Category: Babbles

BABBLES

By Babbler

The government announced a sudden holiday paying tribute to ex-Speaker the late Damannath Dhungana, at around 11 am on Monday. All the government service holders had already reached their offices and later returned home after they received the government notice.

There are many ways to pay tribute to the departed souls. However, in Nepal, announcing a public holiday is considered the greatest tribute to those who die.

Maybe, Nepal is listed in the last row among the countries in international records, yet, it is the No 1 country enjoying public holidays. The number of holidays has increased enormously after the country was declared a federal secular republic. Perhaps, this is an indication that Nepal under the present political system cannot become prosperous.

Paying tax for why?

On every footstep, we are compelled to pay tax. Taxation in Nepal after the introduction of the federal structures has become very high. Due to the heavy taxation, the country is witnessing a unique recession.

In other countries, people pay taxes and the government provides different facilities to the citizens. However, in Nepal, we pay taxes just to manage salaries and allowances for the people’s representatives. Moreover, the people’s representatives and bureaucrats make additional money through corruption. In such a way, the taxpayer’s money is being misused. The political leaders becoming rich overnight, whereas, the general public is becoming poor day by day.

Why we are paying tax if it is misused, is a burning question raised by some experts, nevertheless, many of them have remained silent as they are associated with different political parties. This Babbler believes the time has come to protest against heavy taxation. Do you also agree?

K.P. Oli and Smart Axiata

Some documents of the Smart Axiata in Cambodia have become viral on social networks. It is reported that Oli has invested 32.5 billion Nepali rupees in this company. Durga Prasain has challenged that Oli has illegally invested such a big amount in a company in Cambodia.

Personally, Oli is a strong critic of corruption but from where he got such a big amount to invest in a foreign company, it is a serious question. To remain silent on such a serious issue is not ethical for a sitting Prime Minister of the country. Oli must clarify against such blame.

Prasain has been arrested on the charge of producing fake document against the sitting Prime Minister. Details about the investigation should be made public by the Central Bureau of Investigation under the Nepal Police.

QUOTES OF THE WEEK

King Mahendra encouraged the justice who gave verdict against his father-in-law saying that to perform justice without fear by inviting the judge to the palace and rewarding him. Now, those republicans impeached Chief Justice Sushila Karki when they felt uncomfortable in doing illegal work. The republicans were unable to justify the impeachment against her but didn’t say sorry!

Rabindra Mishra

Chinese Card? That is also an Indian card “B”. All cards being played in Nepal are made in India. Instead of blaming others for playing other countries’ cards, we suggest playing the Indian card directly to curb the development and progress of the country!

Keshav P Bhattarai

The announcement of a public holiday is not a true honor to the departed soul. Paying honor is also an art but those politicos are unaware of it.

Sharad Raj Pathak

When I was in the government service, there was one dedicated senior officer. He called me to his chamber for a cup of coffee, however, I refused to go to his chamber saying that the DG had called me. He said to forget the DG’s works explaining that they all are to destroy the nation. It would be better for the nation if they didn’t work. This also relates to Monday’s public holiday!

Surya Raj Acharya

A heartfelt tribute to the departed soul! He took foreign funds and ran an office at Bhojangriha in Dillibazar, and under the instruction of the INGO, he was used to adopting federalism in the constitution, which invited a big financial crisis and decentralization of corruption in the country.

Ratna Sansar Shrestha

This sudden public holiday was not necessary. The NC and UML could give him (the late Damannath Dhungana) appropriate state responsibility when he was alive. It would have been better if his advice were listened to by the leaders.

Debvendra Raj Panday

One Nepali youth is crying and explaining his troubles. This is just an example. Thousands of youths are going abroad and villages have become vacant. Borders are encroached. In the absence of the King for 18 to 20 years, the nation has reached this worst situation, yet, we are saying that the present system is okay!

Nabin

Public holidays should not have been made such cheap. Unfortunately, it is not surprising that a guard of honor from the Nepal Army was given during the death of Prachanda’s wife!

Dipak Gyawali

We have the magic number of 32 and we are going to form the next government again.

Pushpakamal Dahal

Today again, I recall those patriotic, clean and capable leaders, former prime ministers Marichman Singh Shrestha, Kirtinidhi Bista and Dr Tulsi Giri. The then arrogant and prejudized governments didn’t pay state honor during their demise, although, they are always alive in the mindset of patriotic Nepalis.

Kamal Thapa

Excerpted and translated by Sushma Shrestha

BABBLES

By Babbler

Against the rules and regulations of the country, the cabinet meeting held on November 10 has decided to give an order for resuming electricity supply to the industries denying paying electricity bills used through an agreement under the dedicated and trunk lines.

