Don’t pose threat to democracy as predicted by Huntington 

Country’s democratic order is not that fragile and shaky as is being given to understand. Understandably, it is the special set of, we would say, sophisticated politicians who consider the system going to the dogs should this government continue in power for long. The system will instead remain ever strong provided the namesake democrats mend their ways. In effect, the pseudo democrats must shoulder the responsibilities for whatever political aberrations fake or real, has taken place in the recent months. It is this set that facilitated the advent of what they themselves call "derailment" in the system and in the 1990 constitution as well. The lay men, read the marginalised population who either were totally neglected and denied participation in the system of governance or developed a sort of allergy with the politicians on account of their disgustingly "undemocratic and unconstitutional" political behaviors that they exhibited immediately after the restoration of the present order as back as in 1990. If the system is fragile and has become shaky as per their conclusions after the October 4 move of the Royal Palace then the politicians who manned the system and its governance for all along these "traumatic and chaotic" thirteen years must now apologize and vow in front of those whom they cheated every five years at times of the elections that they would henceforth not repeat the blunders they committed while being in power.

Samuel P Huntington, an American scholar of international repute not for nothing said a couple of years back that the democratic order of the recent times would see a reversal due to the follies of those who have had championed the cause for the restoration of the democratic orders. How nice it would have been if Huntington were here to talk to Girija Prasad Koirala and Madhav Nepal and listening from these two top-hats as to how they ate up the system like a moth and that too within a short span of thirteen odd years. Huntington would have enriched his brain on how the political parties and leaders like Koirala and Nepal could incur such a damage to a system, which universally is taken as the best amongst the worst. He would have learnt from these two stalwarts on how to corrupt a system and how one of the world’s best order could be degraded in the eyes of the people to the extent that the lay men begin questioning the suitability and viability of a system which brings to the forefront leaders of the sorts of Koirala and Madhav and the likes.

How a system becomes instantly fragile and undemocratic if the post of the country’s executive goes to personalities other than Girija and Madhav? How a system becomes shaky and a "threat to democracy" emanates when corrupt politicians like Wagley, Khadka and Gupta are interrogated by country’s competent and authoritative legal institutions for their corrupt practices that siphons nation’s treasury? How a system like ours becomes undemocratic when our politicians are told to follow the do’s and the don’ts of the system itself?

Should this mean that in the name of democracy the Nepali leaders be left to act on their own whimsical manner and yet the people, read again the media and the lay men left in the cold since 1990, not ventilate their concerns simply because the follies have been committed by towering personalities like those mentioned above?

If it is so then we salute the democratic system of the sort of what we possess today. If a system that doesn’t allow its own citizenry from pinpointing the blunders and the Himalayan mistakes committed by their "people’s representatives" in order that the mistakes are corrected in due course of time simply because the persons committing such blunders had made certain contributions for the advent of the system itself then again we salute such democratic order. We salute once again a system which allows its leaders to cross the constitutional limits as and when they wish and yet claim that they did so constitutionally. We salute the system and its parliament secretariat which willingly and very pleasingly pays for the fake bills submitted by a male people’s representative who posed to have become "pregnant".

If there is threat to democracy then it is from the quarters that are crying foul these days. Neither the monarch has a desire to pose a threat to the order now in place nor he could afford to do so because if he does so will tantamount to going opposite the current.

Mend your ways O! Whimsical leaders! Don’t pose threat to democracy as predicted by Huntington.

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