Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Rename The Mahendra Highway After BP Koirala



This has to be done now. This decision has to be immediate. It is as urgent as was the decision to rename the Nepal government, and the state army. This east west highway is the backbone of the national economy. It can not stay named after someone who imposed half a century of darkness upon the country. It is a shame this highway has not been renamed yet.

I struggled with the BP name. I thought perhaps it might come across as if the Nepali Congress will benefit from it in a partisan manner. But I no longer feel that. I think BP belongs to the nation at large, and not just to one political party. BP Koirala shines as a name in the democracy struggle of the Global South at large.

Phone Talk With Girija Koirala: Meeting History Itself
BP Koirala: Hoping Against Hope At Sundarijal

Mahendra is a villain, plain and simple. The Panchayati propaganda has to go down the drain. Nepal's history has to be rewritten in its proper democratic light.

BP Koirala was for a republic, he was for land reform. Interestingly that was also true for Madan Bhandari. BP Koirala's later move towards a constitutional monarchy was a tactical move aligned to then cold war realities. He would not have held to that today.

BP Koirala's towering presence in Nepal's democracy struggle is unmistaken. And that has to be honored. He was really something.

Time will come to name other landmarks after the likes of Madan Bhandari and Gajendra Narayan Singh.

Girija Koirala: Nepal's First President?

There is a strong chance that could happen. Heck, it could happen right now. If not, the first day of the first session of the constituent assembly will declare Nepal a republic, and if the Congress unifies now, it is likely to do well enough that Girija gets to head also the all party government born out of that new assembly.

