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What we apprehended has happened. Our predictions have come true. The ruling eight parties of Nepal have machinated to postpone the elections to the constitutional assembly. The chief election commissioner has been made the scapegoat. We still are not sure whether the twenty six million poor people of Nepal have been able to see through the evil designs of their tainted politicians who are ruling over them. If not we would like to advise them to read an English daily newspaper “Pioneer” of most recent days (don’t remember the exact date) published in India. One of my good friends fed me with this piece of important news. We would like to quote only one sentence from that article recommending the rest to be read. Quote “Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala is totally clueless [to] what is happening in his country – even if he knows he is unable to do anything of consequence.” Unquote. Doesn’t it clearly mean that GPK is a mere puppet? The de facto Prime Minister is behind the screen. This is nothing new, at least for us, as we have been emphasizing on it for years. Be that as it may, the question now before the patriotic Nepalis is how to arrest the rot and save the country from plunging into disintegration. We know, apart from an insignificant few thousand hangers on of these political parties, the huge mass of poor Nepalis have been totally disillusioned with the political leadership and are desperately looking for person or persons who will deliver them from their perennial miseries. It is high time for them to wake up and see the real faces of their leadership who have been taking them for a ride all the time. It is high time they saw through their blaming game to hide their hypocrisy. And it is high time they issued a new “mandate” to the group of honest and patriotic Nepalis who along with the Security Forces will shoulder the onerous responsibility of defending the integrity of the nation. Neither is this the right time, nor are the politicians in power the right and appropriate people to decide the fate of the nation, which only the constitution framed by elected representatives of the people is authorized to do. And this not the right time too for the varied ethnic forces of Nepal to press for their just demands. Indeed, they have been victimized for a long time and do deserve not only compensation but fulfillment of their legitimate rights. Since their fight is neither with their brethren fellow citizens nor their country but with the leadership, they must not do anything that would contribute to the detriment of the nation as a whole. Since the overall situation in the country is very volatile and only a strong and resolute action can control the situation, Nepal’s good friends like the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom and China must not wait for second thoughts to use all their means – men, money or materials – to save Nepal from utter ruin, even extinction. If they really mean well for Nepal and the Nepali people, they can no more depend upon this incompetent and corrupt leadership.
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