Why Laymen don’t believe their own leaders now?

It is strongly believed that even a shameless person, if it could be so, possesses a little amount of shame in his personality which allows him or her to join the society wherein he or she lives in.

So let’s now agree that we have a society wherein a minimum of shame every person possesses in himself or herself. It is with this assumption I wish to continue to pen a few of my observations as to whether our leaders possess that or were devoid of that.

The five party agitation is, I am told, already entering into its fifth phase of agitation against the establishment more so against the King.

The Big-5 talks of restoration of democratic order in the country. I read in daily newspapers that people around Nepal in many places do not get drinking water. Or even if they get, it is not potable one. Our national heroes remain averse to this.

I read in the papers that the leaders manning the agitation talk of cutting down the size of the King. I also concurrently read that several schools in the country have been forced to close their classrooms for fear of a sort of contagious disease that has taken into its grip several districts of the nation. Parents appear afraid thinking of the continuation of the lives of their kids. The leaders are all in Kathmandu trying to confront the King for reasons unknown to us.

I read in the newspapers that girl-trafficking is again on the rise. In the process, hundreds of Nepali girls are being sold out to Indian brothels. My leaders apparently give an impression that it were a non-issue.

I am told that India has built a dam neglecting the requests of the Nepali government which if brought into operation is sure to inundate several hundred villages in the mid-west region. Our national heroes do not find time to think on such matters apparently fearing that any retaliation to those Indian overtures might damage their future political prospects in Nepal.

We listen that India this time around worked very hard in managing the installation of the incumbent prime minister here for purposes unknown to us. My leaders know this phenomenon but then yet prefer not to antagonize India for reasons best known to the agitationists only.

The list could go long.

Now it is up to my readers to ascertain as to whom the Nepali leaders were? For whom they have been working? What political benefits they procure in serving others’ political interests by right being in this country?

I do believe that the agitation is not on the wrong footing. What has gone wrong is that the people now don’t believe their own leaders even if they come out to the streets for a significant cause. Why it is so? The answer is: Their past performances which include, malgovernance, misinterpretation of the constitution while being in power, committing acts of corruption of the Lauda, Chase air and China South West dimension and the likes.

Is it that the people have become shameless that they don’t support their own once preferred leaders? Or the leaders have become shameless who don’t care the issues that the lay men confront at their own village and the grass root society levels?

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