Deuba’s bombshell!

Since the ruling Nepali congress never remained transparent in its domestic political affairs and more so in the hefty donations it receives from declared and even undeclared sources, the party thus could be fairly said that it is an undemocratic political entity. However, it acquires both of these two credentials, transparency and democratic qualities all of a sudden, as and when its own activists and at times the senior leaders, expose the party’s inner blunders. In doing so these leaders and activists make their party stand in the comity of the democratic ones and that too by default. In essence, democracy and transparency go together. This is, however, not true for the congress. For this party any one of the two qualities or at times the total absence of these both constituents also qualifies this party as a democratic one. This is simply because the congress has very cleverly made democracy synonymous to its party and vice versa.

Only recently the former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has made his own party a democratic one. If the honoring of differing voices coming from various leaders of a single party were to be considered to be a democratic exercise then it is the congress and the congress alone which could boast of number one democratic party in the country. In effect, it is the single party perhaps in South Asia who could claim as many leaders in its party as there were simple workers and activists. That way this party could yet again claim that this party is the most liberal among its contemporaries in this part of the world. However, it might differ with others as regards to the perennial infighting and never ending power struggle in and among their own party leaders. Others clash for a cause. The NC men create ugly scenes for grabbing power. This is also unique in Nepal’s Nepali congress.

Deuba the other day exploded almost ‘gelatine’, which in all probability should have jolted from within at least those congress parliamentarians who clandestinely were favored by the local administration at time of the last elections. To recall, Prime Minister Koirala headed the NC led coalition government that time which was partnered by the UML party. To recall, that was an election that had been conducted by the two political rivals being in the government and thus predictably the results had to go in their favors. Deuba’s fresh allegation that those who won the hustings through the massive use of money and government backings could in no way face the Maoists let alone bring about a viable and amicable solution to the insurgency. Apparently, Deuba’s hints are directed more towards Prime Minister Koirala and his close aides who too enjoyed the administration’s support during the elections. This open authoritative challenge has come from Deuba at a time when the author of this allegation is himself suffering from sheer frustration for obvious reasons. Yet the exposition of the fact should be taken seriously. Deuba’s blunt assertion of the sort mentioned above definitely exposes the lust of the power mongers who wish to conduct the elections by being in the helm of affairs of the state so that political maneuverings could be engineered against the immediate political rivals at the poll constituencies. Concurrently, it also poses an indirect threat to the very legitimacy of the government formed after the general election held some one and a year half ago. The legitimacy aspect to the current authority arises more prominently simply because the Himalayan allegation that have been labeled by noneless than the stature of a former Prime Minister of Deuba’s sort has come close on the heels of the statement made by the Prime Minister who himself a month back had stunned the nation when he had said that some smugglers and Mafia men have succeeded in entering the nation’s parliament. Putting these two allegations and assertions together what could be inferred here is that the national population possesses a right to question the legitimacy of this set up. The government under Koirala must respond to the allegations hurled by Sher Bahadur Deuba or else we will be forced to understand that the establishment under Koirala possess no right to rule the nation. That’s all.

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