Parking Problem
Knowing Bhaktapur as the cleanest and safe place to see many elite family come to see the traditional monuments with their family. Being rich they come in their private vehicles like car pajeros and bikes. Bhaktapur municipality has separate Tourist vehicles parking both for international and national tourists. The national tourists do not park their vehicle in park. But they use the area inside Darwar square as their parking spot, where parking is prohibited. The so called civilized tourist from capital city of Nepal is not following the rules in Bhaktapur.
Being the No parking Zone in the square the municipality has no its staff to collect parking charge. Because of unmannered parking inside the heritage zone it seems like something dirty in traditional places.
The visitors had no rights to violets the rules. Why the visitors who wish to see beautiful Bhaktapur are making its hazardous place by parking in peaceful area of square.
So please any one traveling in Bhaktapur are requested to park only in parking area by making the payments.
Rabin Rachalica
Green Team Bhaktapur
Hope Is Alive
Your cover story Poll Preparation: Hope against Hope (March 28-April 03) was very interesting. I agree with you that majority of voters don't want to vote simply for making a new constitution as Nepalese people have already experimented with six constitutions in the span of sixty years. People want peace, development and prosperity through the election of CA. This is a very important testing time for all the political parties whether they will bring peace and development in the country or not.
Saran Pradhan
Via- email
Enough Expertise
Nepal has enough of experiences and expertise on constitution making. I don't understand why political parties have been undermining this fact. Even the constitution of Kingdom of Nepal 1990 was drafted by the leaders of agitating political parties led by Nepali Congress. From Nepali Congress leader Girija Prasad Koirala to CPN-UML general secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal are still there who were involved in one or the other way in the constitution making process. If the constitution made by them failed to produce good results, how will another constitution produce better results? We have been wasting time in unnecessary issues of constitution making through the election of CA. I don't understand any rationale behind the arguments of political leaders who see the constitution made by Constituent Assembly as a panacea to all the problems. Many countries like Sikkim, Kashmir have lost their independence after holding the CA election. Political leaders must be cautious about the experiments of these countries.
Ramesh Chettri
Via-email Melbourne
Whose Baby Is It?
Although the CPN-Maoist leaders Prachanda and Dr. Baburam Bhattarai have been claiming that Constituent Assembly is their own baby, the history shows otherwise. The decision to hold the election for Constituent Assembly was taken on both the occasion in 1950 and in 2005 in the Indian capital New Delhi under an India-mediated peace agreement. In 1950, India was a mediator among the King, Rana and Nepali Congress. In November 2005, India was again the mediator for 12 point agreement between the CPN-Maoist and Seven Party Alliance. If that is the fact then how can Maoist leader Prachanda claim that CA is his agenda?
Madhushudhan Bhattarai
Via-email
Confusions Increase
After reading the interviews of CPN-Maoist leader Prachanda and Nepali Congress leader Govinda Raj Joshi, I drew the conclusion that the goons used by Young Communist League are not associated with CPN-Maoist led by Prachanda. If they are not his cadres, why are they attacking the leaders of opposition parties? The time has come now for CPN-Maoist leader Prachanda to admit that he doesn't have any command and control over the YCL. Nepali Congress leaders, too, have similar kinds of problems. In many cases, Nepali Congress youth wing worked against the direction of party just like the YCL does. Unfortunately, Nepal does not have leaders who can call a spade a spade.
Jasmin Lama
Via-email
Insincere Lot
Like in the past, leaders of political parties have shown that they are not sincere towards the concerns expressed by the people. If one reads party manifestoes of country's major political parties, one can find out the lack of clarity in their vision. As a communist party, CPN-Maoist tries to distribute the false promise with the target of 22 percent growth rate annually for ten years. CPN-UML's vision paper is another bunch of populist slogans. Nepali Congress too is not serious about the issues of public concern. At a time when the common people in general wants peace, stability and economic prosperity, no party has any concrete vision for that. This means they will inevitably face another round of rebellion. I hope political parties will seriously address the problems related to common people.
Aita Bahadur Gurung
Dubai, Via-email
Viewing From Far
Although I am far from my country, I have been closely watching all the activities in Nepal. What I find strange is that nobody shows any interest to exploit the power of large number of youth population. As you know, we have been working hard to build many countries of the Gulf. If similar drive for construction starts in Nepal, there are a large number of Nepalese who would want to serve our motherland. As all our leaders are trying to divide the nation on the basis of language, ethnicity and region, we might be embroiled in decades long conflict and we will not have any time to think about development.
Krishna Rai
Doha Via-email
