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The country has been put into flames all the time and for every kind of protest. The country is paying a heavy price for that at the cost of development. People are made mere helpless spectators without any opportunity to exercise their fancies since 1998. Almost eight years have passed without having any power to elect representatives to make law and run the governance. They are being provided, one after another, the political program of agitations and violent confrontations. All are competing among themselves to supersede the other. Maoists have their share in the loss of 15,000 lives. Others who had joined the election politics under parliamentary democracy too have engaged in similar destabilization tactics. There is no political party and no political leader who stands against the current wave of agitations and violence as a pacifist inclusive to all. In such a situation, sensible persons are reminded the role played by B.P. Koirala in the last leg of political reconciliation. B.P. Koirala had led revolutionary actions in 1951 as well as in 1969. He had led agitations also to insist for certain political reform. But realizing a precarious geo-political situation of the country, he ultimately broadened his political base in which different views and interests could get just and proper role to play.
Now the Herculean task before the country is to restore the real power within the national forces which is the people as well as the King combined together. This is crying need for the survival of this country. Unfortunately, people do not have the leadership they deserve.
Nepal as a nation has been put into a melting pot again by the follies of party leaders and, to a great extent, by an unseen force which is at the last bound do be counterproductive before it is too late. It requires a great soul searching which needs a soul like Gandhi of India or B.P. Koirala of Nepal .
Continuity of institutions and values is a very significant contributing factor for the stability. And monarchy has maintained the continuity for the cause of stability. If it resorts to its extremism and rigidity, it loses its relevancy but if it is properly adjusted into the political set up and maintains its resilience, it would be a most useful institution representing the continuity in the contribution of stability.
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Death of industrialist Mohan Gopal Khetan is a great loss to the country. At a time when the country has been facing many challenges, industrialist Khetan had shown courage to speak against current populist trend. In his recent interview to this magazine, industrialist late Khetan spoke the bitter truth urging for the unity among all the people living in all three geographical regions. The death of industrialist Khetan has shocked the family of Spotlight.
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