Irresponsible Utterances
THE HOUSE of Representatives, Monday,
witnessed lawmakers from both the ruling and opposition parties unitedly condemning the
recent outbursts by some participants of a programme organised in the capital city by the
so-called Nationalist Youths’ Forum a few days earlier. The strong and spontaneous
condemnations by the ruling and opposition lawmakers came about when some of the
participants of the said function not only had the audacity to openly defame the
multiparty democratic system that was reinstalled in the country a decade ago by the
blood, sweat and tears of the martyrs and pro-democracy fighters but even had the temerity
to question the very rationale of ushering in the new dispensation. The uproar in the
House over the aspersions cast on the obtained polity and system of governance by those
participants prompted Home Minister Govinda Raj Joshi to issue a strong warning to all
those trying to undermine multiparty system. Minister Joshi, apart from saying that such
elements will face grave consequences, also pointed out that the government will not spare
anyone if they act against the Constitution and the laws. Going by the news reports of the
participants’ utterances, they were, by all counts, not only thoroughly mischievous
in intent but patently irresponsible in content too. As for the speakers themselves, they
can be termed as still living in a fool’s paradise. For, though the obtained
dispensation may be only a decade old, the spirit, hope and the aspirations that propelled
the long-suffering people and the then banned political parties to put their precious
lives, limbs and very existence at stake to re-usher in multiparty parliamentary system of
governance in the country are still as strong as ever. This can be vouchsafed by the
unequivocal condemnations by the people’s representatives, to a lawmaker, of the
uncalled for utterances of those delinquent participants as well as by the general
consternation and anger of the Nepalese from all walks of life upon reading of those
participants’ gall to censure the very dispensation that they have placed their
faith, hopes and aspirations to better their living standards.
It’s not that such disgruntled elements,
ever since the new dispensation was ushered in over a decade ago, had not been trying
their level best to defame the multiparty system through covert and overt actions.
Therefore, while the latest outbursts were verily a part of such subversive stratagems
frequently resorted to by these ultra vires, their utterances should also alert all
pro-democracy parties and forces to be eternally vigilant—which, needless to say, is
most essential to protect, propagate and buttress the hard-won multiparty system.
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