By Rabi Raj Thapa
Since the individual political fusion of two leaders of Nepal on 1st July at midnight, Nepal’s politics has stopped like the vehicles on the Nepalese highway. By then a lot of things have happened in the world. Emmanuel Macron’s disastrous election gambit has resulted in power-sharing agreements in the National Assembly split into three bitterly divided blocs as ever before. Now people named his new government – “A RAINBOW” Government. In the name of political stability, President Macron must have rejected Prime Minister Gabriel Attal’s resignation just to control further damage.
In Nepal, just a fusion between two leaders in their midnight deal has embroiled Nepal’s republican political process on the individual issue of resignation from the prime minister in office and other aspirants in line. It speaks a lot about the health of the People’s Republic of Nepal in the present economic, socio socio-political context.
In the United Kingdom, it is the first time in 14 years that Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party would not be in power and still the new government started to function normally. Why is there a traffic jam in the Nepali parliament on a trivial issue of – Resign or Not-to Resign by the ruling Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal.
Going back to the Republic of India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has already resumed his smooth ride over the government power and started his global diplomatic venture starting from Russia where he hoped he would raise the issue of rescuing Indian youth from the Russia-Ukraine battlefront. But Nepali people will get nothing like that as long as the founding fathers of the Republic like Dahal, Deuba or Oli keep fighting among themselves to crown themselves as prime minister by hook or by crook.
In the midst of political wrangling, Nepali people are dying in Ukraine and other countries like sacrificial animals. Recently, four Nepalese workers were murdered in cold blood by slitting throats in Meghalaya, India. It has been reported that 39 Nepalese youth have already lost their lives in Ukraine and more than 200 families are demanding to do something to save the lives of their relatives.
For all Nepalis today, politicians have become addicted to political power and position like “Ganzadis”- drug and substance dependents. Only the difference is drug addict sub-culture harm them while today’s political culture is damaging the whole nation.
At present, all Nepali politicians and people are going through extreme pressure from the people within and from external forces. All unhealthy unethical fusions have now created too much chaos, confusion and uncertainty in Nepalese society.
Since the promulgation of Federal Republic Constitution, Article 76 has overshadowed all other Articles directly or indirectly related to the common people. Article 76 is more has taken all the energy and time of so called major political parties who have been monopolizing the position of the prime minister repeatedly. Now there needs to be a ceiling of two times Presidents like that in America.
Now, it is almost clear to all Nepali that the provincial governments have become almost redundant and become more of a liability than an asset to the government, people and constitution itself.
Now, the time has come for the people and the leaders either to learn the lessons in time or the people will take care of the leaders. Many people still know the power of “Janata Janardan” which means the supremacy of the people. Now it is time for Nepalese: whosoever: supremos or otherwise, to come down to the earth and save Nepal from this Amoeba Republic.
Going through the past, there is an example of the Executive King giving back to people their mandate by declaring “Janata ko Naso – Janata Lai” (people’s mortgaged property back to people). Now, it is time for political cartels to return back “Janato ko Sancho Jnatalai” (i.e people’s key to their destiny back to people).
The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect People’s Review’s editorial stance.
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