Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Our attention has been drawn towards the stoic silence acquired by Nepal 's influential leaders who were now ruling the country either being in the cabinet or in the parliament over the matters that have been appearing of late that Indian encroachments of our lands here and there continued unabated. We are surprised as to which factors could have made them all at a time deaf and dumb over a matter that is not only sensitive but a delicate one that could, if followed in its true perspective, could dampen the already proven "hollow" traditional "big-brother" relationship with neighboring India . Let it be so if it were so but Nepal and her leaders in no way bow down to these Indian continued overtures that pertains to land-grabbing which takes a new height as and when Nepal 's politics becomes fragile and unstable.

We the Nepalese want a durable peace and permanent peace with India . This much is wanted and desired as well. However, what should and must be rejected out-rightly that we as a nation-state and that too never colonized like our immediate southern neighbor must assert our rights that are due and legal. More so when it comes to the act of land-grabbing-it is perhaps these Indian habits that forces others to dub Indian union as an "expansionist force on earth-each and every Nepali must rise to the occasion and retaliate in a manner that they deserve.

Shame on us. Shame on us all.

No less surprising is the absence of the statements coming as it should have been from the quarters of the Maoists who claim, and they are in effect, that they were a strong nationalist forces of the country no less no more than other similar forces in the country over such sensitive matters. Their non-committal or exhibition of indifference over such delicate and sensitive matters, as it is undoubtedly, forces the population to cast doubts over their nationalist credentials or else why they have not made yet any scathing comments against the Indian encroachments of their own lands? The Maoists know better than any one else as to where the Nepali lands have been encroached upon even during their days in the jungles This is so because the presumption is that since they or their cadres were scattered all over the country, from west to east, from north to south- and hence it could be easily deduced that they know of the Indian encroachments of our lands be it in the eastern terai border or the west.

Thanks that Dr. Bhattarai, the number one ideologue of the Maoists party, has time and again reassured his fellow countrymen that upon assuming power, all the remaining and vexing and controversial things with India would be settled once and for all.

We the people have no other option left than to believe on what Dr. Bhattarai has said to the media. Let us hope that he and his party boss take up the matter seriously the moment they were in power.

Even a dull brain in the country would welcome the Maoists presence in the government if they really do away with all those controversial treaties, acts of naked interferences in Nepal 's politics and the likes that have become more like a sore in Nepali politics since fifty six years or so. The Nepali media-the rational and the more qualified ones-would heartily welcome the entrance of the Maoists in the government schema if they do what they are committed to and have been ventilating of late.

If they don't do what they have already committed through their various statements, lectures, articles and more so contained in their primary forty point demands, we the people will have no other option left than to bring them in the same category as the people have put the front runners of today's Nepali politics.

How they come to power, or how the establishment brings them to power is not a matter that is our concern. Let they decide on their own as per the previous agreements arrived at in between the two conflicting sides.

If every thing failed and no body or for that matter political paraphernalia listened to their grievances, then no force on earth can restrain Nepali population to did the past and champion the case for a "Greater Nepal". The treaties that were signed in between the Indian dominion and the Britain and at a later period the treaties signed in between Nepal and India allowed Nepal to voice its case in that regard.

We possess ample legal leverage that are backed by treaties to frame a writ petition in the International Court claiming that Nepal's genuine rights be established over the forcibly lost territories.

All hopes are pinned on Dr. Bhattarai and Prachanda!