Why it so happens ?

I can’t dare to dismiss outrightly the timing and the usefulness of the agitation currently waged by the five parliamentary parties outrightly for the leaders who have sponsored the agitation must have some thing very special in their minds. Since they all belong to the national political mainstream and thus must have xalculated the timing and the usefulness of the said agitation. More over, in a democratic system one is free to ventilate his or her feelings through establishmed methods which definitely include demonstrations and making fiery speeches against what they consider to have blocked the democratic process.

I have nothing to go against their calls. They have done so or were doing so exercising their democratic rights which is not unusual in a democracy.

However. I am concerned about the students belonging to different unions who have been injured during the skirmishes with the State security apparatus. I believe the students who have been injured hail from remote districts and whose guardians were not in Kathmandu.

I repeat, I have never heard the children or for that matter the students from the political leaders’ family getting serious injuries. This doesnot mean that the police should hit them. It’s not that. But my question remains as to why the national leaders do not send their own family members, who are students, to the forefront and face the music. Why it is all the time the students who don’t have their residence in Kathmandu and why only those who don’t have their guardians in the valley are sent to the battle ground ?

My heart goes to those family members who have sent their kids to Kathmandu to get quality education but instead their offsprings are being hit by policemen for understandable reasons.

Again, I don’t want to say that the student shouldn’t play politics. They must play the game but only after completing their education. After all, it is these students who will have to steer the nation tomorrow. We bank on their shoulders. Not only we but the countries all over the world does this with a hope that some time later the students will steer the nation in a manner that benefits the entire society and finally the nation.

I get equally disturbed when I learn that the policemen begin showing their muscle strength indiscriminately on the innocent students who have come out against the government in a peaceful manner. I can’t understand the mind of the policemen for what I have observed many a times, I was myself a student decades and decades ago, that the moment the police men face the students they begin hitting the latter even if the students haven’t committed any crime that demanded lathicharge ! Why it is so ? Can’t the policemen restrain themselves ? Can’t they control their temptations for a while ? Don’t they think that the students could be their own family members or for that matter from the same society who need to be treated in a manner that they deserve ?

Conclusion : I have failed to understand this phenomenon in my own country.

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