Dinesh In Public
FINALLY, His Majesty’s Government, as
per the repeated demands of the Maoist leaders, made public the other day the whereabouts
of Dinesh Sharma, a Central Member of the underground Nepal Communist Party (Maoist) along
with Deena Nath Gautam, one of his colleagues. Maoists’ leaders had been calling on
the government make public the whereabouts of Sharma and other Maoists activists "who
had gone missing" as the primary condition to create "minimum environment"
to sit for the talks with the government. And the government fulfilled the demand by not
only making Sharma’s whereabouts public but also releasing him, thereby creating the
"minimum environment" for dialogue between the government and the Maoists as
demanded by the latter. More importantly, with the government’s latest move, the ball
of dialogue is now placed squarely in the Maoists’ court. Undoubtedly, the impacts of
the unprecedented announcement Sharma and Gautam made jointly—that they had, on their
own free will, decided to sever their ties with the party once and forever—before the
journalists could be by now reverberating through the Maoists’ echelons. And, amongst
the effects, the futility of the Maoists’ cause, ideology and struggle. For, the duo,
in a jointly signed press statement, further said "When evaluating the past five
years of the peoples’ war, we arrived at the conclusion that incidents of violence,
killings, terrorism, hooliganism and rape have increased rapidly and the rights of the
general people to lead peaceful lives are being violated."
Certainly, the Maoists’ insurgency is
posing as a great problem before all the countrymen and the nation. Nearly 1,500 persons,
including Maoist activists, police personnel and general people have been killed during
the five-year-long insurgency. As such, it has become urgent to end the ongoing insurgency
through dialogue. Towards this end, the government, as pointed out by Minister for
Information and Communication Jaya Prakash Prasad Gupta in a statement, has honestly met
the conditions set by the Maoists’ representative during talks with Deputy Prime
Minister and Home Minister Ramchandra Paudyal. By releasing Sharma the government, without
any conditions, has paved the way for the purposed dialogue between the government and the
Maoists. Now, all the countrymen are waiting for the Maoists to reciprocate the
government’s good intention and gesture so that a peaceful resolution to the burning
issue could be found. The sooner, the better.
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