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Handle with care…
Clearly the ball now is in the court of the political parties and the rebels who managed a positive culmination to the agitation sponsored by the seven political parties to steer the nation as per the wishes and the aspirations of the teeming millions who were expecting a change, albeit a positive one, in order to see their own participation in a system wherein they had been neglected so far by the rulers of the country. The people this time around came to the streets for a change which they expected would bring the fruits of development to their door steps which they had been denied so far by the managers as well of the system who ruled this country for well over a decade or so. The people this time came to the streets to see their hellish life see a new opening that would chart their future not by a selected few but by those also who had been purposely neglected so far even during the past democratic years.
Clearly, the twenty day long agitation that has just ended with a happy note thanks the kind courtesy of the rebels who in effect gave a proper and required shape which brought about the changes that we have been witnessing at the moment.
Now that the change is there for all to see, what remains yet to be seen is how the new managers, most of them are not afresh altogether, take the country to the desired heights of the majority of the population who have so far not seen what development looked like and what the then existed system meant? To be frank, a great chunk of the population in the remote western region were denied their due rights by the powers-that-be in Kathmandu who had made it a habit of charting the future of the teeming millions residing in the western region by being right here in Kathmandu. A small coterie of bureaucrats and some East looking ministers must share the blame and take the responsibility of not being kind towards the plight of the people discussed in the aforementioned paragraphs. Their prolonged neglect of the Western region could well be made liable to penal actions which resulted in the culmination of the hatred and animosity of the Nepal's Westerners for the elite class that ruled the country beginning 1950. As a matter of fact, people when get utterly frustrated and neglected by the State authorities for a prolonged period they opt for taking revenge in a manner that they suit the best. It is no surprise then that a sizeable chunk of the population residing in the Western part of the country took up the arms to deal with a State that exhibited its apathy towards their burgeoning and Himalayan problems and countless of issues. It was here at this stage that the Maoists leaders, as a matter of fact, came in contact with the neglected ones and convinced them of how to take the rightful and justifiable revenge.
All put together, what has come to the fore is the combination of all the past follies and failures committed by those who have had ruled the nation so long.
Now that the rebels too appear to be willing to join the mainstream politics of the country, it becomes their bounden duty to look into the matter seriously for the redressed of which they took up the arms some twelve years or so.
However, wisdom must prevail on the new managers of the country before taking any drastic decisions. An act made in haste always does more harm than good which is what should not happen. The Maoists too should well understand that they have been clinging to those who were too a part of the problem in the past and whose atrocities perpetrated against them too forced them to enter into the jungles.
Any way, let's presume that things will be all right and the country takes a new direction enjoying the sympathy and support of both the domestic as well as international forces.
Handle the emerging situation carefully as things have yet to settle down. Politics continues to remain fluid still.
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