Earlier, Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli had given oral order to Kulman Ghising, managing director of the Nepal Electricity Authority. When he asked for a written letter, from the government, the Minister for Energy and Water Resources, Deepak Khadka, denied giving a written letter. Now, the proposal has been endorsed by the cabinet meeting to escape any possible investigation on abuse of authority in future.

The NEA source says that the nation is going to lose seven billion rupees worth of revenue from the government’s decision.

Unfortunately, the general public is compelled to pay 25% of interest if delayed paying the electricity bill and after a certain time, the people face electricity cutoff but the industrialists get special favor from the “socialist” government!

Maybe, this is a deal done between the industrialists and the political parties in the government under the table!

Gentleman agreement for Balkrishna Khand?

Former home minister Balkrishna Khand was released on bail from an order of the High Court. The case is on but NC President Sher Bahadur Deuba has used his power to make weak the case against Khand. Khand was arrested on the charge of being involved in sending Nepali nationals covered under the Bhutanese refugees to the USA. However, it is said that a gentleman agreement has been made among the political leaders to close their eyes on such mal-governance and corruption cases in which influential leaders are involved.

It is said that if all files related to corruption and abuse of authority are opened, 90% of leaders will face corruption charges.

PKD’s American model

Nowadays, Maoist Center Chairman Pushpakamal is describing the beauty of the American system. The present model of the political system written by foreigners has failed in Nepal. Dahal himself believes, the political system has failed and he is going to carry the new agenda of a directly elected president prohibiting MPs from becoming ministers. Dahal has argued that such a modality would end corruption in the country. Maybe, Dahal is unaware that the American Presidential candidate is selected from a certain race of people and supported by the business tycoons. Others get no entry. Even the female leadership has been discarded in the American politics. Moreover, Dahal seems unaware of how much funds were collected by the presidential candidates! Furthermore, due to the presidential election, America has been divided into two parts. It may cause a serious situation in the USA.

In a Nepal-like country, a directly elected president could be more harmful as foreign powers invest in them and once a foreign candidate is elected, the person will serve the foreign powers rather than the Nepalis. Accordingly, the elected president can become an autocrat and kill democracy forever, mind it.

QUOTES OF THE WEEK

Is this practised in Nepal or in other countries also? Manufacturing companies can produce playing cards; they can be openly sold in shops; people can openly buy playing cards but they are prohibited from playing cards.

Shankar Lamichhane

Ayurveda is not a treatment. It is a method of preventing disease. It cannot be compared with allopathy which is used for treatment after suffering from a disease.

Ayurveda Dr Laxaman Paudel

Nepal receives the highest quantity of drugs from India due to the open border.

Sports Minister Chaudhary

In the complex geopolitics of the world and the increasingly sensitive internal situation of Nepal, there is no alternative but to develop a new consensus to stop the crisis if future generations are to stay in the country safely and prospectively.

Rabindra Mishra

A brave lawyer is yet to be born who would file a murder case against those crusher owners who exploited river products causing devastating floods in the Rosy and Nakhu rivers and damaging human settlements!

Binod Neupane

Sometimes I think the 78-year-old king continues to create an atmosphere in favor of the royal institutions across the country and those who call themselves royalists are spoiling that atmosphere due to their selfishness and arrogance. Otherwise, when the whole country is in favor of the Royal institutions, why can’t we give it a shape? The time has come for the pro-monarchy parties and groups to be united.

Rabindra Mishra

The Nepali Congress is not in a position to take back its support to the government because half of the NC MPs will go to jail as soon as they leave the government.

Sekhar Koirala

Corrupt leaders are not only guilty of ruining this country, but those people who voted for them are equally guilty.

Rajendra Lingden

Locals in Chitwan wanted to establish King Mahendra’s statue in Chitwan by collecting donations. The local body demolished the structure site, which is a big insult to the history of the country.

Leaders are constructing the statue of their family members from the government budget, unfortunately, they cannot tolerate an honor to King Mahendra, who established the base of modern Nepal and contributed a lot to the development of the country!

Khusbu Oli

Excerpted and translated by Sushma Shrestha.

BABBLES

By Babbler

Acting Prime Minister?

A prime minister is an elected person who should take the oath of office and secrecy from the head of the nation. The prime minister should be elected from the House of Representatives.

If the prime minister is absent, the senior minister gets permission from the head of the nation to look after the day-to-day affairs. He is not an acting prime minister but a minister looking after the PM’s portfolio for the time being.

Accordingly, in Nepal, journalists are found using the word acting ambassador. In fact, an ambassador assumes office as the representative of his country only after presenting a letter of credence. Sometimes, a charge d’affaires will also look after the ambassador’s works but he is not decorated with the title “acting ambassador” but he is called the charge d’affaires a.i.

Will our journalists mind these terms?

Don’t encroach rivers

We must take the lesson from the recent devastating floods and landslides nationwide. The Kathmanduites should take the lesson that they should not encroach rivers. Rivers find their ways themselves. When ways are blocked, they become wild. The same happened on Saturday in the Valley.

