PM Deuba and MC chair Prachanda insulting the nation
By Our Reporter
The revelation of the joint letter written to the MCC Board chairman by Prime Minister and Nepali Congress president Sher Bahadur Deuba and CPN (Maoist Centre) chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda on September 21 2021 seeking additional time to ratify the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) pact has exposed not only incompetency of our leaders but also the double-standards of the Maoist boss Dahal.
Although it could be an issue of debate whether there was a need for writing a letter to the MCC chairman by an executive head of the country, the way Dahal reacted after the disclosure of the letter showed how he has been insulting the country and people for his personal benefit.
Shocked by the revelation of the secret letter written by Prime Minister Deuba and him, Dahal first expressed his dissatisfaction with PM Deuba for making the letter public, and later through a statement, he admitted he had written the letter.
However, his party had denied writing the letter which was circulated in many media outlets from Friday.
Although Dahal wrote in the letter that he would try his best to endorse the MCC from the parliament by convincing the Speaker if the additional time of five months was provided, Dahal had been publicly telling that MCC could not be endorsed. This has only proved his dishonesty to the people and the country, and his competency in exhibiting double standards on issues of national interest.
As the added five months’ time is expiring on February 28, the MCC is exerting pressure on the government to endorse the MCC by February 28. PM Deuba is under pressure to give a formal nod to MCC through parliament.
PM Deuba has been applying every measure to endorse the MCC from parliament, and he had sought the help of the CPN-UML chair KP Oli for that. Seven months after his departure from Baluwatar to Balkot, Oli reached Baluwatar for a meeting on MCC on Sunday.
Deuba held a joint meeting with Oli and Dahal in which Dahal floated the idea of endorsing MCC only after elections.
Everyone knows that Dahal’s party (Maoist) was in the government led by Sher Bahadur Deuba when the MCC was signed in 2017. He did not oppose it then. But later, he started using the MCC as a political tool against the former Prime Minister KP Oli when the differences between the two widened. First, he used Speaker Krishna Bahadur Mahara to prevent its passing, and now he is using Speaker Sapkota to block its entry into the House. But the letter exposed his intention to pass the MCC as well as his fake nationalist image.
In the meantime, it is against the diplomatic protocols for a sitting prime minister and former prime minister to deal with an agency under the US State Department. It should have been done through the Foreign Ministry.
This is a serious blunder and insult to the nation. Also, the leaders have tried to deceive the entire nation by writing a secret letter to MCC, already a controversial pact.
The weakness of our leaders is that the MCC was signed without doing adequate homework and now the nation has fallen into the MCC trap. Now, the situation is that neither they can accept nor reject the American grant project forwarded under the Indo-Pacific strategy. Nepal’s non-aligned foreign policy has been openly violated with the MCC dispute.
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