Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Sack the redundant ministers!

The speed of the government headed by the King reminds one of the stories that pertain to the race of the hare and the tortoise. The people who have had expected that the King's government would be bit different than the others in terms of deliverance of goods have come all to their senses and begun to think that any government whether it be of Koirala, Deuba or for that matter Madhav Nepal, remain all the same.

This prompts the people to think that the Chair that the men in government occupy must have some magnetic effects which doesn't allow them to come out of the chair and look into the needs of the people and in the process the men outside the government get disturbed and begin thinking any thing under the sun.

Is it the bureaucratic or the clumsy laws of the land that cause this to happen? Or is it the managerial defects or for that matter unwillingness on the part of the ministers that delay the deliverance? Answers to these million dollar questions must have got to be found or else the already confused people could time permitting tilt their favor of those who were hell bent on proving that even the King's government were no better than theirs own in the past. If they can prove this would mean that the fate of Nepal and her people will remain as it is under any system or any particular mode of governance. This would be chaotic if that does happen. The fact is that the government of the present day is itself facilitating its own collapse thus providing golden opportunities to the opposition already in the streets. The opposition is in search of, which is only but natural, mistakes of the government so that they can propagate it out of proportion in order to win the hearts of the people, which it has so far not.

We can understand that any system of governance is tied with the chain of rules and regulations. That is fine. However, at certain critical times the government at the center can take decisions that have a great positive impact on the lives of the people. The government today is certainly of a different nature and type, which could risk adventures that have bearing on the life-styles of the people and thus could bag sympathies that she direly needs at least to defend itself from the onslaught of the opposition. The fact is that the government neither has courage nor a will to go in for a sort of dramatic change that were in favor of the nation and her teeming millions. The government is simply spending time and energy in deriding at the opposition, which is not its job. Let the political parties do their job that is their right to a greater extent. The government's job is to proceed with strong determination and bring into effects measures that are in the larger interest of the people. The government must not forget that it is the people that count much in any system. When there is a tussle on how and who should win the hearts of the people, the government if it wanted a longer tenure in Singh Durbar must devise mechanisms in order to make the people happy. The fact is that the people are becoming angry with the government that is under the command of His majesty the King himself.

The set that is reigning in Singh Durbar is slowly but very steadily creating problems for the personality who has entrusted them the onerous task of running the government. Ultimately, it is the King himself who has to shoulder all the criticisms if the government under him failed on any count. The men in the government will be not taken to task but the King for the failures, if any. This is very dangerous. Visibly, the men in the government appear hell bent on killing the prestige of the King by their snails pace so far as the matters of performance and deliverance are concerned.

Attending five star receptions and making eloquent speeches in order to seduce the people will not do. The ministers must not attend programs that are considered to be irrelevant and redundant. Attending those would mean that the ministers themselves are hell bent on bringing about an untimely collapse of the King's government wherein the King's prestige itself is attached with in an inexplicable manner.

The King is hereby appealed to sack those ministers whom he considers or is told to have already become a burden to the state. The time is to act but not engage in recreational sessions. That's all.