Our development-friendly political leaders are constructing roads to their villages. It is okay but there should be a scientific alignment conducted by experienced engineers on the possible impact including the possibility of landslides. The practice of operating bulldozers randomly in the name of development should be stopped. Otherwise, we will suffer a lot in the days to come. The message is stop challenging nature.

Squatters at the river bank

Squatters are created by the political system. Different political parties have used squatters as their vote bank, therefore, they are allowed to occupy land around the river banks. In fact, all of them are not real squatters. They have property elsewhere and their kids are doing well in foreign countries. Still, they are occupying the public land just to get facilities and free land from the government. If the government doesn’t take effective measures to end the squatters, it will be a permanent problem for the nation.

Always, the political parties are thinking about distributing the government land to those so-called squatters. How long does the government distribute the land free of cost?

Believe in nature, those so-called squatters occupying public land at the river banks have been punished as their unauthorized settlements are swept away by floods.

QUOTES OF THE WEEK

Nepal was the Chair of the Least Developed Countries in the world 43 years ago, and even after 43 years, many countries have upgraded to the level of Developing Countries during this period. Still, we feel glory from becoming the Chair of the same LDCs!

Keshav P. Bhattarai

In a country where there is no industry, the industry should be opened and provide employment, erecting a view tower will not provide employment. It’s robbery.

Narendra Bikram Chand

Should cooperative frauds be punished or rewarded?

Barakhari News

(Reacting on the government nomination to an undergraduate person to the post of the ambassador) It is the responsibility of the Chief Secretary not to allow the political leadership to make mistakes due to the personal background of the proposed person. In the decision, including the recommendation of the ambassador’s appointment, it has been seen that the Secretariat led by the Chief Secretary has not fulfilled its duty.

Govinda Adhikari

Prakash Singh’s protection of his sister in the Bal Mandir land scam is a mockery of Ganeshman Singh’s political sacrifice and honesty. Due to such cunningness of throwing stones in the eyes of the people by misusing the office, serious questions are being raised not only on Congress but also on this government.

Om Kumar Thapa

Why did the two big parties of opposite poles form the government together, that is, to protect the corrupt? Stability does not mean that people are corrupt. In how much time will the Bal Mandir probe report be implemented? When is it going to be public?

Sumana

Taking care of orphaned children, not completing the minimum legal process at the cost of a lot of valuable land, raising 12 lakhs a month in Jaypee School and giving only 1 lakh to the school, and cooperative fraud are different things, do not compare, why did you have to defend, to weaken the case, it would have been difficult to read the task force!

Roshan Shiwakoti

This year, there is no Dasain for the senior citizens. There is no old-age allowance.

Madhav Acharya

The proposed ambassador to Sri Lanka, Ramkrishna Bhattarai, has withdrawn his name after failing to provide the official certificate of graduation. This is a sample of how much access a person without even the minimum qualifications has to the government and the party. If the hearing committee had not asked for the certificate, the undergraduate candidate could have become an ambassador.

Madhav Dhungel

Now that the country has not been able to meet the expenses for running the seven provinces. If 14-15 provinces are introduced as demanded by some political leaders on the basis of ethnicity, there will be many other ethnic provinces in the country of 125 ethnicities. The obligation to meet such ever-increasing demands will lead to further fragmentation of the country.

Badri Khanal 

Kapil Shrestha, who was suspended after one year from the National Human Rights Commission for alleged sexual misconduct, has been nominated as the ambassador. Dhanprasad Pandit, who did not pay the 15,000 fine imposed by the court, has also been approved as an ambassador. What message should we get from such approvals?

Ukaalo

After complaining about the lack of fuel facilities, 75 liters of petrol were added to the Speaker of Koshi Province, 50 liters were also added for the Deputy Speaker. People can drink fuel and can eat electricity instead of food and juice!

Nirmal Prasai

Nepal is the only country where intellectuals stand against wisdom.

Rajesh Ahiraj

What kind of democratic party is the Congress? The party demands the arrest of the other party’s leaders on alleged cooperative fraud but remains silent on their leader Dhanraj Gurung’s involvement in the cooperative fraud!

Kirtika Tharu

The country was engaged in conflict for 10 years. Within five years, there was no need to take up arms against it. Those 10 years wasted precious time of the country.

Parshuram Kaphle

Excerpted and translated by Sushma Shrestha.

By Babbler

Journalists are considered to be the watchdog of all kinds of wrong deeds. Journalists are thus qualified as the fifth column as they provide critical suggestions to the government. The government can correct its mistakes from an independent journalist’s report.

