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Deteriorating Nepal, Black Period 2005-2009

By Dirgha Raj Prasai

The Nepalese democratic exercise faced a black period between 2005-2009. During this time, Nepalese people tolerated the worst political practices made by corrupt leaders. The nation achieved the ultimate height of lawlessness, theft, robbery, ransom and murders.

Corruption is out of control and nobody is responsible for controlling it. Corruption is institutionalized. Several constitutional authorities including the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) and the administrative mechanism have been paralyzed.

The security forces themselves remain demoralized. Nobody can trust the culprit leaders. Though freedom of speech is one of the basic pillars of democracy, no one is free to speak and write critically in the true sense.

Actual experience is the proof that reveals all the political leaders invested their time and energy only for power and to accumulate money, land, homes and expensive vehicles. Their amassed properties in the name of democracy are hidden in different banks, lands, big houses and business. They are beyond the reality that the people might be fooled for a moment with the political dishonesty, but not for ever. Democracy has been abused as a ladder for power by the anti-nationalist political leaders.

Nepal is passing through the most dangerous time in it's history. Government has two mechanisms: political and administrative, which ultimately manage and deliver service to the public by mobilizing the resources of the country. The trained human resources in the administration are becoming defunct.

In Nepal, the government is not accountable to the people. Nepalese people are divided in many groups due to communal slogans and ethic-based federalism encouraged by the corrupt leaders of Nepal. 'Unity among the diversities' is the theme of Nepalese nationalism. People of different geographical regions in the plains, hills and high mountains have their respective cultural identities which reflect the united nationality of Nepal.

The history of human civilization is the history of co-existence and co-operation. But, what is happening in Nepal? Can Nepal achieve the peace, unity and prosperity with such destructive and criminal activities?

It is a matter of grief that a group of Nepalese community started killing others. Is it liberation and democracy? Nepal has been losing and abolishing its political, cultural and sovereign existence since 2005. Over the last three years, the Nepalese people are being divided ethnically. The Maoist model of federalism (agenda of India), which is based on ethnicity, can disintegrate unity. The racial federalism can never develop the norms of democracy but creates racial conflicts.

Why is every community demanding an autonomous state of their own? The demand for the autonomous states will be a suicidal agenda for all. The chaos, instability and insecurity are institutionalized. Isn't it happening with pressure from foreigners?

In 1950 AD, King Tribhuvan was forced to speak of conducting CA elections in Delhi with Indian interests. But later on, as the conspiracy of India was understood, King Tribhuvan and the Nepalese patriots denied CA elections. After 58 years, Indians succeeded in conducting the CA election. And now, they are being active to capture political power by their elected and selected CA members who are puppets of the parties and foreigners.

Anti-nationalistic and dictatorial elements like former PMs Girija Prasad, Maoist leader Prachandra and PM Madhab Nepal, the puppets of India themselves invited the intervention of India. The Delhi based 12 points' unholy alliance-2005 has been hampering Nepalese unity and prestige of Nepal. After the resignation of the Maoist PM Prachanda, the most opportunist puppet of India, Madhab Nepal of UML has been chosen as PM, at the urging of foreigners. The power struggles inside the Congress, UML, Madhesis do nothing to strengthen the country and democracy.

Nepal has always shown goodwill towards India. But the Indian intention is quite suspicious no matter the co-operation between two countries. India professes one thing and acts contrary to it which always gives room to suspect its role.

Nepal shares 1,880 kilometres of open border with India. India has over the years built numerous structures in the vicinity of no man's land which is against international norms. The activities are adversely affecting the Nepali people living in those areas. Thousands of hectares of fertile Nepali land have been submersed and waterlogged by the embankments. We need to maintain friendly relations with India due to our similar cultural and religious traditions. But sadly, the Indian government is going to destabilize Nepal through its Nepalese culprit party leaders who are pushing the country into disarray.

Political analyst I.K. Pradhan says - "Culprit party leaders involved in running the affairs of the country, remain dumbfounded, seeing the broad day-light expansion tic aggression into one's own soil. They are engrossed, in this political gamble, rather than being intimately concerned with what the people and country expect from them? The pills of this bitter truth must be swallowed by each and all. If state, governance, parties, leaderships fail to put things right, there can be no alternative than for the people themselves, to decisively arise in total unity, against the persistency of decaying politics of Nepal, and meet the onslaughts of undesirable, destabilizing, ravaging against the sanctity of the national soil and the country and people's independence."

In this context, Kalyan Dev Bhattarai, a Nepalese scholar, aggressively says: "The political activities of these so-called leaders of the country is taking the country to that point where the Nepalese people will have no choice but to be forced to start revolution where the tire will be not burnt in every corner of the country but these so-called leaders will be burnt alive.' (www.nepalhorizons.com) Because people are sensitive enough to distinguish the cow and the donkey. 'Crows are never the white for washing'.

The Nepalese people are reluctant to live under the shadow of guns, rather they want peace. They want relief from the drudge of their lives. UNMIN have been very irresponsible and they, following the hints of India, are bent on making this country a 'failed state'. It is a matter of deep regret that the UN representatives, American ambassador, European Union an others have made a great mistake in supporting the republic, secularism, interim constitution, so-called interim parliament and the council of minister.

Opposing attempts to abolish monarchy that has remained the basis of this country assessment of the geography, geo-political situation and ethnic sensitivity for so long and to try to establish a federal state based on ethnicity indicates the bad omen of the break-up of the country.

The despotic leaders and Nepali Congress, UML and the Maoist party have no right to sink this country. Nepal is a land-locked country between the two power giants - China and India and is a multi-ethnic nation where no group is in majority, but the Nepalese monarchy can get along with people of all regions and ethnic backgrounds irrespective of their culture, language, political affiliations and caste. Therefore, there is no alternate that all the nationalist forces including the King should protect the country.