Madhav Nepal's bombshell

Clearly the national politics is slowly but very uniformly shifting towards the all-powerful Palace. The shifting thus could be deliberate or the otherwise as well. However, the timing of this perceptible shift is unconditionally loaded with meaning. This shift has come at a time when a sizeable chunk of the population through their chosen leaders and politicians have been voicing the need for the constitutional monarch to assume some meaningful role in order to save the country from being formally pushed to the rim. Speeches and lectures to this effect have been heard of late from various districts who have very clearly demanded the dormant monarchy to assume some sort of assertive role and the pleas forwarded for this by this section has been given to understand that the current men manning the system have squeezed the nation for their personal ends and that if the monarchy remains asleep for long then the nation would have to pay a very heavy price. This plea could well become a matter of debate for the intellectuals of this nation. This notwithstanding, what is for sure is that the nation has already paid a very heavy price in terms of deteriorating economy, decaying political values and what not and what not.

To give a real phillip to the former appeal, only a fortnight back a very mind boggling hypothesis had been forcefully advanced by noneless than Madhav Kumar Nepal, the UML strongman, at an all party meeting organized at former Prime minister Bhattarai's place wherein he is supposed to have told the gathering of leading politicians of this nation that the "national conundrum confronting the nation today were beyond the control of the ruling congress and that only an all party government could do the needful in this regard". This blunt disclosure of Madhav Nepal also has come at a time when the ruling congress party were in a majority and that within a year or so of the congress party being in government two sets of Prime ministers from the party in power have taken avowal of providing good governance to the nation. The first set, unfortunately, saw a shameful exit due to the follies of its own top-hats assisted by their own set of parliamentarians and the current one that ousted the former is also perhaps experiencing the same sort of threats from the rival quarters. Though Madhav Nepal's blunt view were not given due attention by the men present at the Bhaisepati Summit yet the fresh admission of the UML stalwart could not be summarily dismissed for obvious reasons. His disclosure though appears ridiculous but yet is not impossible one considering the fact that it is this country which in the recent past saw the general elections being conducted by men in the ruling party having partners in the coalition government from the main opposition. A grand coalition indeed where ruling party and the opposition practically shared the election booty caring little for the stipulated and established election code of conducts.

Madhav Nepal's new submission might possess some grains of truth in its own rights, however, the crude reality has been that by this time the silent majority have already experienced several holy and unholy alliances of various hues nd cries as suggested by the UML leader. However, the names given to various coalition arrangements formed in the past were different. This notwithstanding, the timing of the new scheme as forwarded by UML leader Madhav Nepal merits attention from intellectuals and political pundits of this Kingdom. More so Madhav's contention that only an all party government can do away with the current problems of the nation appears to be based on mere childish assumptions given the fact that whosoever comes to power from national political parties in the government as envisaged by UML leader will be undoubtedly those influntial Nepali leaders who at one time or the other were in the cabinet and that their past history the people have still not forgotten. Those were the ministers at different intervals of time whom being in various cabinets only wished to squeeze the national exchequer for their personal well being and nothing elese. Instead of floating such flippant thoughts the UML leader should have given programs on how to bring in about a change in the ever deteriorating living standards of the people living in abject poverty which were in millions and millions. Perhaps this is the need of the hour if the system were to continue for long.

Be that as it may, the thoughts forwarded by Madhav Nepal at this critical time when the national population is worried and appears to be in an agitative mood due to the non-performance of the successive governments including the present one led by Koirala is full of meaning. Whether Nepal's utterances were deliberate or otherwise will come to the open shortly. More so, the recent utterances of main opposition leader is undoubtedly is a slap to the majority rule of the congress which had appealed the people prior to the election to vote the party in power in majority and look the charismatic results in favor of the people. However, the results are just the otherwise that their own activists very honestly accept.

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