Two thirds of Nepali population will expectedly have become politicians by 2010

The Singaporean President, Lee Kuwan Yu, had once said that there were two professions in the world that do not require proper tutelage at the schools. According to him those two professions were politicians and journalists. If one were to see the headway chart of these two separate but yet identical professions of the country achieved well within these twelve democratic years what could be best said that every second man in the crowd is a politician and the fourth man in the same jungle of men is a free-lancer.

To become a politician all that one needed is the blessings of an already established higher in rank politician. What has got to be done is to support the senior one by in-the- queue- politician at time of the general elections. In the process, if the senior one gets elected should conclude that it was his "support" that got him elected. The support could include all the four Ms: money, media muscle and management. However, in the Nepalese context the first and the third M are what are counted. Election in Nepal must mean that at least some one is dead and countless injured.

Unofficial statistics perhaps should reveal that each general election facilitates hundreds and hundreds of "new politicians" jumping onto the political scene. This means that after a certain lapse of time, Nepal will have in its population only and only politicians. The rest of the disciplines in the society either will perish or would prefer to quit the country for good for fear of becoming a politician.

I can't imagine what would happen if the entire population of this Himalayan Kingdom become politician?

However, if that happens, there is nothing to panic. Because a politician could be the "antidote" for the other set of politician(s). We have been told by the medical practitioners that the antidote of snake venom is itself a higher grade of snake venom itself. It is thus that the society will stabilize itself. In scientific and economic terms it is called a state of "equilibrium".

I am not a statistician but then I too could conclude that if any discipline in Nepal that has attained the upward trend unfailingly by every passing year, it is and should be the number of politicians and political parties. This is the beauty of democracy that it produces more politicians than any thing else. The very hidden idea of democracy, I suppose, is to turn the voters into politicians first and then give them an excellent oratory power and finally provide them with pelf and power for which they apparently wished to jump onto a profession of its own kind. It is here that a certain politician gets "politically, economically and socially stabilized" for a person or say the politician's "end" is met with.

The second aspect, which is a negative one, begins presumably like this. Suppose the would-be politician supports his or her favored senior politician but the latter gets defeated. The "'supporter"' gets frustrated. He however, still becomes a leader. He then starts to call the election a "rigged one". His collaborators support him and later this set of the failed ones' come to the streets and demand a thorough probe into the very conduct of the elections. The election commission passes on the buck onto the heads of the appellate court which consumes pretty good time and by time it gives its verdict the time for the next election is already at the door steps. If this set yet again gets defeated at the next election, the failed ones begin criticizing the system itself. And in the process, partly due to frustration and partly due to declining age, the defeated ones form a group of those who summarily hate the system through organizing lectures and pamphleteering. This provides "plurality" to the democratic system as academicians begin debating about the governance, globalization, liberalization and indeed privatization which in essence gives the whole affair a global dimension. The media then picks up the matter suiting to their exclusive "political interests". The media's role in informing the lay men is then excessively praised. The lucky ones enjoy foreign trips as well.

At times, the main opposition for obvious reasons supports this set. However, the main opposition supports this set only on points they too differ with the ruling party. The continuation of such processes adds to the glory and the beauty of the system to the extent that the international community more so the developed West dubs it to be a "vibrant democracy" worth copying for by emerging new and transitional democracies. The West feels pride in having supported such democracy that took off the grounds well only within a decade of its advent in the country.

But the story doesn't end here. The West perhaps will come back to its senses when it would be told that these politicians suddenly become ill (the illness that never was) and get their flattened false medical bills reimbursed. They remain dumb founded when they will learn that even a male "politician" person can "apply" for "pregnancy bills". Their surprise will take a new height when they will learn that the parliament secretariat reimburses payment even for such "unnatural claims".

So my conclusion is that by the year 2010, two thirds of Nepali population will have become politician. I can't imagine how our country will look like when that would happen. The sinking Nepali economy and the tourism industry will suddenly take an upward trend for clearly the "'foreners" would love or even rush to visit Nepal to see for themselves the country where the number of Gods will remain far short of the number of politicians, numerically speaking. At one time our country could be a "donor" country. What prestige we will have then among our traditional donors till some times back? The tag of being a donor driven beggar country is about to be lifted soon. It is said that when Almighty wishes to help some one, the eternal help some time could come even damaging the rooftop of one's thatched house. All that we have to do now is to encourage the youths of the country to join politics without wasting time. Time and tide wait for none, these promising youths must be told through the use of electronic media.

I wish to see this happening during my lifetime indeed.

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