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The general outcry for the amendment of the interim constitution has vindicated our stance that the constitution must be scrapped as it does not meet the urgent requirements of the people or the country even halfway. It has been drafted by small insensitive men to please their employers by strengthening their illegal grip on the administration. The drafters, the legislators who approved it without even a proper reading and the government all have been badly exposed of their self oriented intentions. The interim legislators who try to pose more autocratic than an autocratic monarch have clearly demonstrated that they don’t represent the poor people and should not be permitted to frame the sacred document if the country wants to avoid a highly volatile and dangerous situation. Naturally, it will cause some more delay in framing a new interim constitution. The delay must be accepted in good grace rather than pushing the country in the direction of a devastating civil war. And this is the most appropriate time when prime minister Girija Prasad Koirala can redeem his soiled image to some extent. It is about the most opportune time for him to atone for his past sins. If he has even an iota of love for his country or his poor countrymen, he must not fail to pluck the courage to put his foot down and save the country from going to utter ruin. At the fag end of his long life, let it be the one “better thing than any he has ever done before” that will definitely lead him to a “far far better rest than he has ever known.” At the moment there is no other person in this wretched country who wields more authority than him. It is, indeed, a unique privilege to exercise such an authority in this twenty first century when the number one man in the world even does not exercise such authority. At par with Nero, Tamerlane or even our own Jung Bahadur, Koirala has to prove he is not made of any inferior mettle and must use that authority in the interest of the country at this critical time of its history.
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The agitations the people of terai have started demanding their legitimate rights must not be permitted to go out of control. The Madhesiays have to understand that they are not the only one who have been victimized by the rulers of Nepal . Even the dwellers of the hilly regions, who were not fortunate to belong to the higher castes – the Brahmins, the Chhetris, the Thakuris or the Newars namely the Maguralis and other Janjatis too have been similarly victimized and discriminated. Consequently, it would not be right and in the interest of the country to try to characterize this agitation as that of Terai people only. Rather, the Madhesiyas and the Maguralis and other exploited segments of the society should unite and put up a joint front to oust the corrupt and unscrupulous politicians from power. Because we need no further proofs to prove that these politicians in power are interested only to safe guard their personal and partisan interests. Had it not been so, how could they keep on paralyzing the administration of the country for more than nine months? Why? Because they cannot agree how to share the spoils of the Jan Andolan II? As such, let all the aggrieved millions, whether they are from Terai or the hills get together and snatch their long deprived rights from the clutches of the discredited politicians. It is high time the aggrieved people clearly told our international friends and donors that they must stop patronizing the unscrupulous politicians and help the people to change the leadership if they really mean to raise their living standard and deliver them from their miseries. If not, the country will be embroiled in grave convulsions endangering its very integrity. Portents are clear to read unless one is blind.
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