Wisdom would demand UML’s clarifications

Last week I was in my hometown, Biratnagar.

Nothing exclusive I could bring for my valued readers from there except some mind-boggling impressions. I hope you all will enjoy it.

It was the day when the entire Christian community in Nepal and abroad celebrate it according to one’s capacities. The Christmas day December 25th.

It so happened that I had some job to be accomplished at the Biratnagar Sub-Municipality. I was there some where around 12.25, mid-day. To my utter surprise and perhaps to many those who had jobs there, were taken aback when we all could see the agitating five parties with their some fifty-followers in total were making lectures on what is being defined as an act of regression.

The junior leaders of practically all the agitating political parties turn by turn ventilating their expressions albeit suiting to their political affiliations. The security men, as is usual, had cordoned off the entire area in order to save the agitators or for that matter the passersby as well.

Fortunately enough, I had to listen to the remarks being made by the firebrand UML cadre on that occasion. He spoke every thing under the sun against the government and albeit against the monarch as well.

What made me to laugh listening to his fiery lecture was that this particular leader belonging to the UML was telling his audience that the incumbent government had sold out or was about to sell out all of the country’s resources to neighboring country. He provided a long list of the "items" that Thapa was all set to handover Nepali resources to India.

Poor junior leader of the UML either did not know or posed not to know that it was primarily his own party, the UML, that rejoiced the Mahakali treaty ratification in the parliament long time back. The junior leader perhaps forgot that his party, which was founded on the anti_India premise, had become now a party "most friendly" to India. The speaker perhaps thought it opportune not to reveal that his party, the UML, split on the count of the Mahakali treaty ratification. In effect, Bamdev and C.P.Mainali and a host of others made the party to split alleging that the party since had committed a grave crime to the nation and hence it would be fair to leave those who apparently voted for the ratification of the said treaty and thus favored India at the cost of Nepal.

The leader also thought it to be good not to mention that the then leader of the UML, Man Mohan Adhikari had vowed that if his party voted in favor of the treaty he would resign. However, he did not resign for unexplainable reasons.

The UML leader did not said that why his party now does not talk of Kalapani and the border encroachment by the other side. The junior comrade also felt it unnecessary to tell his audience that his party now prefers not to annoy the other side for unknown political gains. He also did not tell his audience as to why his supreme leader more often than not makes trips to the other side of the border and so many things he did not tell his august audience.

The fact is that the UML is either be-fooling its cadres down at the grassroots level or the men at the very grassroots pretend not to know the internal dynamics of the party in question. The fact is also that one can fool the other for one time. However, to fool others for all time to come is perhaps against the law of the nature.

It is time that the UML clarifies its real stands on so many issues such as the ones mentioned in this write-up.

The other leaders were simply vocal against the King.

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