Irrational comments have no meaning!

President of the splinter congress Monsieur Girija Prasad Koirala has gone crazy. This gentleman develops a serious and a peculiar type of syndrome as and when he is denied Chair at Singh Durbar. His sickness becomes more and more acute when his Chair is snatched by any other personality even if it were his own partymen. At least in Nepal, there is no remedy as yet which could treat Koirala and make him a perfectly sound political creature. There is no doubt that he is a political man having contributed his knowledge and political expertise in the restoration of democratic order in the country. That way he is undoubtedly a political hero of this country whose democratic credentials can't in any way be challenged. But what could be challenged is his terming every thing undemocratic and unconstitutional as and when he is out of power or is denied power. This means that what Koirala does while being in government becomes democratic and constitutional even if it were otherwise simply because he has done that. Consider the fact that he is the longest serving Prime Minister of this nation specially after the 1990 change and he is the one who summarily prefers to share the blames or for that matter the blunders which he has committed knowingly or even unknowingly during his excessively stretched stay in government.

Beginning the "understanding" reached on Mahakali river and the subsequent verdict of the nation's apex court that it was not an understanding arrived at with neighboring India but clearly a Treaty to the scandals of the dimension of the Dhamija and the Lauda Air. Add to this the unconstitutional role played very subtly by his German married daughter during his Prime Ministerial tenure(s) are the few examples which though were undemocratic and unconstitutional but the people had to accept it as totally constitutional and democratic simply because Koirala and his family members did it. The lay men had to gulp the bitter pill simply because they did it who came from a family that definitely remained instrumental in the restoration of democracy in the country. This phenomenon of the sudden cropping up of unconstitutional power centers led by some ladies supposedly close to the sitting prime ministers or even ministers in and around Congress power corridors was and is still not at all a new event in the Nepalese scheme of political things specially after the 1990 change.

If Sujata Jost-Koirala's summoning to the CIAA premises amounts to defame democracy and humiliating the 1990 constitution then former ministers like Khadka, Wagley and Gupta and many others who are yet to come under the CIAA net could also forward the same plea and the people will have to respect their utterances simply because these suspects too had in some way or the other had contributed a lot in overthrowing the erstwhile regime—a regime which was dubbed as excessively corrupt by those who at the moment were being summoned for interrogation for their alleged corrupt practices while being in power.

If Koirala is really democratic and a man truly abiding by the letter and spirit of the constitution, he should not become "nervous" for his daughter being dragged by the CIAA but instead should exhibit his courage to chide his kid and others for having said totally undemocratic and unconstitutional things against an institution which in itself was their creation.

Is it that Koirala's recent irrational utterances were the result of a sort of fear psychosis of himself along with his daughter being dragged by the anti-corruption move?

However, we ought to respect Koirala's tremendous contributions he and his family members have rendered in the name of the nation all along the past five decades or so. But should this mean that they should be placed above the laws of the land? Surely not!

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