Unfortunately, in the Nepali democracy, such a definition doesn’t work. There is a scarcity of independent journalists as virtually all journalists are affiliated with different political parties. It is interesting to note that the Federation of Nepalese Journalists was unable to hold its periodical election this time. Time and again, the elections have been postponed and one after another captains of the Federation are quitting the post as they failed to hold elections.

The reason is that the major political parties want to capture the Federation. It is blamed that journalists belonging to major political parties, to capture the Federation, have given membership to those political workers who are not journalists by profession. As the issue of journalists’ membership has not been resolved, the elections of the umbrella organization of journalists have been affected.

Pandora’s Box

The two supreme leaders in the government, Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli and Nepali Congress president Sher Bahadur Deuba are willing to amend the constitution. They are influenced by the idea of a two-party system by sidelining small political parties. They plan to increase the threshold from the present 3 percent of the total votes to 10 percent. If this happens, the NC and UML may ensure the ten percent threshold but it may be difficult for the Maoist Center.

Be that as it may, it would be an attempt to open the Pandora’s box. If Pandora’s box is opened, perhaps, a new people’s movement would start.

To note, amendment of the constitution is not enough to correct the present political system. There is a need for an overhaul of the constitution. Otherwise, many Durga Prasain will appear in days to come and it would be difficult for the leaders to stay in Nepal. Their destination will be India like Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh.

Directly elected President?

The Maoist Center is again lauding the agenda of a directly elected president to end corruption and political instability. Maoist supremo Pushpakamal Dahal has started to laude this agenda again.

The idea sounds very attractive but in a Nepal-like country, where the voters are not educated and are ready to vote just for one plate of rice with meat, can we choose the right person for the post?

Obviously, foreign powers will start to gamble on the presidential post to elect their puppet in the post of chief executive. In such a situation, we may get a foreign agent rather than a Nepal-loving president.

Heating the streets

It seems the streets are going to be heated day by day. We cannot say, whether all those in the streets are right but we know, the street is going to be heated.

Yesteryears, those India-sponsored political activists were heating the streets but now, we don’t see any Indian sponsorship in such street agitation. Surely, frustrated youths from the present foreign-sponsored political system are trying to heat the streets.

QUOTES OF THE WEEK

Disagreement with Durgaji is in its place. In the crowd of murderers, corrupts, co-operative cheaters, smugglers, human sellers, sending to America on government letter pad, taking crores and keeping them proportionally, taking 3 crores to make a minister, giving land to son, grasping Giribandhu’s land, being dragged into the wide body, Prasain is okay.

Purushottam Dhungel

Quality hospitals and colleges can be built in every district by abolishing the provincial government. The provincial government created to manage the leaders must be abolished.

Dhawal Shumsher Rana

If the provincial governments are abolished, the chief minister, ministers, Province council members, etc. will starve! That is why the Congress, UML, Maoist and Madhesi parties do not agree to cancel provincial governments.

TA Jung

(Reacting on poor presence at the concert organized on the occasion of the constitution day) If King Gyanendra was present there how was it be? By mobilizing 5,000 police, and mobilizing 5,000 activists/republicans, even when large parties such as the Congress and the UML were called to attend, it was poor. If the lone king Gyanendra was to be felicitated at the same place, how many people would spontaneously be present there? You’ll guess!

Rabindra Mishra

When Oli reached the concert venue at the end of the concert, he gave a short speech to the youths who were swaying in the song. During the speech, the young people raised slogans in favor of  Balen in front of Oli. Then the police were irritated. Olly returned from the venue after taking a selfie?

Ch Ghimire

As soon as Modi arrived in the USA, Biden welcomed him in his home. Gossip is not enough to achieve ‘real’ equality and respect in the Vaishya era. Talks are not enough. This is the same Modi, who was denied a visa by America. Today, whether it’s Biden or his nemesis Putin or even his nemesis Zelensky – everyone is eager to roll out the red carpet to Modi.

Vijay Kumar Panday

In a country where the minimum hourly wage is less than 70 rupees, the parking charge for a bike is 40 rupees per hour. This is the so-called people’s progressive government!

Sushil Thapa

Excerpted and translated by Sushma Shrestha.

BABBLES

By Babbler

When the Maoist Center decided to obstruct the House meeting, the government ended the House session. We have a 275-member Federal House of Representatives plus a 59-member National Assembly. There are many impending works including important bills to be formulated and approved by the House of Representatives. The House blames the government for not giving the job to Parliament. The government always tries to escape the House. The job of the MPs is to follow the party’s direction and the duty of the MPs in opposition parties has become to obstruct the House meetings. The members have no right to go against the party’s decision. Considering the activities of the government and also the House of Representatives, we don’t need such a big parliament by spending salaries, allowances and many other facilities from the government treasury.

Furthermore, the province councils in the seven provinces have become the factory for producing ministers. The provinces and district coordination committees have become parasites of the present federalism.

