| Hurting the Sentiments of Ordinary Nepalese
-Dr Raj
In the book ‘People Politics and Ideology Democracy and Social Change in Nepal (1999) Martin Hoftun et. al quoted a senior Indian diplomat saying ‘by the year 2000 Nepal will become a part of India’. Despite his/her imperialist claim, fortunately, for proud Nepalese that nothing such has happened, and let’s hope it will never come about. At the same time, since the restoration multiparty ‘democracy’ in 1990, Prime Minister Girija Koirala and his cronies encouraged Indian leaders to have a colossal influence on Nepal's internal affairs so that their power could be secured. Leadership under Koirala not only accumulated national wealth in their pockets, but also managed to sell off Nepal’s natural resources to Indian government. Today the main benefit Nepalese have got is the inundation of country’s some 1800 kilometre long strip of fat plain bordering India – less than five percent of Nepal’s total land area that supports almost 50 percent the country’s livelihood.
After 1 February 2005, Sujata Koirala (or Jost, as she is married to a German national!) has arrived in Delhi begging Indian establishment to discontinue military aid to Nepal’ unless of course her power hungry father regains his political seat. Does she ever acknowledge that her authoritarian father is the one who actively created violent insurgency in the country? She is petitioning with Indian leaders that King Gyanendra’s move to protect the sovereign independence and territorial integrity of Nepal would be ‘bad’ for India. Hooray, Ms Koirala! This is precisely what Nepal needs after your unscrupulous father, who ruthlessly deprived 25 million Nepalese by making a few cronies, including you prosperous, and now you have blatantly become Nepal bashing. A word of caution though if in 3 years time your father or his ‘tails’ come to clutch political chair, they might have a lot of explaining to do for your thoughtless anti-China and Pakistan balderdash.
Also, lets just hope for Ms Koirala that her father and his associates do not have bank accounts like that of former joint secretary, Niranjan Prasad Chalise, embezzling more than NRs 41.4 million public money by opening 44 bank accounts in 17 banks in the name of his mother and wife. Otherwise the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) is on fast-track to recover years of looted properties of Nepalese people, and hand out jail terms. Ms Koirala might be finding an exit path to safe heaven for her father as well as all those plunderers, but lets hope the CIAA is also speeding up. For those who understand current realties from inside Nepal, it is a bit of joyful news that finally at least some national assets will be recovered before these corrupt individuals make their escape. Ordinary Nepalese are also hopeful that King Gyanendra will exclude all these uneducated and corrupt leaders, especially authoritarian Girija Koirala and his comrades. Failing to do so, would not bring any positive changes to Nepal.
Since King Gyanendra assumed all executive powers on 1 February 2005, we have not seen any individual acting ethically while exalting anti-King rhetoric, and remaining mute against Nepal’s People’s War totalitarians and corrupt politicians. So, it has definitely appeared that there is no point in following ethnical principles. Some names of those who are stalwartly misrepresenting the current events in Nepal have appeared in this article. It may afterall be acceptable to include such external individuals, who have taken Nepal’s politics as if it is their personal property.
From the imploring of Ms Koirala, it now appears that Nepal’s crooked politicians may be engaged in clandestine negotiation with Indian leaders. Such doubts are fading away for the fact that now we are hearing news headlines such as ‘India reaffirms its support to political parties’ instead of understanding the plight of ordinary Nepalese. Who knows Nepal’s destiny may be heading towards like that of 1950 Nepal-India (Un)Friendship Treaty that has kept Nepal like a semi-colony of Delhi. Nepal’s opportunist figures may be collaborating with certain anti-Nepal academics like Prof. S. D. Muni to prepare their strategic plans regarding how to make Nepal more subservient than ever by playing dirty games between the atrocious insurgents and a few nationalist Nepalese, including King Gyanendra, and by unfoundedly making China and Pakistan villains in Nepal’s internal politics.
Meanwhile, our foreignised Nepalese, some Western governments, and even academics, including Dr Karl-Heinz Krämer are opting to export ‘liberal democracy’ Constitution of Europe or preferably of the US so that all the ‘-doms’ of Nepal’s nano-minority can be secured. It has been clear from their use of abusive language against King Gyanendra while at the same time offering no alternatives to the current turmoil in Nepal. In fact, there is no men |
