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Stalemate unjustified?
Niraj Aryal
Unsubstantiated reports have it that the Monarch was left speechless, more so puzzled as the state-home minister Sone Lal Yadav informed him that, Your Majesty, I have found out that the police and the administration in the country, both are involved in trafficking weapons for the Maoists. The minister further informed that the weapons come from India through legal routes, YES…., through legal routes…, passing the government installed custom-offices.
This is what reveals, the Jan Aastha, vernacular weekly in Nepal which reported this sensational news while citing an anonymous source last week.
The meeting had taken place in Ratna Mandir, Pokhara where the monarch is staying for his informal visit of the western region.
If this incident really happened then what is clearly visible at this point is that, with a bunch of worthless ministers like the one who dared to report this breathtaking events, the King’s road map seems to be in peril. It is not working at all for the monarch or his ministers themselves were a trouble for the implementation of the King's desires. There can be a debate between those who support or oppose him blindly and those who obviously want him to correct his mistakes over the issue. But here stress is given to the point, with all the modesty and humility to the monarch, that it is not working.
Add to this the one Magazine conducted survey hints the same that the royal government is heading in a wrong direction. The survey, a first of its kind, so questions can be raised in its authenticity as it has done in the past as well, in the randomness of the data collected, the process of sampling, and as accepted by the journal itself the time factor and the validity of data collected. Debates can continue even here but I want to brush aside everything and propose the stakeholders to just read what is written on the wall. And refliche.
But the problem is no body wants to read anything written any where, because this is not a war between the moderates, it is full of extremes. The goal is to rule but not to compromise. All the stakeholders call it for the people. Tthe desire is to remain or even bounce back to power. In the people’s appointed cabinet as the rule ended, it was obvious that the people lost everything. The monarchy can thus learn from people’s experience and check on what is happening. But people then had no choice; still they have the hope of retrieving everything. Here monarchy can’t loose, and there is no process called retrieval in this case. Some are making it more complicated. Take for example a minister in the royal cabinet, Mr. Kamal Thapa, the royal appointee in the home ministry, blessed for his fiery tongue targeting the SPA leaders. Obviously justifying his appointment, perhaps more than expected he is performing well. The decree here is continuing serving in this manner. His Majesty must be satisfied with his appointment. It reminds of the time -the initial days of democracy, people were more than happy with their representatives. But the situation at the moment is even worse. The country is in a crisis, and if the monarchy by holding the responsibility seeks to forge an agreement, will his men be able to deliver him that.
The men who opt for a strategy to protect the state by suppressing the people and showing extreme measures such as cutting telephone lines to imposing curfews in the 21 st century may lead to a disaster for the monarch himself. Let every thing go unhindered unless situation so demanded. This would be a democratic exercise.
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