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Insensitive Shital Nivas diplomat ?
Our attention has been drawn towards a declaration made by a Nepal's Foreign Ministry high placed official on a very susceptible question posed to him by a television interviewer last week.
The answers provided by this particular foreign ministry official is not only highly objectionable but also makes it abundantly clear as to how our diplomats summarily dismiss Nepal's genuine cases on fragile grounds. The Nepali diplomat not only made offensive answers but also hinted that when it came to the crunch, our luxury-oriented diplomats more often than not would choose to hush-hush the matter for good apparently, sorry to say, for certain invisible material gains or out of ineffectiveness while dealing with contemporary diplomats of other countries on the negotiating table.
To come to the point, the NTV last week aired a comparatively popular program entitled, Public Discussion, in which the interviewer asked the foreign ministry diplomat that what Nepali officials have been doing when neighboring Indians in the far western region have had in the recent years encroached upon hundreds and hundreds of hectares of Nepali land and incorporated into their territories. This was a genuine question that demanded prompt and positive answers from the said diplomat. However, that was not forth coming. The man who had to answer appeared bit panicky and indicated that that particular question was too heavy for him to answer for a variety of unexplained reasons which we only can guess but not confirm.
The interviewer was backed by the men of the western region who have seen, observed and remained a witness to the Indian intrusion and that too in broad day light and who now demand from their government in Kathmandu to take up the matter seriously and regain the lost lands from the one which more often than not has made it a habit to take hold of others' territories on one pretext or the other. Not for nothing India was taken for granted as an expansionist country by the Nepali communists in the recent past but who for a variety of reasons have not uttered in the recent years as to how they take India now when the same country is constantly engaged in grabbing our lands here and there. The UML and the Maoists both must answer this question.
Now let's look at the most despicable lines what the Nepali diplomat said to the NTV man The listeners upon paying attention to the diplomat's response appeared bit ashamed much the same way as others stuck to the idiot box would have in all likelihood felt.
" We the Nepalese more often than not become too much emotional and magnify the matter out of proportion. We at the ministry have taken up the matter and we will deal with it in the impending days". Look at the word so disgustingly chosen by that particular diplomat who intends to indicate that we the Nepalese simply take up the matters seriously without being pragmatic. He further means, implied indeed, to say that emotions do not count when it comes to the bilateral ties and that one has to become rational in defending one's causes. In sum, this duffer diplomat teaches which were the matters where one should become sentimental and emotional and where to be not.
While we don't suspect his Nepali credentials, as we don't possess that right in strict sense of the term to question his love and honor for his own motherland, however, this particular diplomat appears more interested in allowing India to encroach upon our lands and he also by implication suggests the Nepalese population not to raise the trifling matters. In the same vein he goes on to teach us that India must not be irritated on such small counts. However, what this high placed diplomat forgets that whatever we have been losing each minute should be a concern to each and every Nepali including this high flying diplomat as he happens to be a Nepali as well. Surprising is the fact that while saying so this diplomat appears to have become utterly insensitive to his duties and responsibilities which is what he should not have said so. Indeed, Nepali population must become emotional as and when their lands are being encroached by alien forces. The diplomat appears to have some soft corner for the forces that encroach upon our lands through the use of force. This could be his compulsion for his own reasons. However, as Nepalese we possess the right to ask him as to what he intends when he says that we the Nepalese were too much emotional than what was needed. The diplomat must answer win which cases we should become emotional and in which we must not? Should we not become emotional when our sisters and mothers are being raped? Should we keep silence when some one from alien country blatantly enters into our land and moves the demarcation pillars at his or her will? How could the men of the western region control their emotions when they see that their territories are being shifted deep into their territories overnight, which is contracting our landmass every day?
Without malice to this diplomat and having no ill thinking towards this diplomat we appeal him not to repeat the words that are unbecoming of a Nepali diplomat seated in a very high post. He should be very careful in the selection of words while talking to the electronic media as it might damage his entire reputation and nationalist credentials which he has earned by the dint of his hard labor. Let's hope that a nepali seated at the foreign ministry does not degrade his own brethren and by implication his own motherland which should be hopefully near and dear to him as well much the same manner as others have for their motherland.
The message should be clear to this diplomat. We wish him all the best in his future career.
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