BABBLES
By Babbler
Our Prime Minister went to New Delhi for one night to attend the oath ceremony of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Foreign Ministry said that it was a formal visit as PM Dahal was invited by the Indian government.
PM Dahal was seen off and received at the Tribhuvan International Airport according to the protocol of a formal visit. The Nepal Army performed a guard of honour on the PM and the House Speaker, NA chairman, DPMs, Ministers and constitutional heades were present at the TIA during the PM’s departure and arrival.
We didn’t see any formal programs performed by the Indian side during the PM’s arrival and departure to and from the New Delhi International Airport. India took it as an informal visit as a special secretary received our PM.
The Nepal government should have consulted with the Indian counterpart about the visit protocol and arranged the departure and arrival of the PM accordingly. Perhaps, one Deputy Prime Minister was enough to see off and receive the PM. Perhaps, there was no need for performing a guard of honor. Time is changing and we need to adopt the change.
Eventually, we saw an odd scene during the bilateral meeting between PM Dahal and Indian PM Narendra Modi. PM Dahal was sitting along with his “lovely” daughter congestedly on one chair, whereas, his Indian counterpart was sitting on a single chair. There was another chair aside from Ganaga Dahal but why she didn’t sit on the single chair rather than stick with her father?
In such diplomatic meetings, protocol is important. To maintain diplomatic protocol, a protocol chief will be included in such visits. Besides, our Foreign Secretary was also in the team and the Foreign Ministry officials had to inform the PM and his daughter about the protocol.
FNJ politics
Our professional journalists struggled hard to keep the Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) a professional organization, not a sister organization of the political parties. Our efforts failed and FNJ became the sister organization of the political parties. In the process of capturing the organization, even the journalists started a coalition practice and sometimes those UML and Maoist Center affiliated journalists joined hands and sometimes NC and Maoist or NC and UML joined hands and captured the professional organization.
Due to partisan politics and the membership dispute, the FNJ has been locked up by another group. The election day for the new office bearers was set for Saturday, June 8. Unfortunately, the election was cancelled for an uncertain period. This is the first time that the so-called umbrella organization of all the journalists has failed to elect its new office bearers.
Moreover, to keep control over the FNJ, the politically affiliated journalists amended the statute of the FNJ by introducing a direct voting system, from which, genuine journalists have been sidelined and those party workers have occupied the professional organization.
Political parties staging drama in province assemblies
Along with a change in the federal government, the governments in all seven provinces are being changed. We could see verities of hanky-panky in the process of forming a new government. All dirty games could be seen in all the provinces. All the provinces, by violating the norms and ethics, have formed above eight-member cabinets. After all, the present political system is a factory producing ministers, chief ministers and provincial ministers. After all, political workers enjoy the game and looting the nation.
QUOTES OF THE WEEK
If King Prithvi Narayan Shah and King Mahendra were absent, the country called Nepal would not have existed today.
Bhimarjun Acharya
For the Nepali Congress, democracy is both the goal and the means, but for the Communists, democracy is only a strategy. This is where the Congress has failed.
Keshav P. Bhattarai
Minister Rekha Sharma said that the country is running on foreign debt, which is true. How are our leaders thinking about running the nation by standing on our own feet?
Laxman Ghimire
Western leaders who aimed to dethrone Putin through the Ukraine conflict found themselves dethroned by their own voters. A paradox!
Surya Raj Acharya
It seems that Ganga may inundate Prachand. Surely, those who fought the “people’s war” might be watching the present pictures of Prachanda and his affection and love for the family!
Nirmala Dhakal
ILS was installed at a cost of about 1 billion rupees at the Gautam Buddha International Airport. Currently, due to India’s denial, ILS is not being used.
Can aircraft operate through satellite-based technology in absence of the Indian permission?
It is the culmination of India’s wickedness.
Ratna Sansar Shrestha
The rationale of the provincial structure has ended. The province has become an arena of instability and corruption. It has become a burden for the nation. When the provincial structure is about to collapse due to its own distortions and failures, instead of allowing it to collapse, it is surprising that the anti-federalist party is standing in its defence and is ready to step on its shoulders.
Kamal Thapa
Excerpted and translated by Sushma Shrestha.
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