Those communists believe that a parliament is a shop selling dog meat displaying a goat’s head. This comes true in the Nepali circumstance.

Why our scholars, intellectuals and academicians have remained silent on the misuse of the state treasury, is astonishing.

Thinking about a better Nepal

We cannot think of a better Nepal from the present-day leaders. The first priority they have is to earn money for themselves and the second priority is to give political assignment to their sycophants and party workers. They never give priority to the common people.

In India, a popular saying was that West Bengal would never become prosperous under communist rule. The communist mantra was that the poor people were the voters of the communist party. If those poor people become rich, they will not vote for the communist party. Therefore, always keeping poor to the poor people was the communist mantra in West Bengal, India.

In our constitution, almost on every page, “socialism” is mentioned. But in practice, we don’t find socialism anywhere.  We must throw away this political system for a better Nepal.

An odd reality

The share market is continuously declining. Commercial banks are continuously reducing bank interest rates, yet, they are holding excessive deposits. When there is no demand for loans, banks are compelled to keep deposits without investment. The Nepal Rastra Bank is continuously pulling deposits from commercial banks to maintain a balance on the money supply in the market. Even though, the finance minister is claiming that the economy of the country is taking a proper course and improving! What a surprise!

“People’s Library”

This Babbler saw a video clipping of Indira Dali, who talked about the library inside the Prime Minister’s official residence. The library is named, “People’s Library”.

Dali expressed her surprise that who are the people to get the opportunity to use the library inside the PM’s residence? The PM’s secretariat has requested to send books to the library there.

Dali has remarked that people are demanding to establish a library at Jamal, a hub in the city. If a library were established in Jamal, a large number of people would benefit.

She objected to the name of the library, “People” with a big surprise.

QUOTES OF THE WEEK

My Prime Minister protects the person who tortures and exploits children.

Balen Shah

(Reacting on the birthday celebration by UML leader Pradeep Gyawali): Those who became leaders by protesting the king’s birthday celebration, celebrate their birthday lavishly. After all, everyone just wants to be a king.

Mahesh Mal

Maoist leader Shakti Basnet, Rastriya Swatantra Party’s vice chairman Dol Prasad Aryal and general secretary Kavindra Burlakoti have misused the deposits of the Hamro Krishi Sahakari (Cooperatives).

Why didn’t the committee take the statements of those thugs?

Sunil Paudel

There was the king and there was the pride, honor and respect for Nepal and Nepalese at the international level. I used to feel proud of being a Nepali. The current republican and tyrannical masters destroyed everything.

Chakra Prasad

An urban revolt is obvious if denied a peaceful transition through a greater roundtable for a new understanding. To put pressure on that, let’s observe the so-called Constitution Day as a ‘Black Day’ and switch off the lights for 1 minute at 8 pm that evening on September 19.

Rabindra Mishra

If all the pro-monarchists and Hindus stand together, the Hindu kingdom can be restored within a few months.

Kamal Thapa

Above us is the country, there is nothing above the country. 

Rajendra Lingden

The diplomatic community is confused about whose words to believe in Nepal’s foreign affairs. Another serious weakness is the lack of stability in the pattern of speech, behavior and stance of Nepal in world affairs.

Rameshnath Pandey

I have never seen (before) (like today) people jumping so wildly in favor of monarchy. K.P. Sharma Oli

(Replying to PM Oli’s remarks that efforts are on to end republicanism in the country): Your (KP Sharma Oli, Sher Bahadur Deuba, Pushpakamal Dahal, and Rabi Lamichhane) activities have created suspicion among the people on the existence of the country.

Laxman Ghimire

Excerpted and translated by Sushma Shrestha.

BABBLES

By Babbler

In the past, the Darkhane event was taking place on the eve of the Teej fasting but presently, it starts from one month earlier. The celebration is taking place at banquets. We can see how the families are making the festival expensive. Moreover, the ward committees have started to organize the Darkhane festival from the budget they receive. It is a misuse of government funds. If such misuse is controlled, the nation could save some funds which could be used in development projects. When the people’s representatives are attracted towards such unproductive expenditure, what can we hope from them?

RNAC again

Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, Badri Pandey, saw the significance of the national flag carrier, Nepal Airlines. He said that the Nepal Airlines aircraft should fly as much as possible and he will make all efforts to make strong the Corporation.

As Nepal Airlines lacks the necessary aircraft, it has not been able to operate domestic as well as international services as per the need.

Minister Pandey said that only a strong airline under the government can boost the tourism industry. He said that if Nepal Airlines intervenes in the market, the airfare will come down and more tourists visit Nepal, which is true.

How to make the Airline strong, Pandey said that he is ready for policy intervention in the Corporation for reform. What is this policy intervention, we don’t know, but first of all, the prime minister and ministers should stop the practice of making the Corporation a party worker’s recruitment center. Besides, all the staffers’ unions have to be scrapped. The management should be allowed to work free-handedly but if they commit mistakes or are involved in corruption, the management should be punished.

