Pandora’s box reopened!

The main opposition party, the UML stands totally exposed in the eyes of the entire population. The party that not only vociferously demanded the constitution of an independent commission but also created ugly scenes during the period of Bhattarai establishment for investigating the "election meddling" commissioned by the then Koirala government that controlled the last general elections, today itself has been accused of having played foul practices in Nuwakot district and thus managing election victory for its candidate-Rajendra Lohani. The verdict has been finalized by the Patan election appellate court that summarily made null and void the election victory of the UML candidate. This conversely meant that the writ petitioner, Dr. Prakash Chandra Lohani has been adjudged to be the genuine aggrieved party and has been declared victorious. This automatically means that the UML man, Rajendra Lohani who had been attending the Lower House of the Parliament since one year or so would be stripped off of his membership of the parliament.

With the reversal of the court verdict, which went as expected in favor of the aggrieved party apparently, has opened the Pandora’s box. All sorts of evils have gripped instantly the Nepalese constitution. Now the million-dollar question is that what would happen to the prerogatives and facilities that Rajendra Lohani enjoyed in the capacity of the honorable member of the legislative body? Inquisition could be made whether the state or for that matter the legislature could get the money back from him? Similarly, what could also be rightly questioned here as to what would happen to the national laws or for that matter the acts, which might have already taken concrete shape with the signatures of the now deposed Rajendra Lohani. A sitting parliamentary member of the Lower House in all probability should have put his signatures in some important documents over full twelve months or so of his tenure in the lower house of the parliament, which might have its impact in the national matters. Now what would be the status of those documents in which the ousted member put his initials? Should it go through unquestioned? A host of such legal questions could be posed at this moment whose answers must come from the concerned authorities on time so that the national population could assure themselves of the final position of the things after such uncomfortable situations and that too in the constitution.

Be that as it may, the fresh aggrieved party that is the UML parliamentary party member Rajendra Lohani has gone to the Supreme Court. Let us all wait for the SC verdict. However, if the SC reverts the Patan court final decisions, it would in all likelihood bring in a sort of constitutional crisis of the sort never experienced before. This notwithstanding, the SC verdicts has got to be accepted by all law abiding citizens. This is the beauty of democracy.

Koirala minus arrogance a strong Prime Minister

Undoubtedly, Girija Prasad Koirala minus his arrogance and his special attachment towards his family men , more so visibly for his daughter, Sujata Jost-Koirala- equals to a very strong Prime minister. This personality is undenyingly a very hardworking person who could despite of his current age has remained instrumental in at least giving a concrete shape to the organization currently he heads. His organizational capabilities remain par excellence, which no one else in the party can think to challenge, not even his present political rivals that is Sher Bahadur Deuba and Bhattarai individually or even combined. This way he is superb. However, his weaknesses too were numerous. The first visible weakness in him is his illusion that after him the nation and the party will go to the doom. His own party men not to talk of others have all along criticized his arrogance and stubbornness. Koirala’s internal desire which stands exposed by this time to all and sundry to hand over the coveted posts of the party and that of the nation’s Prime Ministership to his family lineage is by all accounts his Himalayan weakness. It is this weakness which in essence brings him every time in the media and the latter possess no good words for him.

Good governance; curbing corruption and maintenance of law and order were his three point agenda while assuming the present coveted seat of the nation’s chief of the executive. However, we leave it to the Prime minister himself to assess his own performance in these regards. Making tall claims is different and bringing in to effect those claims is entirely different. Prime minister Koirala’s temptation to engineer the ouster of his own party colleague from Prime ministership perhaps has boomeranged. This perhaps the Prime minister understands better than any body else.

One simple advice to the Prime minister: say good bye to arrogance; keep family relations at a distance; unite the various lobbies well within the congress that were working against the overall health of the party; trust activists and gain their confidence and dismantle the inner coterie as soon as possible. It is this coterie that more often than not misguides the prime minister and forces him to issue orders that goes not in the favor of the common men. Finally, try to exhibit that you are the Prime Minister of the nation but not only of the congressmen.

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