BABBLES
By Babbler
Perhaps, Indian so-called scholar and diehard anti-Nepal and anti-China academician Sukhdev Muni, or say, SD Muni, is not happy with his two pupils—Baburam Bhattarai and Pushpakamal Dahal—and the political leaders of the day in Nepal.
Muni, who was recently in Nepal, expressed his dissatisfaction during the meetings with the pro-Indian Nepali intellectuals. He shared the conclusion that India’s Nepal policy initiated through the 12-point Delhi agreement has failed.
He didn’t miss to explain that Delhi is facing difficulties in dealing with different political parties. When there was the institution of monarchy, it was enough to deal with one institution, but now it has become difficult for Delhi to deal with different political parties, Muni shared his views.
American Army on school premises
Recently, the American Army performed a musical program at the Shivapuri Higher Secondary School in Maharajgunj. Foreign armies in dress cannot enter the school premises. When some media reporters inquired about the incident, the Foreign Ministry and also the Nepal Army expressed their naivety, however, newly appointed Education Minister Sumana Shrestha is said to have attended the event.
According to reports, the school is run by different donor countries, and they are violating Nepal’s law. When our leaders in the government become foreign puppets, we can see such activities taking place without restriction.
The worrisome thing is that the American Army in a dress on a school premises is a demonstration to attract Chinese concern. The Americans are in Nepal under the Indo-Pacific Strategy, as MCC is a part of this strategy.
DPM Shrestha’s holiday trip to China
Our Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Narayankaji Shrestha, is off to China for a nine-day trip. His Chinese counterpart, Foreign Minister Wang Yi had extended an invitation to Shrestha to implement the long impending BRI projects. Nepal and China signed different agreements during the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Nepal and also during the visit of Prime Minister Pushpakamal Dahal to China.
Nepal was preparing to implement the agreements signed in the past. However, in the last hours, Prime Minister Pushpakamal Dahal asked DPM Shrestha not to sign any agreement but to hold a discussion on the modality of implementation of the bilateral projects under the BRI.
Of late, Nepal, under pressure from Delhi and Washington, is avoiding implementation of the BRI projects, saying that it cannot accept any projects on loan. This time also, the DPM is requesting the Chinese side for concessional interest rates for Nepal. Meanwhile, Western countries are threatening Nepal saying that it may face a debt trap if it accepts the Chinese project. In fact, the Chinese debt is very low compared to the debt taken by Nepal from Western countries.
Be that as it may, our DPM is on a nine-day visit to China without any business. Moreover, he is spending three days in Kailash Mansarovar.
Indian hegemony
Nepal needs to import electricity from India during the dry season. By the end of March, the agreement should be renewed, yet, India has not renewed the power purchase agreement.
To make a failure of the commercial operation of the two newly built international airports in Pokhara and Bhairahawa, constructed through the Chinese support and involvement of the Chinese construction companies, India has denied giving new air routes via Dhangadi and Bhairahawa and also denied permitting operation of the Instrumental Landing system installed at the Bhairahawa International Airport. The Himalayan Airlines, a joint venture of Nepal and China, didn’t get permission to fly in the Indian destinations. India has sent the message that it would not import electricity produced from projects constructed by Chinese construction companies. These are the hegemony demonstrated by India.
QUOTES OF THE WEEK
If the situation the country is experiencing now is the situation envisioned by the movement of 2006, then the corrupt system that will turn the country into a very poor country in South Asia is a republic, and there is no alternative to change the “condition and system”.
Mohan Kumar Shrestha
To become a socialist leader, one must be able to wash the dishes of his workers and people. A person who eats five-star hotel food with his family, whose children carry bags worth five lakhs rupees, whose grandchildren study in the most expensive private school in the country, and who does not do any work, cannot be a socialist leader.
CK Raut
Are 500,000 US dollars enough to spread atheism in Nepal? That would be a one-time grant; Such money must have been withdrawn many times. And, there are other gasses like ‘SOCH Nepal’.
The cover reads Humanists International. Check out the website.
Dhruba H. Adhikary
What did the Madhes get after the Madhes movement?
Khusbu Oli
Highways, industries, planned cities, hospitals, schools, and colleges were built in Tarai during the reign of the king. Development was more concentrated in the Tarai than in the hilly and mountainous regions. After the Madhes movement and federalism, the Tarai became the epicentre of corruption.
Roshan Shiwakoti
Why should it surprise that China is also strategically interested in Nepal?
In 1951 itself, India established 17 military check posts in Nepal, which were removed with great difficulty in 1970, only to be followed by blockade.
No Chinese military in Nepal.
Ratna Sansar Shrestha
The meaningful letter of historical significance sent to the Nepali Congress, Mahasamiti meeting on 9th Ashwin 2064 by Krishna Prasad Bhattarai shows how the politics of the country are trapped in today’s pathetic and crisis situation!
Lokesh Dhakal
Another party workers recruitment agency in Nepal is the National Planning Commission. No one listens to what this organization says, nor does the nominees do anything. What is the role of the Planning Commission in a country where the cabinet changes five times a year? It would be better if the money spent on such unnecessary institutions was increased by increasing the salaries of teachers in government educational institutions and attracting good people to the teaching profession.
Rudra Pandey
All our activities must be based on the spirit of Nepal nation and Nepali nationalism because now we need national existence rather than ethnic existence.
Jagman Gurung
Zero corruption? If so, how will the leaders and activists of the parties, the government and the country survive? Do not keep the country? Can a person with full-blood alcohol live without alcohol?
Keshav P. Bhattarai
Excerpted and translated by Sushma Shrestha.
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