Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Second Impression

No world leader can match the eloquent lectures being made by their cousins in Nepal. Our leaders can talk any thing under the sun. Madhav Nepal even told a Chitwan gathering a decade back that if he were provided the prime ministership of the country, he would be able to sell Nepali electricity to neighboring China through the effective and marvelous use of the Satellite. This was the climax of it all.

This gives some hint as to what extent our leaders can befool the voters. However, they forget while doing so that they were themselves being dubbed as number one fools in the country. Indeed the leaders across our borders have added to the degree of our foolishness to an undesirable extent or else why personalities like Yechury could make sermons to our leaders to which our political animals listen to like obedient students.

To come back to the point, Nepali leaders more often than not talk of the upliftment of the Dalits, the female folks, and the Janjatis, Advasis and etc. However, when it comes to the crunch, they forget their previous speeches and lectures and act against all the sects and tribes or the gender.

In effect each and every political party currently operating in this country have vowed in the past that they would henceforth make it mandatory in their internal constitution that allowed the neglected class, castes and gender to participate in the political participation. However, when it comes to allowing seats to those mentioned above at time of elections or whatsoever, they either neglect the issues concerned or provide little attention to the issues thus promised in the recent past.

Now that the country is all set for having a new parliament, an interim one indeed, the leaders must not forget that without the effective participation of the neglected class, castes and the gender, the parliament to be formed in the near future and thus they must include those who have yet remained outside the periphery of political participation.

Intellect, sharp brain, dedication, honesty, experience in social services must be counted while elevating the ranks of the female folks in the parliament and care must be taken so that no caste or ethnic tribes remains outside the parliament or for that matter the interim government formed soon after the constitution of the parliament.

Noted social workers like, for example, Sujata Koirala from the congress, must be elevated to the ranks of the parliamentarian so that the country time permitting gets a new and energetic nationalist leader. Gone are the days of the old hats. New souls with indomitable courage must be brought to the parliament so that the country sees the participation of practically all the tribes, gender, castes and the likes whose convergence in the new parliament will provide a new dynamism to the already exhausted politics of the country.

Sujata Koirala is just one but example. Like her. Uma Adhikari-NCD; Hisila Yami-NCPM; Pampha Bhusal-Maoists; Tham Maya Thapa and Binda Pandey-UML.

Similarly, if the current leadership so decides they can pick up women personalities like Tulsalata Amatya, Dr. Prof. Shanta Thapaliya and advocate Sapna Pradhan Malalla from the civil society quota.

All put together, what I wish to say is that let there be an effective participation of all possible sides so that each and every section of the society felt that they were not neglected this time around.

If we can do so that would certainly amount to a real and practical inclusive democracy to which we all have been talking about of late. It would also enable the newly included ones to express their grievances and the state would thus be obliged to act for the redress of their perennial problems being faced by them since decades and decades. In addition to this, the parliament will also see the debate over how the liberal and the communist forces put their ideologies for the consumption of the masses.

It would be nice to hear speeches on liberalism from Sujata Koirala to be hopefully countered by Hisila Yami-the noted Maoists female leader.