Broken Nepali hearts and ‘agenda-less’ foreign trip

Thanks the sagacity of the United Nations Headquarters that Prime Minister Koirala could at least take some respite from the in-house non-ending hostility of the party, which "most fortunately" he heads. Though Koirala’s voyage to New York had already been finalized in advance yet the timing of the ‘foren outing’ has coincided at a time when the nation’s Prime minister -concurrently the president of the party which has made him the Prime minister needed some ‘cheerful moments’ only to forget the ‘bitter recent past’. The two weeks which the Nepalese Prime minister will spend in Europe and America will undoubtedly provide him moments to study how the leaders of those countries screw their party men at times of crisis. Since the Nepalese Prime Minister’s visit is "agenda-less" which means that he will have plenty of time in enriching his brains with new ideas and tactics later to be applied in the nations context, more so against his own party rebellions at time of the impending party convention. When the chief of the delegation is himself on a program less tour, the job of the accompanying entourage members could be guessed in advance. The Nepali delegation will in all likelihood buy half of Europe and America as the Dashain festival has already come to our doorsteps. This they would do at the cost of the national exchequer. Consider how happy would the children of their family be when they will receive European and American shirts and toys. And consider the negative impact on the kids of those who have hand to mouth problem every day. All in the name of keeping the name of the nation high abroad.

A Prime minister who has miserably failed to tame his own cabinet members could only be called as a lame-duck chief of the executive. A party president who lives under permanent fear of being dislodged by his own party activists could simply be taken as weak master. Finally, how such a personage can convince the leaders or say the counterparts with whom he will have talks on "bilateral ties" at the ramparts of the UN building. Indubitably, the leaders with whom our Prime minister will be having bilateral parleys there will have by then be briefed by their respective embassies in Kathmandu regarding the fresh "battle Royale" which Koirala had with his nearest and dearest political rivals. Those who will greet Koirala in the United States or in Europe will perhaps give much credence to the reports sent by their missions in Kathmandu instead of our Prime minister’s version. Predictably, the Kathmandu based missions should have told their respective governments that Nepal under Prime Minister Koirala is totally unstable and the people there have already developed some sort disillusionment with the system now in place solely due to the never ending conflict in the congress party for grabbing power and nothing else. And this is a fact. We in this regard verbatim agree with what Communications minister Jay Prakash Gupta told a media gathering the other day that if the hearts of the common men were broken due to the non-performance of the leaders of the nation, such broken hearts would facilitate the collapse of the democratic system currently in vogue in this Himalayan Kingdom.

Minister Gupta is correct while he admits these hard facts. The people definitely possess broken hearts. Just one example firstly: the prices of sugar have swelled and so many other necessary common items, which the lay men need at time of the festival, are missing from the market. And secondly consider the bomb that fortunately did not explode at Sushil Koirala’s house last week. This perhaps tells the sorry state of Nepal’s law and order situation. When Sushil is not safe in Nepal then no one else is safe to put it bluntly. However, Nepal’s Prime minister is on a foreign trip that is considered to be agenda-less. Speaks of Girija’s avowal of providing good governance in the country.

It is high time that the international democratic community based in Kathmandu scolds the congress and tells the party in no uncertain terms that they would react to such intermittent ugly scenes in the congress with stringent actions. If the responsible and democratic nations do not rise up to the occasion will mean that they too wish the country going to the dogs. That’s all.

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