Moreover, operating an Airline without necessary aircraft is just a joke. The government should coordinate in bringing the necessary aircraft.

The minister should take a lesson that how the Royal Nepal Airlines was operating in profit and how it was ruined after the 1990 political change.

Mahabir Pun’s satire on the government 

Mahabir Pun, who is running the National Invention Center, is trying to revive the Agricultural Equipment Producing Corporation, which has remained closed since the introduction of the multiparty democracy in the country.

Pun had an agreement with the Finance Ministry for a financial deal but the Ministry later denied providing committed funds to Pun for reopening of the factory. Pun then decided to manage 160 million rupees by selling his biography book.

The “loktantrik” Nepal has focused on socialism but in practice, “socialism” is just a political propaganda of our leaders. Running industries should have been the topmost priority of the government but when an individual is interested in running an already closed industry, the government has initiated the policy of discouraging him.

In fact, the political leaders and senior bureaucrats, who are under the grip of the brokers and serving those Indian Marbaris, are discouraging native businessmen and industrialists. As a result, today, Nepal has turned into an import-based country, a nation that totally relies on imports.

Dirty politics

Nepali politics is really a dirty game. Those accused of corruption charges and abuse of authority are influential ministers in the present cabinet led by K.P. Sharma Oli. Meanwhile, the coalition partners have decided to terminate Deputy Speaker Ms Indira Ranamagar on the charge of writing a recommendation letter to the American Embassy for a visa to some Nepalis with the plan of trafficking Nepalis to the USA.

The plan behind filing a no-confidence motion against Rana is that by position she is a member of the Constitution Council which assigns the chairs and members of the constitutional bodies. Since there is strong domination of the Maoist Center and the alliance partners are in the minority in the Council, the alliance partners cannot assign their sycophants. If a new deputy speaker is elected from the ruling alliance, there will be a majority of the alliance partners and without hurdles, the ruling alliance can assign their sycophants. Just for this reason, Rana is going to be victimized. Be that as it may, the Nepali politics under the present leadership cannot be corrected.

QUOTES OF THE WEEK

There is no other Nepali who lies as much as the country’s Prime Minister Oli.

Gyanendra Shahi

There are crusher operators and distillery mafias from East to West, who are in the nexus of the Nepali Congress general secretary (Gagan Thapa).

Amresh Kumar Singh

Reasons for reaching this state of not being able to increase the salary of the employees even by twenty five paisa are: large size of the employees; kings in every ward; constitution, federalism and huge size of parliament and province councils.

Narendra Bikram Chand

Vested interests, power games and power frenzy are pushing Nepal’s politics towards a principleless and destinationless direction. I spent 50 years in UML waiting for socialism to come, now I am thinking of alternatives.

Bhim Rawal

If BP was alive now, he too would have left the Nepali Congress party like Ganeshman Singh and Krishna Prasad Bhattarai. The current Nepali Congress is not the Nepali Congress founded by BP.

Ratna Sansar Shrestha

There has been news that the impeachment motion against the Deputy Speaker will be moved forward. There is no provision for impeachment against the Speaker and Deputy Speaker in the constitution. The position can be removed by 2/3 vote if their performance is questioned.

Bhimarjun Acharya

It is as clear as the sun that big and small leaders of Congress-UML are drowning in this cooperative fraud. Noida Maobadi has become a robber.

Dipak Gyawali

Everyone knows that the so-called great leader of the Nepali Congress, Dhanraj Gurung, sold the red passports of the so-called common MPs like Ramchandra Adhikari, Hasta Bahadur Malla. Dhanraj Gurung’s wife committed a scam in Miteri Sahakari. Dhanraj has given a fake divorced to his wife and sent to the USA.Deepak Raj Joshi

Russia didn’t move up onto NATO’s borders. NATO moved up onto Russias. Ukraine was the final straw. Now, many here in Russia believe that Russia will now have to push all the way to NATO’s borders with Ukraine You reap as you sow!

Chay Bowes

Why can you do “politics” if you can’t digest even one or two cooperatives?

Madhu Raman Acharya

Excerpted and translated by Sushma Shrestha.

BABBLES

By Babbler

There is a provision of compulsory retirement in the Nepal Police and the Armed Police Force along with the completion of 30 years in service. Through this provision, a police officer will retire at the age of just 51 or 52 years.

Earlier, the service tenure in the police force was 32 years. After the introduction of the multiparty democracy in 1990, with the plan of destroying the Nepal Police organisation and rewarding those “yes men” of the political parties, the provision of 30 years was introduced. Many capable officers got retirement and party leaders’ “yes men’ got promotions.

