Take it easy, Nepal's Police
force!
Prime Minister Koirala does not mince words. He is straight forward. Some say
that he is honest and innocent as well. However, I've no idea about his being honest and
innocent. Yet, what I have understood about him is that he becomes sentimental while
making lectures and that he recalls himself being in the same profession years back
whosoever invited him for the lecture. Once some peasants invited him for their annual
convention. Koirala said that he too had been a peasant and that he understands their
grievances very well. Some times later, factory workers had their celebrations. Koirala
told them that his career began as a worker and that too in a factory. ( This much is
correct as I myself have the knowledge that he was working at the Biratnagar jute
mills-NPU). Yet at another time, he was the chief guest of Nepalese women folks. Here too
Koirala said that he found himself more closer with the women folks as his very name
GIRIJA belonged to the female domain. Moreover, when ever he is out of Kathmandu and is on
a tour to some villages, he would never fail to tell the men of the village that he had
been impressed by that particular "village" right at the beginning of his
political career. And so on and so forth.
Thanks Almighty that while talking about the Maoists and their threats,
Koirala has not said that he too had been a Maoists' prior to joining the politics some
five decades back. At best he had led the contingent that initiated armed attacks against
the system that sent them for exile in India . That way he is the first armed rebellion,
much ahead of the present Maoists', to have gone berserk against the system.
That he is honest and innocent, as some say, came to light last week when
Koirala as the Prime minister of the nation addressed the Police men at their head
quarters. Whether it was deliberate or his innocence I leave it to you the readers, Prime
minister Koirala bluntly blamed the Nepali police men posted along the Nepal-India
borders that they support the miscreants and help import the deadly weapons which later
sneaks into the hands of the Maoists who in turn use the same weapons for their killings.
During the lecture he also hinted that weapons for the Maoists were being supplied from
India through illegal means. And that the police men at the porous Nepal-India
borders manage the grand entry of the deadly weapons. Most surprising of it all was his
disclosure made then regarding the espionage activities and the standard of the Nepal
police. Koirala bluntly said that the Maoists' far surpassed the Nepal's intelligence
agencies in collecting the "secret" activities of the other side. This means
that the rebellions far excel in their duties so far the espionage is concerned vis-à-vis
the government. This again means that in Koirala's opinion the Nepali police personnel's
who have been given this job were not up to the mark. This finally means that Prime
Minister Koirala does not believe in the reports collected by his police personnel's
regarding the activities of the Maoists'.
The blunt charge, made in public which got wider coverage in the Nepali
media, by the Prime minister against the Police force perhaps would shock the police men
and in all probability discourage their stamina. The Prime Minister should have given this
"bitter pill" to the policemen in private. Publicizing the negative points of
the law enforcement agency would only prove counter productive. A word to the wise man
should be enough. |
