Once upon a time there was a scientist. One day he called up a crowd of onlookers to share one of his newer findings. In his covered palm he had a dragonfly. As he opened his palm, he ordered the dragonfly to "Fly!" The dragonfly flew into the air. He grabbed back the dragonfly, and cut one of its wings, and put the dragonfly back into his palm. Slowly he opened his palm, and ordered the dragonfly to "Fly!" The dragonfly just stayed there on his palm.
He turned to his audience and said, "This proves a dragonfly loses its hearing capacity when you cut off one of its wings."
Same thing in Nepal. Now these Pahadi Bahuns are going to tell you that they were right all along. The royalists and the Hindu supremacists were behind the Terai unrest. But now that they have thrown some royalist former ministers behind bars, the unrest is showing signs of quieting down.
The truth is the unrest is quieting down because the eight parties have finally come around to agreeing to the basic demands of the Madhesi Movement. This the eight parties should have done a long time ago, a week or more ago, and have saved lives and property.
In their singular blindness to the Madhesi plight, these Pahadi Bahuns have matched King Gyanendra himself. The Magre Kranti has produced martyrs just like the April Revolution did. Untold hundreds have been injured all across the Madhesh.
Why could these eight parties not have proactively come up with these configurations in the interim constitution on their own? And if they did not, why did they wait for so long? Why did they not respond to the movement much earlier?
That these Pahadi Bahuns in power continue to talk of the Madhesi Movement, the Maghe Kranti, with disrespect makes me suspicious. I think that means the Madhesi will have to continue the movement by other means. Once the basic demands are met, get off the streets and go to each other's homes, and organize many small gatherings, and build organization.
I urge the Madhesi Janadhikar Forum to become a political party.
The Madhesi Movement now has to focus on sending so many Madhesis into the constituent assembly that the first president of Nepal is a Madhesi. On day one of the constituent assembly, the country is going to be unanimously declared a republic. And there is going to be a need for a president. That president has to be Madhesi.
My personal favorite would be Chitralekha Yadav, but I would settle for any other Madhesi as well. Upendra Yadav himself might be a serious candidate. Maybe Hridayesh Tripathy. Maybe Rajendra Mahto.
We should work to get only Madhesis elected from the Madhesh. We should encourage the same among the Janajati. And we should build a Madhesi-Janajati coalition in the constituent assembly.
The Maoist lip service to the Janajati and Madhesi is highly misleading. The two Maoist Bahuns Prachanda and Baburam want to get Janajati and Madhesi get elected, and then they want to herd them around like goats. That would be insulting to the Madhesi and the Janajati. There is a stark need for a Janajati party.
Or the Sadbhavana (Anandi) could be that vehicle. It could expand to incorporate the Madhesi, the Janajati, the Dalit.
The best scenario would be if all parties compete to be fair to the Madhesi, and the Janajati and the Dalit. When parties compete like that, the people benefit.
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सरिता गिरी: अशान्त मधेस, नया नेपाल
Hamro Nepal Press Release: Only A Political Outlet To The Madhesi Movement
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Madhesi Movement Invites The Dalit, The Janajati, The Mahila
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Gagan Thapa On The Terai
Anand Jha: Raising Dust At SEBS
Need For A Mahila Movement
ANTA Press Release: Stop The State Terror
Stop The Shooting, Give The Speech
Feedback, NSU, USA Canada Chapter Press Release
डटे रहो
Sahana Pradhan, Sarita Giri, Chitra Lekha Yadav, Pratibha Rana
Ram Sah, Ratan Jha, Lalit Jha, Pramod Kantha: Madhesi Diaspora, Pahadi Diaspora
Why Are The Pahadis Quiet?
B. K. Rana: Carter, Palestine and Apartheid
Girija, Give A Speech Like Gyane Did In April
Stop Shooting, Give Concession Speech, Calm Down The Streets
Brikhesh Chandra Lal: Who Will Take Responsibility?
Madhesh Is Burning
शान्ित वार्ता क्या, िवजय घोषणा करो
8 Parties Need To Declare 205 Constituencies Of Equal Population
Madhesi Movement Is April Revolution Part 2
Look Who Is Talking
Madhesi Movement: Write To The Media
बराबर जनसंख्याबाला २०५ सीट
मधेश जल रही है
Girija Koirala Is A Crook
205 Constituencies Based On Equal Population, And Reserved Seats
New Jersey Madhesi Gathering: Photos
Anand Jha: Slugging It Out At SEBS
Ram Manohar Sah: Madheshi Murmurings
Mihir Thakur: Paper On Madhesh Samasya 2051
Madhesi Gathering, New Jersey
Prabasi Madhesi Are With The Madhesi Movement In Nepal
My Role In The April Revolution: The Butterfly Effect
Typhoid And Typhoid Victims
Madhesi Alert, Nepalgunj Pahadi Attack On Madhesi, Raw Email, Video Footage
िफर से कह दो एक बार इन्िकलाब
पहाडी मधेशी दंगा, मधेशी जनजाित गठबंधन, र िनर्णायक, अिहंसात्मक अन्ितम अान्दोलनको खाँचो
सद्भावना रोडम्याप
नेपालमा दमजम अान्दोलनको अावश्यकता
राजतन्त्र, बाहुनवाद र भर्ष्टाचार समाप्त पारौं
राजतन्त्र, बाहुनवाद र भर्ष्टाचार समाप्त पारौं
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