The nation invests a huge budget in providing training and different courses to the police personnel. After they get retirement, the nation can get nothing from them except paying pension to them lifelong.

In some countries, considering the government’s investment in the servicemen, the retirement age has increased to 65 years. Even in Nepal, in legal services, the retirement age is higher than other services.

Considering Nepal’s economic situation, the time has come to review the retirement age but the political leaders, less bothered about the nation’s future, are always playing dirty games.

Global warming and air pollution

Every day, we keep reading about the adverse impact of global warming and air pollution. Nepal is a suffering country, we can hear such remarks from the political leaders and environmental experts. Of course, developed countries are responsible for global warming and spoiling the air quality. These developed countries must pay compensation and make efforts to keep the global temperature at its limit. Besides, we citizens too have the responsibility to save our planet. If every family plants a minimum of four trees in their houses, we can contribute a lot to keeping greenery in the Kathmandu Valley. If the federal government or the local government introduce such a policy, greenery can be increased in the urban areas, which could contribute to developing greenery in urban areas. It needs no additional expenditure while doing so. Then, whyn’t the government develop such a policy?

Defining violence

When UML leader Yogesh Bhattarai, speaking at the Parliament session remarked that the 10-year-long “people’s war” was a bloody violence, the Maoist Center’s MPs protested.

The bloody insurgency launched by the Maoists in the name of “people’s war” claimed above seventeen thousand innocent people, also wounding thousands of people. Today, it is not a secret that the Indian government sponsored the so-called people’s war to defame Mao and China and to destabilize Nepal. The India mission became successful as there are anomalies in all areas. Maoists’ supreme leaders were working in the foreigners’ interests deceiving innocent Nepali youths saying that it was a war for transformation of the nation towards an offensive achievement.

What achievements that the nation made from the bloody insurgency, we don’t know, but the Maoists’ supreme commander, Pushpakamal Dahal got the opportunity to become the executive chief of the country again and again and he was able to manage his family members.

Some Maoist commanders in interviews in different media outlets, are blaming the Maoist leaders for looting gold and private property. When the Maoist leaders themselves allege their commanders as looters, we must believe it.

Be that as it may, the Maoists destroyed many important infrastructures dragging the nation 50 years behind. Moreover, the killing of those innocent Nepali people is bloody violence, whether the Maoists accept it or not!

QUOTES OF THE WEEK

 Within 15-20 years, at least 2-3 mass-transit (metro-rail) lines should be operational, if preparations and construction work are not started immediately, then in a few years, the urban transport situation in Kathmandu will be as terrible as that of Bangkok in the 1990s.

Surya Raj Acharya

Our ambassador to China Bishnupukar Shrestha returned home without meeting the Chinese President, Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, and even the Foreign Secretary, this situation also happened to Shankar Sharma our ambassador to India. Not trusting these ambassadors was and is a dishonor to this country. Be aware!

Prakash Timilsina

Dr. Chandra Bhandari cannot be accommodated in the Nepali Congress, similarly, Dr. Bhim Rawal cannot be accommodated in UML, but they have a space in the minds of the people.

Narendra Bikram Chand

Balen Shah is blamed for being the Indian agent by UML’s sister organisation. What is the Oli-led government doing? If this is a false allegation, what could be the reaction of PM Olijee?

Laxaman Ghimire

Which issues of national concerns were discussed when Oli held a three-hour-long one-on-one midnight meeting with Samanta Goyal? Prime Minister Oli has to inform the people through Parliament/public forums. Let’s hope it will be done soon!

Dhruba H. Adhikary

The previous alliance was made by Pritam Singh, a truck driver, and the present alliance was made by a Captain, a helicopter pilot. Our brother has spoken the truth. Some leaders claim that they had brought this system but the truth is something else. Will our brother speak about it also?

Mahesh Mal

How is the budget spent?:10% on vehicle fuel, foreign travel and helicopter use; 50% on salaries and allowances of the people’s representatives and employees; 15% on corruption/commission; 5% on education and health and 10 other areas; just 10% on development projects! ***Finance: Import Tax Ministry;  Industry: Alcohol Bar Ministry; Education: Ministry producing unemployed youths; Health: Business Ministry; Urban Development: Village destroying Ministry; Foreign: National, International Bhauju (sister-in-law) ministry.  Narendra Bikram Chand

(After Dipak Manange tendered his resignation from the Gandaki provincial cabinet saying that he felt bored from the ministerial position): I am no fan of this character, but I must say he sets a much higher ethical standard than the entire NC-UML cabinet in power currently.  They sure have made the country a joke!

Dipak Gyawali

Bhadra Ghale said: “During the election, the Indian embassy sent a car to pick me up one day at 11 p.m. I went and was well received. A diplomat gave me 65,000 Indian currency when I was about to return. When I asked what that was, the diplomat said, ‘Election expenses. We give election expenses to all leaders’. I returned the money saying that I cannot sell my soul just for 65 thousand rupees!”

