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The festive season is over but the anxieties of poor Nepalis are still haunting them. The SPA government and the Maoists do sit down and talk but cannot arrive at a final solution. It looks both the negotiating parties are losing their grip on the problems. The initiative seems to be gradually shifting into alien hands. And the government and the Maoist leadership are behaving like helpless kids. Before it becomes too late, it is time for Nepalis all over the kingdom to rise up and assert their sovereign rights of managing their own country. The manner the restored House of Representatives and the SPA government have behaved, it is becoming crystal clear that they did not deserve the mandate if it really was the people’s mandate. The discredited politicians who were rejuvenated by the follies of the Palace have again lost the people’s trust and confidence. The Maoist leadership, although still untried in statecraft, are turning out to be collaborators and losing public sympathy before they ever hold the reins of government, must dissociate with the corrupt politicians lest they get tarred with the same brush. At a time when the nation is at the crossroads of survival and annihilation, we need patriots with unimpeachable integrity to lead the country. We have burnt our fingers with the present leadership too many times to stay complacent again. It is not a time to serve one’s personal or partisan interests when the nation’s integrity is at stake. It is a time for all nationalistic forces to rise and unite and defend the country’s integrity. No one can or should stay disinterested. The SPA government has failed once again to rise to the occasion. The humiliating defeat at the United Nations, the non-appointment of country’s representatives in fifteen countries for such a long time, the rampant corruption plaguing all the departments of the government and the utter failure to safeguard the nation’s prestige and honor, all these have clearly demonstrated that the government has forfeited its right to stay in power. If they have any semblance of honor and honesty and even an iota of love for the country, they must vacate for a better set of people and the Maoists can join the new government after laying down their arms. Let the new government immediately go for the election of the constituent assembly. There is absolutely no time to lose. Our country has suffered a great deal and those who cry hoarse for democracy are least affected. Moreover, they keep on destabilizing our country knowing fully well that democracy only works in a country where they people can chart their own destiny. So, let us be our own arbiter. The SPA government that installed itself at the heat of the demonstrations has let down the people and the country. In such a crucial time, the security forces cannot stay a silent spectator. They must come to the rescue of their motherland. And Nepal ’s security forces are too patriotic to shirk their responsibility. Let us keep our fingers crossed.
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