Stop making provocative utterances !

Making issues out of non-issue has become a regular feature in this troubled country. In the process inestimable time is wasted which could have been utilized for the benefit of the country. However, the fact is different. The Nepalese leadership at times creates funny situations, which becomes very difficult to digest. Concurrently, the men in the judicial sector too at times create confusions in the minds of the lay men regarding their credentials. It is in this light the current discussion that is going on in between the Nepal's Legislature and the Judiciary should be taken. The fact is that the lawmakers in the parliament got pretty offended when the Nepalese Supreme Court recently ordered the government not to disburse the lawmakers' fund unless a law regulated the criteria and the procedure of such funding. In effect, the court only wished to regularize to the best of our knowledge the funding to the lawmakers through the enactment of an appropriate law. However, the lawmakers took it in a different way and preferred to talk ad nauseating against the men in the judiciary.

The fact is that the Nepali court in doing so only has valued the people's genuine concerns who conclude that the lawmakers have in the past misused the state money for their personal benefits. The court is well aware of the naked reality when a sizeable chunk of the Nepali lawmakers drew considerable amount from the parliament secretariat in the name of buying a capsule called FORTRUM which is only used at time when a patient is considered to be in his or her last critical stage. The funny part of the whole episode is that Nepal's lawmakers and that too in considerable numbers all of a sudden became sick to the extent that they had to be administered with the life saving capsule which we are told is very expensive one. The shameful part of the entire episode is that none of our lawmakers were in critical conditions at that time when the parliament secretariat did pay the bills of the said capsule Fortrum. A terrible fact indeed. The lust for pocketing state money by some of our lawmakers grew to the extent that one "gentleman" got extra payment from the secretariat from the "pregnant women's" heading. Perhaps this should explain the concern exhibited this time by the Nepal's Supreme Court. This was too much for people-the real taxpayers indeed.

Understandably, had the lawmakers in the past not exhibited such appetite for money and not set a very bad precedent, the people or for that matter the SC would have presumably not interfered in this matter. The SC has largely appreciated the people's feelings to what they possess for their own representatives at the moment. With due respect to the lawmakers, what we wish to suggest is that what is the harm in getting the funds well after the enactment of a law that would later guide the flow of the money to them. The manner they have taken the SC order as an affront and have been passing on unsuitable comments against the Judiciary will definitely damage whatever prestige they bag in their constituencies.

This in no way mean that we possess only words of praise for the men in the judiciary. Had the Nepali media left to exercise its "media power", it would have by now exposed several high placed personnels in the existing judicial system. The fear of being dragged to the court or for that matter being penalised by the court, the majority of the pressmen do avoid printing matters that go against the men in the judiciary. The fact is that not all men in the judiciary were sacrosanct. If the media were left free, things would come in a very different way that would expose the internal nitty-gritties of the Nepali judiciary. However, the fact is that we are not allowed to do so.

We must suggest the men in the judiciary that they too must refrain from activities that damages their respect in and among the people. For the common men yet believe that it is the judicial system in Nepal that commands respect for it is not corrupt as other sectors of the existing Nepali society. However, some cases that have happened in the recent past forces us to conclude that some appropriate laws must be enacted that takes care of such irregularities at times committed by some men in the judicial system.

With malice to none of the two very important organs of the State, we wish that these two equally competent branches of the nation-state supplement each other instead of hurling comments which is only exposing their credentials in the eyes of the lay men.

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