By Our Political Analyst
On Tuesday, April 9, we saw a human sea in Kathmandu. This was the crowd of those people who are against the present system—secularism, federalism, and republicanism.
The Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP), a political party which is against the present system, organized the agitation with the slogan, “Change the system; save the nation”.
The entire day, Kathmandu traffic was disturbed. The demonstrators broke the security zone announced by the government and attempted to enter Singhadurwar, the federal government’s secretariat. Around two dozen of agitators were wounded after the police used force—tear gas, water cannons, and cans—to control the situation.
On February 21, the party had submitted a 40-point demand to Prime Minister Pushpakamal Dahal. The demands were related to the burning issues faced by the commoners, the country’s economic policy, foreign policy, good governance, end of corruption and investigating the source of property earned by the political class since 1990, among others.
The major demand was to end the present political system with secularism, federalism, and republicanism by replacing it with a Hindu kingdom and a unilateral political system by removing the federal structures and giving total power to the local bodies.
When the government didn’t respond to the memorandum submitted by RPP, the party launched the demonstration and said that it would continue until the fulfilment of their demands.
Moreover, RPP chairman Rajendra Lingden, after the use of massive force to suppress the voice of the demonstrators on Tuesday, further added one demand, the resignation of Home Minister Rabi Lamichhane.
System failure:
It seems the main task of the Prime Minister is always to take a defensive stance to save the government. After the general elections in November 2022, Prime Minister Pushpakamal Dahal is changing the alliance partners and for the third time, Dahal has faced the vote of confidence motion. Along with a change in the central government, all the seven provinces have been jolted and the governments have been changed. This time, after a change in the alliance partners in the central government, new teams are forming the provincial governments in all seven provinces. The political leadership are unable to pay attention to the development works.
The House of Representatives is not able to function despite many bills being pending and waiting for final approval from parliament. Earlier, the UML was disrupting parliament meetings, now, the Nepali Congress.
One after another corruption files have been opened, however, the probe commissions are unable to identify those political leaders involved in corruption and manipulation, but the bureaucracy is blamed for being involved in the scams. Such attempts have demoralized the bureaucracy and it has virtually been paralyzed.
There is rampant corruption and daylight loot in the country. Top leaders are found involved in gold smuggling scandals, sending Nepalis to the USA covered with fake Bhutanese refugees; wide-body aircraft purchase scams; cooperatives fund misusing scams; security press purchase scams, grabbing the government land, and many other scams in which the top ranking leaders and senior bureaucrats are involved.
We cannot imagine about control of corruption under the present political system as it is an expensive system imposed by the foreign powers to destroy this beautiful nation.
The economy is facing a serious recession. The government is unable to collect the target revenue, thus, it is unable to spend the budget allotted for the capital sector. Due to this, all the construction-related sectors including those industries manufacturing construction materials have been affected. Now, the banks are facing excessive liquidity problems as there is no demand for loans. An odd recession cycle has been witnessed in the economic sector. The main reason is that the entire government revenue is being spent just to feed the political representatives and the functioning of the federal structures.
In conclusion, the present system has failed and immediate action is needed to change the present system and save the nation.
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