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Act fast or resign!
Our thought has been drawn towards the languid speed of the government currently headed by the monarch himself. While we have nothing to say about the monarch, however, we can't but help to appeal the head of the state to take the implementation part seriously as it is not the king but his men in the government who have to be active and energetic and remain dedicated towards the fulfillment of the instructions and the directives forwarded to the government by the monarch on the very day he took over the charge of the nation. The hidden fact is that people will ultimately make the king responsible for a fault not of his own but of the men he has appointed to run the administration.
Nevertheless, we do not question the integrity of the men housed in the current ministry, however, the fact is also that the laymen who have had a longing that the major shakeup of a different political nature as it is in essence in Singh Durbar would do some thing very touchable and substantial in order to mitigate their untold sufferings have become wary looking at the pace of the Royal government in taking up their matter. The fact is that the men handling the affairs at Sigh Durbar secretariat consume much of their time and energy in making lectures and speeches and in attending five star cocktail receptions, which in effect they all should have avoided summarily. But they have not and hopefully they will not as is the Nepali habit. This is a fact. Slowly but steadily the people at the lower rung of the society have begun talking that the chairs of Singh Durbar have had some hidden faults which made the men occupying the chair redundant and ineffective. This has come true in this case as well. No wonder. The Chairs should be penalized? Isn't' it?
Now coming more closer, the fact is that the men assigned with the charge of government must deliver if they were loyal and dedicated to the King's move or else it would be in the fitness of things that they tender their resignations at the earliest and allow the monarch to do the needful in a constitutional manner. Their snail pace has already begun tarnishing the very image of the crown, which is what must be avoided at any cost. The crown must listen to the people's whispers.
The ground reality is that since the King took over the charge of the nation in his own shoulders, a mere two rupees cut in the existing price of the kerosene oil has been brought into effect. The people then took it as a sign of the things to happen. However, it is already three months plus that nothing significant has been declared compelling the people to conclude that those who sit in the executive secretariat can ditch even the head of the state by their incompetence and inefficient behavior. This should stop at the earliest. The men in the government must act fast and deliver. It is this delivery part that has become miserable and this is the part the people would want from any government, be it the Deuba, or Koirala or even the King's government. If the deliverance of goods is appropriate then people will have less time in discussing or arguing whether it were done by a government led by Deuba or Koirala or even by Dr. Giri or Mr. Bista. People first need fast delivery that took care of their sufferings and only then later they have time left to mull over which sort of governance in place at a particular juncture of nation's history provided them with solace that they badly needed. More specially, people expect much from a government that is entrusted with full executive powers and that is headed by none less than the king himself. The fact is that this government is no different than the previous ones in more ways than one except that the current set up enjoys the full blessings of the monarch.
We fully subscribe to the views expressed by a Miami Professor of Nepali origin, Janardan Subedi, who made it abundantly clear in a television program aired just the other day that the men in the government were hell bent on killing the very prestige and the image of the monarch by their uninspiring activities that remained far from people's skyrocketing aspirations in the changed political cxontext. The fact is also that though the people understand the compulsions and the questions of the constitutional legalities of the moves to be taken in favor of the people, however, the people also know that when the King is himself at the helm of affairs of the state and appears determined in mitigating the sufferings of the down trodden class of the society then in such circumstances the government must devise mechanisms that allow the executive to act fast and without any delay.
If the people do not get it now, will perhaps never get in the future.
It is up to the men in the government to understand the people's aspirations and deliver fast. Failing to do so would mean that the men now in Singh Durbar too were in no way different than those who used to occupy the chairs in the secretariat. The message is clear.
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