Listening to Comrade Woli’s sad story

Clearly, the UML is in a deep crisis. The crisis if not handled with care might catapult in a major cataclysm which neither Madhav Nepal, more or less the authoritarian leader of the party, nor his what his followers prefer to call the majority camp of the UML could block the party from a perpendicular split of the sort what the party has already witnessed in the not so distant past. If what Khadga Prasad Woli, a declared detractor of the party supremo, Madhav Nepal, told to the Channel Nepal Television, Saturday evening were any warning then what could be candidly said is that the party which claims to be a united force is on the verge of a vertical split and that should Madhav Nepal continue to display his, muscles, the party would land in a bottomless pit from where the return of which would be simply hard if not impossible. The party can’t afford yet another rupture simply because some of its top hats have begun considering themselves as more Catholic than the Pope.

K.P.Woli talking to the Channel Nepal interview slot made it amply clear, though in a very polite and decent way as the communist party would demand from him, that Madhav Nepal and his ring had already begun sidelining those who happened to be in the minority camp patently led by Woli and Bamdev Gautam. The sorry tale of the Janakpur convention that freshly concluded as was described by Comrade Woli during the course of the intercourse does hint that the majority camp in the UML was all set to press Monsieur Woli and Bamdev so hard that the two acknowledged detractors of the party’s boss could themselves one fine morning declare that they had quit the party for good and that personalities like them had no room in the part presided by Madhav Nepal and his soi disant followers.

K.P.Woli’s admittance that he would fight against the "landlordism" that existed in the party’s proceedings till the end and that he will do it by being inside the party itself but that should not mean that he would be the cause for yet another split. In saying so Woli amply hints that he would demand justice at the first place for his views from the party’s governing body and if he is denied the required justice and a change in the functioning of the party as it is being run is not brought into effect then that might prompt him to consider the other alternatives. In saying so he then seemingly means that he too would be forced to do what would not be in the larger interest of the unity of the party.

If one were to give credence to what the senior UML leader divulged during the course of the said interview what comes to the fore is that Woli was summarily avoided or was made to consider himself an outcaste in the scheme of UML things in and around Janakpur convention that lifted the ranks of Madhav Nepal in a overwhelming manner. His voices were subdued or even deliberately dishonored by what Woli prefers to call the so-called camp of the majority in the UML; and that the majority camp even dared to prepare a list that was distributed among its undisguised cadres with clear instructions to manage a defeat of this or that which apparently hinted that the majority camp did not wish that even a single candidate from Woli’s that is minority’s camp could get elected at the meaningful posts of the party. This apparently was done by the majority to keep the losing side in always a minority in order to bulldoze the party’s proceedings after winning the elections.

Woli has however, made it clear that he and his camp would henceforth not exhibit their modesty and that they would anneal their stands in order to bring the party back to its track from where it has already deflected and if left ignored might endanger even the existence of the party.

Summing up it all, what could be guessed in advance is that: UML is in a deep crisis; that the UML is run not by the party’s stipulated decree but by the whims of those who claim to have majority in the party; and that the UML could see a very unpleasant zenithal split if personalities like Woli and Bamdev and their followers were ignored in a manner mentioned above at time of the party’s Janakpur convention.

The hole in the UML party if not stitched in time might bring grave consequences and that too at a time when the Gang of Four, including the UML, have already decided to wage a sort of agitation in order to bring back democracy which they wish to bring back from the Nepali Royal Palace to its original place, the Singh Durbar. A house divided so badly and a house sans Woli, Gautam and may be R.K.Mainali perhaps can’t support the rally against the King called by the Gang of Four albeit the UML included.

A personality who can not tame his own colleagues and a celebrity (?) who poses to be an incarnation of Hitler and behaves his own party-men not befitting to what they deserve will surely stumble.

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