Stop making erratic utterances!

Nepal’s so-called politicians have apparently gone crazy. It is this breed of political animal, which has brought multitudinous sufferings to the people, to put it mildly. It is this lot that has compounded the people’s problems over the years. It is this group that has squeezed the national exchequer to meet its personal ends. It is this bunch of a very selected few that has confused the lay men to the extent that they prefer now to talk on other peripheral matters instead of listening to the stale lectures aired by the government owned, controlled and dictated national media throughout the day. However, the tragedy is that the people are forced to listen to the humbug ad nauseating fiery lectures through the idiot box and the likes. In the process the people have become restless and have been thinking on the lines on how to put a brake on such leaders who have been misleading their own voters and in the process the system-one of the best systems in the prevailing world- is being given a very bad name.

The sitting home minister humiliates the ‘sovereign’ people and tells them to embrace ‘death’ if they were afraid of the Maoists insurgents. The fact is that the home minister offers his ‘sermons’ to the innocent civilians while heavy security personnel protect him. The fact is that the lay men have been the targets of the policemen during the day and of the Maoists during the nights. How could a government person who enjoys heavy police protection and lives in posh buildings in town feel the agonies of the people who remain under constant threat to their lives both by the insurgents and the government’s law and order machinery. The most surprising part of the whole story is that how this minister could dare to cut such demeaning jokes at the people who have just become sovereign at least for the namesake? How this minister could pass on such humiliating comments on the people who by and large possess the authority to unseat such erratic persons? It is these erratic utterances from government quarters that has perhaps prompted the lay men in the remote areas to shift their ‘moral sympathies’ towards the Maoists’ insurgents. If irresponsible utterances come from responsible quarters the people too possess the right to retort. However the fact is that the people, read the common men, can’t retaliate against the men in the government so they normally praise the government’s enemy or support their moves directed against the government. This they do without thinking of the consequences which follows later. My enemy’s enemy is my friend so goes the old dictum. The minister is thus advised to apologize unconditionally.

Similarly, a well functioning Speaker of the Lower House of the Nepalese parliament openly and very candidly admits "those who thrived on local brews, now have become Scotch Whisky devotee". He further questions at a very special seminar that how could the ‘rag-bag-bobby-tail’ of the recent past accumulate fortunes to an unimaginable tune within a short span of only ten years. He questions himself whether this amounted to an act of open ‘corruption’ or not? During the lecture the Nepali dignitary blasts at all those politicians who have recently elevated their ranks from a footpath dweller to the owners of posh buildings in no time. The nation and the national population do agree with Speaker Rana Bhat’s assumption and the blunt assertion. The two differing comments that emanates from the same ruling party quarters apparently hints at the fact that the ruling government and some of its members differ on so many issues that plague the nation e.g. the corruption issue and that of the Maoists insurgency. It is in this back drop one has to see the fresh announcement of Prime Minister Koirala who point blank told a meeting in his home constituency that the Maoists issues were not at all a ‘political one’. This blunt assertion of the nation’s chief of the executive has come at a time when an influential section of his own party members take the said issue in a different manner.

What the national population today needs is a clear cut view regarding the Maoists issue and more so on the rampant acts of corruption both of whom have jolted the nation. A disturbed and internal strife ridden ruling party as it stands today, little could be hoped of it in this regard. However, the more it takes time to tackle these menacing issues, the more the nation will loose ultimately threatening the very existence of the order now in place.

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