Political thugs!

The beauty of a democratic system is in the political parties not believing in each other. The beauty also lies in the major political actors not trusting the other and behaving in a manner as if they were born enemies. In the process when enough becomes enough, the laymen too begin neglecting and rejecting one of the strong pillars of a democratic system-the political parties. This is exactly what has been happening in our country. The people albeit wholeheartedly supported the system and the leaders of the political parties with a hope that these political messiah would try their best in undoing the ailments of the country that had gripped it for all along the past thirty years or so. However, things slowly began becoming clear that the actors, the main actors of the Nepali political spectrum, have been causing more damage to the system than any other force would have done so.

The fact is that by this time the political parties must have clearly understood as to why the two year long political agitation against what has been described as regression remains in limbo to the extent that the agitation itself got punctured the day one of the major constituent of the said agitation joined the government. The fact is also that the UML's decision made the agitation a farce and the leaders of the already fractured agitation have had to devise yet another mechanism to save their face. An brilliant idea was discovered which provided an impression to the people that the agitation have got to be "decentralized" so that arouse feelings in the brains of the people living outside the valley. It would have been taken as a wise move had these political thugs when in power concentrated their efforts in decentralizing their power to the districts and the villages in order to give a facelift to the ever marginalized and the oppressed lots there.

The fact is that the people understand that the King has played his constitutional cards well but then yet they have neither talked against the King's moves nor have openheartedly subscribed to his October actions. Why the people, read the majority of the population who is by and large non-partisan, did not listen to the fervent pleas of the parties now in agitation and why the same lot did not criticize the King for his 2002 moves?

It is only because the people were fed up with the political vandalism that their "representatives" exhibited while in power or else the people would certainly have come to the rescue of their own leaders who have made it a business to concentrate in Ratnapark and disperse from Ratnapark and that too each day since three months or so in the name of fighting "regression".

People demand justice. They demand food and shelter. They long for peace which is a rare commodity now. Above all they demand security of their lives. The people are in need of intelligent and dedicated leaders. The people expect from their leaders a sense of togetherness at times of crisis. The fact is that two thirds of the country's landmass is under water. The fact is also that some districts in the West urgently needed rice and salt. The fact is that none of our leaders so far have expressed their concerns on this devastating news. Isn't it a political thuggery? Perhaps yes.

Making trips in Choppers in the affected areas and assuring the affected ones will not console the hearts of those who have been stripped of their wealth, properties and the lives either by the deluge or through the kind courtesy of the insurgency.

We appeal the government, if we have one, to come to the rescue of its own citizens now in distress.

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