nation! At this moment when the state of chaos and anarchy has appeared everywhere, the only body that has not weakened is facing humiliation. All the patriots should be united against such a foreign conspiracy.
Dibakar Pant
7 provinces, its entire structure, 800 parliaments, 100 ministers, 7 speakers, 7 deputy speakers, 77 district coordinators, 6743 wards, 26972 members and buildings for all of these, travel and meeting allowances are unnecessary. Abolish such a system. Don’t talk about reducing the NA size. This is solely a foreign conspiracy.
Anand Adhikari
Swarnim Wagle’s remarks about the army may have been towards the economic side, but he has forgotten one thing! From the democratic countries America, Britain, Australia to India, they think 17 times when talking about their army! Why doesn’t anyone talk about unsustainable federalism?
Dipak Poudyal
Big nations don’t move away from their interests, no matter how idealistic they are on the issue of climate change. In Nepal, a poor country with 45% forests, they impose loans from donors to plant trees.
Surya Raj Acharya
The army is not the prime burden on the state’s budget, but I see that the provincial governments are the cause of the burden.
The reason for the sudden increase in “current expenditure” is the provincial governments become “recruitment center for political activists with government money” and the establishment of government employees and offices.
Prakash Ghimire
There is a force/group in Nepal that is always trying to end the existence of the country, whose main objective is to intensify the conflict, and the same force questions the legitimacy of the army from time to time. We need to be careful about this.
Bhimarjun Acharya
Even if the so-called political parties and their leaders introduce the law to sell the country and pass it in the parliament, we Nepalis cannot do anything about it, although, the very system is called the best democratic system in the world!
Dwarika Nath Dhungel
(Excerpted and translated by Sushma Shrestha from Social Media )
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