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Vox Populi, Vox Die
Understandably the nation is geared up for the constituent assembly elections. If this happening were the wishes of the majority of the population then it has got to be accepted for it has been rightly said, Vox Populi, Vox Die-a Latin saying indeed, whose literal meaning is the Voice of the people is the voice of the Almighty. So let's all accept it.
However, many questions still deserve deep attention both of the political leaders and the academia must ponder over to answer the population. For example, a population that had yet to understand the meaning of the democratic system and the political gains that could have been extracted from the very system have now begun talking of a different system that is, we presume, entirely different than what we have had for the last fourteen years or so.
The internal nitty-gritty's of the constituent assembly need to be propagated as to what it is in effect and essence? What were the differences in this system that we are going to opt for ourselves as a system than the very system, which we have had for the past several years? What more political benefits we the people were going to have if this new system were adopted and how? The fact is that many academicians in the country plus the political leaders who have been championing the cause for the elections to the constituent assembly themselves appear to be at loss in having understood the internal dynamics of the said assembly. So when our own revered leaders and acclaimed academicians have yet to understand the real meaning and the fruitfulness of a new system that has already become the talk of the nation, how it could be that the lay men who comprise more illiterates than otherwise will know or be made known of the real intent and the content of the assembly elections.
Does not this question which is attached to the fate of the millions and millions of the people demand an intense debate and discussion before the nation gears up for having that as a future system for the country?
For the lay men it has come as a chirping bird. For the academicians the question of constituent assembly could be a food for thought. For the intellectuals a topic for debate and discussion. And for the political leaders, those who understand it well, could be a system which bodes well for the nation.
We presume that the internal dynamics of the constituent assembly can best be explained by the Maoists who from the very beginning had been championing this cause which much later got the nod of the parliamentary parties. It is time that the two top hats of the maoist insurgency, Comrade Prachanda and the known ideologue of the party-Dr. Babu ram Bhattarai- to explain and make it bare in order to assure and ensure the countrymen on and about the constituent assembly elections.
They must explain the procedures to go in for that. They also must take the people in confidence about the qualities contained in the system and assure the population that if the new system were adopted, all the national ailments will be done away with. Concurrently they also explain that since the previous system have had these particular anomalies and hence could not deliver goods to the people and thus the demand for an entirely new system.
How to go with that? Who the people will thus take part in the said assembly and what would be the procedures adopted for the selection or for that matter the election of the would be representatives who will at a leter stage chart the very future course of the nation and also of the fate of the denizens? How the new system would address the real and genuine concerns of those teeming millions and the so far neglected and rejected sections of the society if the new system were adopted?
So many questions have to be answered prior to going to the new system. If it is done so by taking the entire population into confidence, the newly adopted system will last longer or else what is the guarantee that the newly acquired mode of the politics be not rejected as the Maoists themselves rejected out rightly the previous system?
Above all, how the Maoists will behave with those who would at a later stage beg to differ with the newly adopted system and enter into the jungles demanding an altogether a different system of governance in the country much the same way as they did some twelve years ago?
Many brilliant questions remain to be answered. It would be nice and proper if the people know it better prior to the declaration of the assembly elections. Or else a people in the remote West and elsewhere as well which preferred not to even understand for a variety of reasons, poverty factor at the first place and the burning problems of having two meals a day to which they had been denied by the prevailing system, what the system they have had for years could also ignore the new system for the same plausible and logical reasons.
It is said in the realm of political science, which is backed by social science as well, that conflicts can never be eliminated once and for all. If there is a society, conflicts emerge. Conflicts can only be managed. Once you manage or resolve one issue of conflict, the other crops up thus providing a continuation of the conflicts. No system on earth has so far been able to satisfy each and every individual or group of men belonging to the society. The society never remains in a static form. Dynamism is there always. And it is this dynamism that explores the possibilities or finds some genuine issue and initiates a sort of conflict with the State for the redress of their issues confronting them and not addressed or even ignored by the State. Some feel that the system in prevalence has ignored his or her problems and pressing issues, which ultimately prompts them to become a rebellion.
However, there is nothing to panic. When ever the society gears up for a change such questions do crop up which is only but natural. Take the people in confidence first and then act. It would be wise enough to let the common people understand about the system that they were all set to adopt soon.
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