5 Questions

Maoists and Government must sit for talks

Mr. Krishna Joshi, Litterateur, Kathmandu

TGQ1: How you Mr. Joshi as an informed citizen take the recent developments in the country? Do you think the Maoists will come to the talks? Your opinions please!

Mr. Joshi: Talks must be held in between the government and the Maoists. But the ground reality, as I see it, suggests that the talks will not happen. Let’s pray for the country. That’s all.

Maoists must not enter into jungles again

Mr. Kedar Koirala, Political Analyst, Biratnagar

TGQ2: What if, Mr. Koirala, the Maoists do not come to the talks? Do you see the possibility of the Maoists going back to the jungles? Your comments please!

Mr. Koirala: The Maoists are up on changing the prevalent system of governance and the constitution. When this is the case, question does not arise that they will come to the talks in order to support the system and the constitution.

At a time when five political parties are in agitation and advocating prevalence of the status quo, what becomes important to see whether in such a situation even if the talks are held will hold meaning or not? Question also arises what of the agreements? Will they be accepted and brought into force?

However, the demand of the time is that both the Maoists and the Government must ensure peace in the country by any means. The people wish peace.

If the Maoists stick to their commitments made in the past then let me hope that they will not enter into the jungles again.

The people at large wish a solution through talks.

Government and Maoists must have common understanding

Rajiv jain, Biratnagar ( currently studying in Delhi)

TGQ3: Government-Maoists talks appears blocked. In this situation you Mr. Rajiv what suggestion you wish to forward to both, the government and the Maoists? Your comments please.

Mr. Rajiv Jain: The negotiation between the government and the Maoists have come to a halt which is a very sad situation for all the peaceloving Nepali people. The development and the growth of the country has been sidelined due to the existing political instability. The ultimate sufferer is the general public.

The economy which went as down as 0.5% last year speaks volume about the state of the country’s economy.

The government and the Maoists should come to an understanding and the peace talks should come to a healthy conclusion which is the ultimate and most important necessity of today. Until and unless there is favorable climate, stability and peace, the government can’t also think of development. The maximum energy and time of the State is being wasted in planning an action for creating a peaceful environment.

So I think both the parties concerned should give a serious thought to this matter and resolve the crisis through common understanding.

We are Nepali till Nepal remains as a nation-state

Mr. T. N. Ghimire, Journalist, Kathmandu

TGQ4: The national politics is in a very bad shape at the moment. What you Mr. Ghimire suggest the government and the Maoists at this stage? Your remarks please!

Mr. Ghimire: Think of the nation but not about yourself and your party. Do not long for the prime ministerial chair, work for the betterment of the country’s real issues and devise ways that go in the larger interest of the majority of the population.

Unfortunately, no body worked for the practical solution to the existing problems, which in my opinion is the need of the day. All wish peace but how peace is obtained no body knows.

We must abandon pinpointing others mistakes but instead go in for positive solutions even if it were in an individual way.

Don’t complicate the problems. The King and the people in general including the Maoists all must converge in the larger interest of the nation. We are Nepali till Nepal remains as a nation-state.

Talks must resume in the interest of the Nation

-Mr. Suman Kharel, Senior Accountant, Everest Casino, Kathmandu

TGQ5: What you Mr. Kharel think of the current deadlock seen in government-Maoists talks? Your opinions please!

Mr. Kharel: Resumption of the talks is the need of the hour. The nation is safe and sound if the talks resume. There should be equal attachment for the talks on both the sides. The civil society has ever remained in favor of the talks but unfortunately talks are being delayed. The villain is neither the civil society nor the lay men but, in my view, the villains were the two concerned parties who have been abandoning the resumption of the talks on one pretext or the other. What efforts were made to make aware the lay men in common language by the two sides for the conflict resolution. Both talked in highly political languages that originated in the five star hotels which the population could not understand. The politicians on both the sides concluded that the lay men understood the language that had its origin in five star complexes. The fact is that the population still remains under the tree in the villages. Since the two failed to assure the national population, hence the deadlock.

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