Collection of Election funds, the UML way!

By all measurements, the UML, the party led by novae-rich communists, is the cleverest of all the political parties currently having a say in the nation's politics. It is with corruption. It is not with corruption. Its ministers are corrupt but yet cleverly avoid talks on corruption. However, it sees others as corrupts. To recall, it is this party now in government that created a pandemonium for all along fifty-nine days in the parliament some years back when Prime Minister Koirala was seen by this political paraphernalia as one of the most corrupt personality in the country who, according to this party, was the main personality to have given birth to Dhamija and the Lauda Air scandals. It was the nineteenth session of the parliament that was not allowed to act for even a single minute by this party and demanded an outright resignation of the then Prime Minister Koirala.

Look the political bamboozle of this party that it cooperated with Koirala in the streets against regression for all along one year and a half hinting that Koirala no more remained a culprit of the two most infamous scandals. Yet another political fraud this party exhibited in its character when the party learnt that if some political maneuvering were conducted clandestinely, the party has had a chance to bounce back to power and it did so with proper finesse that even Prime Minister Deuba could not believe that it would be that easy for him to elevate the ranks of the communists to power. The result: Koirala, the commander of the agitation against regression was made to fall flat when it came the question of sharing the power-booties in government. Poor Koirala must have taken comfortable time to understand the inner minds of the communists, more so, of the UML whom he thought till the other day as friends who would cooperate him till the end of the never-ending struggle against what they still call a movement against regression that could be found only in and around the Ratnapark island.

For the UML, regression came to an end when it got a golden opportunity to bounce back to power. However, it did join the government with two purposes that not so many people know about the party's inner designs. Firstly it did so considering that if Deuba failed, as a rule, the UML will be told to govern the nation. The presumption was that the monarch in that eventuality will have no options left other than to invite the UML to assume power. Secondly, the party did see the probability of elections and thus decided to join the cabinet in order to amass wealth by managing some key portfolios to its ministers who in turn would manage the needed money for the elections. The idea got clicked and the UML secured some lucrative ministries, for example, the ministry of finance.

That the UML wished collection of money for the elections gets reflected from the fact that its finance minister, Bharat Mohan Adhikari, has begun maneuvering allocation of key posts to those who could guarantee hefty amounts for the party. In the process, minister Adhikari, abruptly decided to recall the custom officer posted at Nepal-China border at Tatopani for this gentleman bureaucrat straightaway denied to collect money for the party funds. The one who is being sent to that particular customs should clearly be the one who would serve the interests of both, the party and that of the minister. The forced change-of-guards at Tatopani customs has made the media sensitive to the extent that various FM Radio stations have already begun airing the internal dynamics of this event. The minister remains undeterred.

International donors and the chums of the UML would do well if they find some minutes to ask this question to the minister concerned and find out the facts. If they do so would mean that they wish to see Nepal financially sound.

Let's presume that the CIAA too is listening to this drama staged by some in the finance ministry under the benevolent leadership of the finance minister representing the UML. All that glitters is not gold. So is perhaps the UML. The officials at the finance ministry would do well if they clarify their positions before it is too late. Thanks the leaders manning the Ministry of General Administration that the said transfers of the officials have been postponed sine die.

That's all.

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