Who will bell the wild cats?

That corruption exists in Nepal at all the possible levels have been best illustrated by a survey recently conducted by Media Services International, a Nepali NGO run by Nepalese journalists. The hair-raising disclosure of the MSI has coincidentally come at a time when the whole national population have been affected some how or the other by this menace. It is not at all a secret now in Nepal that the money received from donors and the government funds, which have been allocated for the upliftment of the poor people of the country all go to the big wigs manning the system. The process surprisingly continued in the newly restored order and the men pocketing the money were none less than who blamed the leaders of the erstwhile system to have made the people of this nation poor. The so-called democrats of the present system have in many ways corrupted the system and thereby given an impression to the people that money for them remained close at hearts than the system for which they struggled undoubtedly for several years. The MSI revelations must have jolted the people and those as well who have indulged themselves in the acts of corruption and amassed wealth at the cost of the poor lot of the nation.

Be that as it may, control of excessive corruption and thereby exposing the noted corrupts of the nation in series appears to be in the high agenda of the ruling party and the main opposition as well. Both appear determined to root out this plague from the country's political scene. The recent slogans and the subsequent measures initiated by mainly the powerful opposition later followed by the ruling party government gives some solace to the people who by this time have already developed a feeling that the menace of corruption should have not even spared the country's Prime Minister let alone the leaders and the ministers who at one time or the other ruled the country during the past ten years of this system. The atmosphere has been that each and every body in this nation, literate or even illiterate, talk of this menace. However, some say that this might be simply a mere gimmick to divert the attention of the people who demand performance from the government. This tentatively applied to the opposition as well because a sizeable chunk of the population  believe that most of the leaders manning the current main opposition too were not sacrosanct and that if appropriate authorities begin digging the UML leaders recent past surprising results will definitely follow. Presumably, the leaders or say the politicians who came into the political scene of Nepal after the advent of this restored order if brought to trials perhaps would divulge details of their foul conducts regarding their present assets which in no way come close to their previous earnings at the beginning of their political career ten years back. But who will bell the wild cats?

Surprising is the fact that the UML which created furore over a few names whom the party dubbed as corrupts, kept stoic silence about some declared corrupts in their own camp and in the present cabinet as well. Supposedly there were still more declared and notorious corrupts in Girija's cabinet but their names have been purposely deleted. This perhaps speaks of the UML intentions to save a few under the instigation of some powerful coterie in the congress. This also leads us to imagine the possible deal that could have been finalised in between the initiator of this corruption slogan with those in the government to save a few good names from being published to avoid public condemnation. This is like you save me , I'll save you approach.

Yet the efforts initiated both by the government and the opposition needs to be appreciated. However, there lies a danger as well. The manner these two forces have initiated moves to expose corruption and the corrupts, is some how faulty one. The whole process appears to have been guided by vengeance, which possess the risk of inviting retaliation from the accused quarters. If seeking vengeance is the single motto, then what could be easily predicted that a ugly scene awaits the nation which will facilitate hatred at all the possible levels and the net result would be that each individual would dub the other as corrupt. The whole nation thus will look like a place of corrupts which is perhaps not true save the leaders and the politicians. Just imagine the presence of a horrible chaos in that situation.

The corrupts must be exposed. The corrupts must be penalized in public places and their inappropriate assets must be confiscated by the state and the money thus received should be diverted to the areas where the common destitutes hanker for a meal a day. However, care must be taken that no one innocent gets penalised out of personal animosity. The state must not also harass the opposition for the opposition sake. More so Prime Minister Koirala is hereby advised to clean his own cabinet, which supposedly houses declared corrupts dubbed not only by the opposition for opposition sake but by his own party men. The cleansing act must begin from the congress house itself. This will enhance the prestige of the Prime minister indeed.

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