Last salute to late King Birendra!

No body had even imagined in their dreams that things will change so suddenly in Nepal. The kingdom's greatest and towering personality on whom the national population had reposed hope and had expected that He would arrest the ever deteriorating national affairs left for His heavenly abode last Friday evening. A sort of gruesome killing spree that occurred inside the Royal Palace on that fateful evening took the precious lives of His Majesty the King, Her Majesty the Queen and Prince Nirajan along with Princess Shruti and some other members of the Nepali Royal family which thus forced the nation to become instantly "parentless". However, the details of the ghastly killing are yet to be furnished by the concerned authorities to which the national population is awaiting anxiously. Any delay in making public the exact happenings, which took the lives of the most revered members of the Royal family, could presumably invite unwarranted chaos in the Kingdom. Hence it would be advisable to all concerned, more so to the government under Koirala, to act fast and convince the national population about the reasons and the causes and the person(s) involved in the ghastly incident of a dimension never heard before in the pages of history.

Nepal's intellectuals compare the enmasse killing of the Nepal's Royal family members with that of the killings of the Russia's Romanaov's. However, there is a marked difference in between the two sets of two different incidents. The killing of the Romanov's is understandable in the sense that the revolutionaries wished the overthrow of the then system in Russia. In Nepal, as things have been given to understand, this sad incident has happened well inside the family of the Nepali Royales and that too at a regular usual dinner. So there is the difference.

Fortunately enough, the newly declared His Majesty the King, Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, has assured the nation that He would make public the details of this sad incident after ascertaining all the facts at the earliest. Let us hope that things would be made public in a convincing manner.

The sad incident that occurred inside the Royal Palace last Friday also reminds the Nepali population of the KOT Massacre of 1846 in which almost a similar killing spree had taken place. However, that was the matter of the distant past and the circumstances then and now is obviously quite different.

Be that as it may, the national population in the sad and the sudden demise of their beloved monarch King Birendra has lost from amidst them a very noble, sincere and committed democrat. Late King Birendra was almost like the father of each and every individual citizen of this nation which got reflected in the manner the majority of the population shaved their heads as a mark of respect to their beloved monarch. In Hindu tradition, this sort of respect is considered to be the highest to which the late benevolent monarch.

Finally, the nation has been robbed of a King who was sincere and always longed for the betterment of his subjects turned citizens. He was a statesman not only of the regional stature but without as well. The condolence messages which have been sent by various world personalities on King Birendra's sudden death and the kind of languages contained therein the messages all conform to what we have said in the preceding lines. More so, King Birendra's contribution to the formation and the consolidation of the SAARC process in South Asia will be remembered by all the men belonging to this part of the region for decades and decades to come.

Equally, the late King's personal contribution in the enhancement of Nepal-India and Nepal-China ties and bringing these bilateral ties to today's level will also be ever remembered by the nations concerned.

Finally, we run short of words to register the innumerable contributions made by late King Birendra in the strengthening and the consolidation of the system now in place which have all been timely recorded by the politicians now manning the system today.

Rest in peace Ye monarch! Last salute to You!

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