Nepal’s "bad politics" and the Latin saying!

A Latin saying goes like this: " Quem dous perdere vult, primus dementat" whose literal meaning runs like this: "whom a god wishes to destroy, he first makes mad".

A close look at the Latin saying would apparently reveal that this fits into the political scheme of things of this country more so for our national leaders. While we don’t have any authority to accuse or dub our own national "heroes" as to have gone mad but what could be said of them is that if they continue with the posture what they have acquired of late that our leaders one fine morning would become an object of hatred amongst their own workers and cadre for it is this set which apparently remain unaware as to for what purpose they have been after all siding with their paramount leaders? One fine morning they could ask their own messiah as to why they were being pulled in Kathmandu every now and then? To make the crowd bigger? To demonstrate that they possess numerical strength which could destabilize the nation the next moment should so they desire? Or is it that the leaders wish the crowd making cadres to act like their servants? To pave or for that matter facilitate their leaders to bounce back to the corridors of power and loot the country much the same way as they did in the recent past?

Save a few hundred of the cadres that adhere to the party ideology by soul and heart, the rest apparently have come out of their illusion. The illusion is over for it is this "rest" of the cadres that have ever remained rejected and neglected by their own leaders in Kathmandu for all along these thirteen democratic years. This set of the "rest" now fully understands that the leaders have been using them for making crowds in order to show their strength and bargain with the powers-that-be in the capital district.

The fact is that the party activists in the remote villages and districts have begun questioning the rationale and relevance of such crowd making processes to their leaders. The cadres have started questioning as to what benefits the nation gets as and when such crowds are made to appear in Kathmandu?

Understandably, the answers from their respected and honored leaders is in the affirmative mode who claim that such crowds make the system solid and keep the constitution functioning.

This is not to harass the political leaders or for that matter their cadres but then what should be clear to all and sundry is that the crowds can only be a source to violence and destabilization and nothing more than that. At best the crowd pulled in from various districts can elevate the ranks of some particular leaders in the country’s political hierarchy. That’s all.

If acquiring power and rule the nation mercilessly is the sole aim and the objective of Nepali leaders then we salute this system and the leaders who claim that their agitation this time around is aimed simply to bring back the already derailed system into track. In saying so the leaders perhaps prefer to neglect the fact that it is they who forced the country to get derailed from the mainstream politics late last year. Clearly, it is the leaders who slowly but very steadily forced the monarch to use the (in)famous Article 127 and the monarch in turn apparently gave a new twist to the obtaining situation then. The fault lies firstly with the leaders and the monarch too can't escape from the blame. The irony is that the people at large have to bear the brunt of their meaningless and useless personality ego if it were so.

What puzzles us is that the leaders apparently digested the first week when the King dismissed the Deuba government on October 4 last year. How it could be that the King’s moves from October 4 till 11 assumed legality and the days after October 11 the same leaders began crying that the King’s moves had exceeded the constitutional limits? Clearly, if the King’s move were unconstitutional one then it should have been right from the very moment when the Deuba government was unceremoniously dismissed and not the otherwise.

Clearly, the political parties who pushed Deuba to the abyss expected that they would be invited by the monarch to head the next cabinet but were apparently denied. Is it that when they were denied their preferred post they began crying foul? Indications then were that the monarch had requested the political parties to forward a few competent names so that he could appoint one among the many who would run the nation. The fact is also that Chand, the incumbent prime minister, was a man of their own consensus choice.

The fact presumably is that if the agitating leaders are appointed as cabinet chief, the King’s act would assume legality the next minute and if the King does not do so would mean that the set were unconstitutional one.

What is clear to all is that the nation is being pushed to a sort of fierce confrontation. What is also clear is that unless a solution to this confrontation is not found the country will continue to feel the heat of Nepal’s "bad politics", if we could say so.

Is there some one to mediate in between the two confrontationists?

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