Babu Lal Bhandari

(In reaction to Nepal’s proposed ambassador to Israel, Prof Dhan Prasad Pandit, that he would make efforts for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas war): Now, Biden, Kamala, Trump, United Nations, NATO, etc. should be sidelined.

Gorkhali has arrived!

Sameer Mani (A) Dixit

Excerpted and translated by Sushma Shrestha

BABBLES

By Babbler

Some Indian media are continuously lauding that if the interim government in Bangladesh betray India, the electricity supply to Bangladesh will be cut off.

How the Nepali politicians and economic experts took such reports, we don’t know, however, they are still talking about earning money by exporting electricity to India.

India is strengthening its bargaining card by importing more and more electricity from Nepal but where does the Nepal Electricity Authority manage the electricity produced in Nepal if India suddenly announces stopping the import of electricity from Nepal? In that case, Nepal should surrender and should say to India that we are ready to accept everything that India will ask to do. Believe it or not, we are creating an electricity trap while exporting electricity to India. To save the country from such a trap, Nepal should develop a domestic market for the consumption of electricity produced by Nepal.

Which are the mainstream media?         

The broadsheet dailies have shrunk to 8 pages from the previous 16 pages. People have stopped watching television, the so-called media houses are unable to pay the salaries of their staffers and journalists. This is the media scenario in the country. When a journalist publishes a report or a television journalist develops a story, they place the links on social networks just to inform that their reports have appeared. The television interviewers place their interviews on YouTube. All the television channels have linked with the YouTube and telecasting reports live. Still, the so-called media houses are carrying the past hangover and claiming their media as mainstream.

Time is changing and the mainstream era has already ended.

Always Gai Jatra

Since we observed Janai Purnima (thread tiding ceremony) on Monday, the Gai Jatra festival has started nationwide. However, the main Gai Jatra festival was observed on Tuesday, August 20. It will continue until the Krishna Janmastami festival coming week. The Gai Jatra festival was started during the Malla dynasty in Nepal. During these days, there was a rule of law and the rulers were people-centric. As human beings, they could also have committed mistakes. And the Gai Jatra festival was observed to indicate such mistakes of the rulers. The artists or say comedians were free to criticize the act of rulers during the festival.

Comedians and artists used to be busy while organizing a week-long Gai Jatra festival comedy show in Kathmandu. It was not easy to get a ticket to watch the show.

During this “loktantra” era, the Gai Jatra comedy shows lost attraction as the political leaders are performing comedy and everywhere, there are anomalies.

QUOTES OF THE WEEK

The Modi Government amends the Electricity Act to allow Power Companies to discontinue electricity supply to Bangladesh in case of non-payment of dues. The Modi Government tightens rules on cross-border electricity exports. Bangladesh’s annual inflation has jumped to a 12-year-high of 11.66% in July amid widespread anti-Hindu violence.

 Times Algebra, India

In the movement of 2062/63 BS, the protestors did not establish their recognition by winning, the movement was ended through an agreement between the king and the protestors. At the instigation of foreign powers, the parties and leaders betrayed the king by violating the agreement made with the king.

Kamal Thapa

In a country where a person becomes prime minister for times and even fails to lead the country, it makes clear that there is no longer a living society.

Bhimarjun Acharya

Arjun Parajuli took a loan by mortgaging the rented land; Rishi Dhamala got a bachelor’s degree without doing an intermediate course; Ramesh Kharel digested an informer’s allowance in the name of his wife is active in an anti-corruption campaign; Hark Sampang plans to construct an airport; Ravi Lamichhane finds the location of GB Rai. This is really a crazy country.

Ranjit Tamang

There is no reason to remember Prachanda as the Prime Minister.

Mumaram Khanal

Is the United Nations a strong weapon of the West? The United Nations team is going to Dhaka to investigate the death of more than three hundred people in the anti-government movement in Bangladesh. Information has been received through the media that a complaint has been filed against former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajid in the International Court of Justice. But what to say to the United Nations, which does not break a chain to prevent mass murder, and the Biden government, which condones murder, apart from taking action against the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, who took thousands of lives in Nihu Ma, who took revenge on Hamas? Russia-Ukraine was instigated by the United States and its allies. What to say about Zelenskiy who was instigated and what to say about Putin who is exhibiting excessive force?

Kamal Pradhan

On Independence Day, some newspapers received propaganda materials from the Indian embassy that reflected Nepal-India relations – and should have been printed as advertisements. Instead, it would have been easier for the reader to understand if it had been mentioned as ‘Sponsored Page/Section’ while printing in this way. The practice of printing sponsored content also exists in other countries.

Dhruba H. Adhikary

Excerpted and translated by Sushma Shrestha.