Is CIAA in deep slumber?

The bureaucracy isn’t functioning. The local bodies remain absent with no signs of going to the elections. The parliamentary elections appear simply remote. The political parties are up on the streets. The civil society and the informed citizenry too appear less interested in the affairs of the state. The lay men don’t understand as to what has been happening in the nation and thus remain more than confused and in the process they have begin developing a sort of allergic to the political parties whose effect is being felt in the system. The academia is politically divided. So are the students. The sum total is that Nepal is heading towards being dubbed as a "failed state".

The irony is also that the guardian of the nation, the constitutional monarch, too appears less interested in unknotting the politics of the nation. The result is that Nepal as a nation-state is not only losing its credibility among the comity of the nations but also in more ways than one losing its legitimacy, politically speaking.

Thanks that even in such circumstances, the nation is creeping. Thanks the Almighty that the nation is surviving though visibly it is counting its last breath.

Now the question arises: Who is the real villain in having pushed the country to this chaotic state? The lay men who never had a share or participation in the affairs of the system now in place? Were it the lay men who pushed the country to go in on for the use of the most (in) famous Article 127? Was it the monarch who pushed the nation to such a situation that forced the then Deuba government to press the King to use the Article 127? Did the monarch did this on his own? Or is it the political paraphernalia including the Deuba establishment that decided internally that since the elections could not be held on the stipulated dates and hence the establishment led by Deuba approached the King to use article 127? Isn’t it that the monarch upon equipped with the Article 127 too apparently wished to prolong his rule? Isn’t it that the King possesses still a strong desire to rule the country by asserting some of his lost powers?

And by and by, isn’t’ it the Nepali media too which remained divided on political lines and favored the King with the rest and vice versa?

And isn’t it a hard fact and an established reality that the political animals who brought this nation to this state are hell bent on crying foul? The underlying agenda is to bounce back to power and erase their names from the list of those who appear very close to the CIAA net. The outcry in the name of democracy is nothing but their internal cry or say fear of being nabbed by the anti-corruption authorities and hence the corrupts of the recent past have all accumulated in Ratna Park to stage yet another drama and that too in the name of democracy- a system they squeezed most while in power.

All in all, what the people at the grassroots level would wish to see is the corrupts now engaged in a sort of political drama called Relay-Hunger Strike be put behind the bars at the earliest. The sole aim of the men engaged in the above mentioned naked drama is to provide a democratic shield to their sins committed in the recent past. No body knows why the CIAA is trembling and not nabbing the declared corrupts from the political paraphernalia now engaged in agitation. However, this should not mean and does not mean that all were rotten eggs in the agitation. We know some in the crowd were true souls who could be trusted on what they preach. But how come a man in the crowd who possesses a flat in Australia and one Gas station in the United States be allowed to talk foul against the government of the day? The person who had no shoes during the time of the erstwhile regime and now is a billionaire be trusted by the congress to lead or be among the crowd of the Relay Hunger Strike that the party claims to have been waged to bring the derailed system in its original leak? The fate of an agitation that is led by such men as the proprietor of Gas station and the likes could be any body’s guess. It is time that Koirala and Madhav Nepal behave in a political manner that is demanded of them. The naked drama has got to be stopped.

Stop terrorizing education sector

The tragedy is that the students are spoiling the very career and future of their own friends at the schools. We understand that a lot many schools in the country have been squeezing money from the poor parents who in turn oblige to the school administrations financial dictates hoping that their siblings would later emerge as a brilliant personality. There is, no doubt truth in this thinking. However, equally true is that not all studying in the boarding english schools have done well. Conversely, some students belonging to poverty stricken parents have done more well than their friends in the boarding schools. The fact is also that the creation or for that matter the mushrooming growth of the boarding schools in the country has created a big-divide among the students itself thereby imparting a sense of being rich and affordable and poor and unaffordable class in the society. This in essence isa killing the country from within.

To come back to the point, the students who appear hell bent on bringing down the scale of the tuition fees so that education becomes available for all the sectors of the society is in itself not a bad idea indeed. The motive behind the agitation is not at all incorrect. However, the manner the students have been behaving with the men in the school administration using coercive measures and applying uncivilized methods is somewhat disgusting and hence unacceptable as well.

There are certain decorum and established polite methods to arrive at a solution to such problems which the students in the agitation appear to have not taken into account which is what is damaging their own demands. The students who have been denied education due to the agitation in the education industry will time permitting curse their own friends for having done damage to their regular studies. It is just imaginable as to how the parents and the guardians of the students denied education will react to such unacceptable overtures, which has definitely a political color. By the same token it is well understood as to how the lay men could have taken up the students agitation that has already created panic in the education sector.

It is time that the leaders of the agitation understand the gravity of the situation and come to terms with the school administration and the government so that a viable and plausible solution to the current imbroglio is found. Terrorizing the students and their guardians and the men in the school will boomerang.

It is also time that the managers of the boarding schools too stop excessive commercialization of education and let the poor also enjoy their so-called "quality" education".

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