Letter from Germany on Herr
Chautaut, NEPAL’S MOST WANTED!
It is not that the Nepalese intellectuals
living abroad were not concerned with the sad events happening in their motherland.
Certainly they exhibit their utmost concern as and when they listen to or read about the
corrupt and the most undemocratic practices acquired by our so called most undemocratic
democrats. Letters pour in our newspaper office in hundreds and hundreds from abroad
wherein each and every Nepali individual expresses his or her concern and at times they
also offer some valuable comments on what has got to be done to correct the malaise that
have gripped the country. However, the fact is that since they reside very far from their
motherland and hence could only express their anxiety or even annoyance over the Nepali
state of affairs through the use of electronic mails. Such mails are well being received
by our professional colleagues as well and that too in quite good numbers.
To day I wish to print one email which has
been sent from Germany by a Nepali intellectual who fortunately was the guest of honor at
the Telegraph weekly's media seminar on good governance held in Kathmandu last year on
November 23. Mr. Hari Bansh Dulal enthusistically attended the entire proceedings of the
Telegraph seminar and at times posed some timely and relevant questions to the paper
writers. This letter deals with our last week's news item in which we had describes former
minister Chataut as Nepal's most wanted person. Let us enjoy how this Nepali intellectual
is feeling about the whole Chataut affair in his own words. We appreciate his feelings and
wish that he exhibited his concerns in the future as well.
Follows his letter: "It is distressing
that Former Tourism minister Mr. Chataut charge sheeted for causing economic plunder in
RNAC’s has been absconding and competent Nepal Police is left in wonders about his
where about. By doing so Mr. Chatautat is ignoring logic, history, and democratic morality
and Nepal police is loosing its reliability if left any.
Democrats and communists alike bear full responsibility for this most recent abandonment
of the moral principles upon which Maoist insurgency has been flourished and corrupt
politicians are born.
By definition a democracy is a tyranny of the majority, In Nepal, it seems to be the
tyranny of the special interests. It seems democracy in Nepal inevitably is controlled by
demagogues politicians irrespective of parties and ideology. In context of Nepal, the word
politics: poly, means many — and tics can be regarded as blood-sucking parasites.
Politicians are getting richer day by day where as poor populace is abandoned to pay off
the national debt which they never saw even. we pay their salaries while they’re in
office and if they are fined, they pay the fine with money that ultimately came from poor
Nepalese. If any class in nepalese society is having the so called fruit of democracy then
its only politicians who are in "Win-Win" situation.
The state’s money must be taken out of the hands of the irresponsible politicians. If
the situation doesn't’t improve in the near future and politicians like Chatautat are
not dealt with strict law the society will go into total disintegration or the best
citizens will find emergency solutions in self defense. Remember former Yugoslavia,
Lebanon, Estonia, Latvia, Cyprus, Tibet . . . Indians in USA.
Also, at the level of verbal advocacy, government leaders have talked constantly about
Political morality and good governance. Unfortunately, talk about the need for reform has
mostly been just that-talk. It is rare that talk is followed by action. A glaring missing
link is a " action plan" that would translate words into action.
After a terrible, troubled and problematic 12 years of democracy, a country like Nepal is
in the situation that we can not afford further democratic official violence and
corruption.
I do not know how the Nepalese intelligence took the news of Mr.. Chatautat attending the
meeting of parliamentarian in Baluwatar but I was shocked how law abiding Prime minister
entertained Mr. Chatautat and what was our great Nepal Police doing then?? These Questions
are open to all regular readers of this news paper.
What Mr. Koirala as a premiere must know
is... ... If a sea captain ignore leaks - the ship will sink. If the nation is to saved,
the corrupt politicians must go the way of their predecessors - Hitler, Stalin,
Mussolini and Pinochet.
HARI BANSHA DULAL
GERMANY. |
