Real threat or bargain?

Yet another round the congress as a party is apparently all set to entertain the national population. Staging of comical drama at regular intervals of time is perhaps nothing new for this party. The congress party, which is five decades plus old set-up, possesses a checkered history of having witnessed several real or man made artificial events which have all contributed to exposing the party as a conglomerate run by pretty inefficient and immature political leaders. Thanks the activists’ and their Himalayan patience that they have all along been bearing this mental agony only hoping against hope that a day will come in the party’s history when the old-guards would relinquish their party posts voluntarily and would finally ease the burden of the organization. However, that is not forthcoming at least for some more years. Looking at the utterances and the lust for power of the old stalwarts of the congress, their voluntary handing over the party’s mantle to younger generation leaders appears simply remote.

It is in this backdrop that the fresh "relieve Koirala campaign" which a powerful set within the congress has apparently initiated should be viewed. If media reports, more so those belonging to the congress' fold itself, were to be believed then it could be fairly predicted that Koirala as Prime Minister is having trying period at the fag end of his political career. A quite good number of congress law makers who even had point blank supported Koirala during the most unceremonious ouster of Bhattarai were supposedly lining up in queue for the formers’ exit from the Premiership much the same way as had been the fate of poor saint leader that is Krishna Prasad Bhattarai some four months back.

If the dictum that history more often than not repeats itself then perhaps the history should repeat even if it were for proving the proverbial dictum. Should the history by chance repeat as per the saying then that should mean automatically that Prime Minister Koirala would not treat his summary ouster from the coveted chair in a sober manner as had been exhibited by his nearest and dearest political rival-Krishna Prasad Bhattarai. Good or bad, Bhattarai’s sincerity towards his party perhaps needs no further proof. He exhibited it during his previous ouster. However, Koirala will in all likelihood retaliate in a forceful manner if he is pushed to the wall and told to quit by the majority of the congress parliamentarians.

Not very surprisingly, the disgruntled congress law makers currently not in good terms with their own party president who concurrently is also the nation’s Prime minister chose to push Koirala at a time when the latter was out of the land on a trip to Delhi. Perhaps it was this absence which brought Koirala’s detractors, old and new, together under some one’s superb instigation that the former is formally acquainted with. However, it is still unsure whether the battle will continue till fight to finish or will end up as usual effecting some bargains. The possibility of a grand bargain could also be predicted as the morality of the Nepalese lawmakers have already been exposed through various ugly events that the Nepalese population witnessed over these years. Quite understandably, the person who has taken the initiatives for the Koirala’s ouster this round is the same person who was denied the home ministry and the deputy premier post by Prime minister Koirala and it is perhaps this vengeance that appears to have prompted minister Khum Bahadur Khadka to go in for this adventure. The power lust society can only demonstrate such events. Whatever happens in the meantime in the congress party should be their problem. However, what happens there in the party perhaps entertains the population. Now how the Prime minister averts this threat should entirely be his personal problem as Girija is congress and vice versa

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