On The Web

About BP Koirala
About B. P. Koirala
B.P. KOIRALA (The story of Bisheshor Prasad Koirala) : PRESENTED ...
bp koirala institute of health sciences dharan
The Hindu : Permanent rebellion: The story of B.P. Koirala The memoirs that rationalise the most, further notes Maurois, are those written by military men and politicians. The General's victories in his re-telling owe nothing to accident and impulse, or luck: they are the product of planning and tactical skill alone. The Prime Minister's policies owe nothing to expediency or compromise; they are made exclusively on the basis of ideology and principle. ..... The autobiography of the Nepali politician and sometime Prime Minister B.P. Koirala stands as a stunning exception to the rule. This is a remarkable document of personal and social history, a vivid account of exile and rebellion that provides acute insights into the history and politics of the 20th Century. ....... Born in 1914, B.P. was the son of Krishna Prasad Koirala, a poet, businessman and reformer who fought and made up - and then fought again - with the Rana rulers of Nepal. Krishna Prasad helped establish the town of Biratnagar in the Terai, where he made his money running a series of customs posts. ....... B.P. grew up in the India of the 1920s, a place and time with a plenitude of political choices. There was Gandhi, and there was Lenin. And there was Attaturk, an appealing model for rationalists seeking to rid their own society of tradition and custom. ............... Koirala chose Gandhi. After hearing the Mahatma speak he told his father he would now join an ashram school. The patriarch encouraged him, for he believed that the Indian National Movement "was also our movement because the autocracy of the Ranas was supported by British imperialists". The boy, meanwhile, was soaking in the progressive writing of the Indo-Gangetic plain. He read Maithili Sharan Gupt and Jai Shanker Prasad, and above all, Premchand. Indeed, it was in Premchand's journal Hans that B.P. made his literary debut. ......... The son stayed on in India, and turned leftwards. He read Marx, listened to Radio Moscow, and hung about with the communists. ...... Koirala was impressed by Marxist theory, but less so by Communist politics. He could not accept the Communist Party of India's view that the national movement "was nothing, that it was being masterminded by the British themselves, and that Gandhi was an unknowing agent of the British." ......... It was at about this time that the Nepali radical made the acquaintance of that other oscillator between Gandhi and Marx, Jayaprakash Narayan. "I was greatly impressed by him," writes Koirala: "he did not use sophisticated language and exhibited a simple personality." B.P. also befriended Acharya Narendra Dev and Ram Manohar Lohia. He was studying at the Banaras Hindu University (BHU), a hotbed of the Congress Socialists. Like them, and like Jawaharlal Nehru, he thought of going to Spain to fight on the Republican side in the civil war. ............. he got caught up in the Quit India movement ..... He was now lodged in Bankipur Jail, where one of his colleagues was Dr. Rajendra Prasad. They engaged in friendly but vigorous debate; Rajen babu on the side of spiritualism, the Nepali on behalf of scientific socialism. ....... "the salvation of the Nepalese lies in struggle", that "to hope for reforms from the Ranas is like hoping for milk from a dry cow". ....... On January 25, 1947, these men established the Nepali National Congress, with the help of funds from a handful of disgruntled Ranas. In March of that year, B.P's younger brother Girija Prasad helped instigate a strike of jute mill workers in Biratnagar. B.P. crossed over to help. He was arrested, and taken with his fellow agitators to Kathmandu, a long, slow walk across the hills. It took three weeks to get to the capital, the prisoners' march attracting much attention and helping to radicalise the peasants whose villages lay en route........... The Koiralas were kept in a Kathmandu bungalow. Letters to the Rana Prime Minister by Gandhi, Rajendra Prasad and others helped bring about an early release. B.P. went back to India, and began looking for arms to storm Kathmandu. ....... "from the radio of a cigarette and paan vendor nearby I heard the news - Gandhi has died." ... B.P. came back to his boarding house and wept through the night in remorse. ....... words of Ho Chi Minh: "Whatever may be my disagreements with Gandhi, we are all his products. Wherever there is a struggle, he has given his support and moral leadership. Even as someone who believes in violence, I can say that we are all his progeny." .......... in 1948 B.P. entered Kathmandu himself, disguised as a pandit. ....... A band of Nepali Congressmen stormed a treasury in Birganj. A tractor dressed up as a tank - by covering its sides with metal sheets - forced its way into the governor's garrison in the key town of Biratnagar. ...... B.P. was Home Minister, but had to resign after his policemen fired on a students' demonstration. ........ A revealing aspect of these memoirs is the bitter rivalry between the Koirala brothers. One was cautious, the other hot-headed. One was a moderate monarchist, the other a republican. Their disagreements were political and they were personal. B.P. even alleges that his brother once tried to bump him off. Jayaprakash Narayan tried, without success, to effect a reconciliation. Eventually the Nepali Congress split into two parties, one for each brother........... Mahendra was resentful of Koirala's popularity within and (especially) outside Nepal. ...... Mahendra was being pushed by the landed aristocracy to act before the Congress put in place radical land reforms. ...... While his brother was in jail, Matrika Prasad went off as King Mahendra's Ambassador to the United States. His family was fearful that B.P. would be bumped off, thus to meet the fate of the independent-minded Prime Minister of the Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Jawaharlal Nehru sent a message of reassurance through Koirala's sister. Nehru's "level of personal interest," remarks B.P. was "a source of great and reliable moral support for us prisoners who were so suddenly isolated." ........ hero and builder of modern Nepal: B.P. Koirala. ..... The eight years in Sundarijal jail are quickly glossed over. ........ Koirala's later life which, as always, was chockful of incident and controversy. ....... Exiled once more to India, he prepared his comrades in the Nepali Congress for a fresh round of armed struggle. Thirty-five of his young followers perished in one encounter, wiped out by the Nepali army while taking shelter in a cave. In 1976, Koirala himself returned to his country, sensing perhaps that he had not long to live. He was immediately arrested, and made a remarkable speech at his trial where he defended armed rebellion. ........ He struck close friendships with Indian politicians. Jayaprakash Narayan and Jawaharlal Nehru were to him like big brothers. But after his return to Nepal, India itself reappeared as Big Brother. As Home Minister and Prime Minister, writes Koirala, he had to fight against three forces: the royal palace, the land- holding elite, and India. Nehru might have been kind and polite, but his government deeply resented Koirala's independent foreign policy. The Indian ambassador in Kathmandu "believed that he was even greater than the King". ........ the fragility of Nepal's democracy ...... (The rise of the Maoists is a consequence of the failures of previous regimes to more effectively carry out the land reforms that Koirala had called for.) ....... one who was caught, on the right side, in the great (and unfinished) battle of the modern world, that between autocracy and democracy. ....... B.P. was one of his country's finest writers as well as its most prominent political rebel. ..... remarks on Kathmandu's intellectuals: "They love to highlight unimportant matters ... They are big on discussion, but do not give a paisa of support". And again: "Whoever came (to India) from Kathmandu in those days used to arrive with a great air of mystery, as if they alone were carrying the heavy burden of revolution." ......... Exile, jail, exile again; life underground and life as the Prime Minister of his people: only Nelson Mandela among modern statesmen could so completely have known the highs and the lows of politics. ....... B.P. provides a superb, if chilling, description of the lifestyle of those celebrated fighters for the world's poor, the Chinese Communists. In Beijing, Mao Zedong and Chou En-Lai stayed in lakeside palaces in the former emperor's grounds, their dwellings marked by great marble staircases and wall-to-wall carpeting. "The grandeur amidst which the Chinese leaders were living", remarks Koirala, "could not have been matched by any ruler of a capitalist state". ...... Reading B.P. Koirala's memoirs, I was struck by the parallels between his life and Nehru's. Both were democratic socialists who learnt much from Gandhi and a little from Marx. Both had fathers who were strong-minded and authoritative, self-made men who made a great deal of money and had a political orientation besides. The sons both became traitors to their class. Their own political choices exposed them to poverty and oppression. Nonetheless, both enjoyed the ceremony of power: the bowing and scraping at state visits and the meetings at the U.N.. Both were truly charismatic figures who towered over their colleagues. B.P's description of the 1959 elections in this book recalls the role played by Nehru in the Indian elections of 1952. Victory for the party candidate was assured only after Koirala or Nehru had descended from the air to speak. Each constituency had, so to say, to be sanctified by a speech by the Great Leader. Their names got their party into power, but once in office, both were hemmed in by more cautious men on their own side. The programmes of economic and social justice that they were in principle committed to never seriously took effect. (Nehru might well have written, as Koirala does here, that "real and effective support I did not get from my own party".) And in either case, politics became a kind of family business: Nehru's daughter and grandson, and Koirala's elder and younger brother, also held office as Prime Minister of their country.
BIOGRAPHY OF B.P. KOIRALA
Himal Books - B.P. Koirala’s Atmabrittanta
Koirala family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Girija Prasad Koirala - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
B.P. Koirala Institute of Medical Sciences
Kiran Mishra - BP KOIRALA: Life and Times
BP Koirala - Nepali Times
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राजालाई सम्पत्तिविहीन बनाउने कांग्रेस निर्णय स्वर्गीय राजा वीरेन्द्रको सम्पूर्ण सम्पत्तिको एउटा कोष बनाउनुपर्ने र राजदरबारको परम्परागत सम्पत्तिलाई राष्ट्रियकरण गर्नुपर्ने ठहर ..... राजतन्त्रको भविष्य संविधानसभाको पहिलो निर्णयबाट टुंगो लगाउने अडान आठ दलको वार्तामा राख्ने ..... हतियार व्यवस्थापनलाई वार्ताको केन्द्रबिन्दु बनाउने ..... राज्यको हतियार 'तटस्थ' र माओवादी हतियार 'पूर्ण व्यवस्थापन' भएपछि मात्र जनताको लोकतान्त्रिक अभ्यास र संविधानसभा चुनावका लागि भयरहित वातावरण बन्ने अडान कांग्रेसको छ । ..... सरकार र माओवादीबीच सहमति र समझदारी हुँदै जाने तर कार्यान्वयन नहुने प्रवृत्ति
'अन्तरिम संविधानपछि मात्रै निर्वाचनको बाटो'
राजमार्ग कब्जामा
वाममोर्चा मन्त्रीलाई फिर्ता बोलाउने पक्षमा
राजपरिवारको जग्गामा हदबन्दी
वार्तासँगै पुनर्निर्माणमा जोड दिनुपर्छ ः कुलचन्द्र
माओवादी र प्रेस
शान्ति वार्तामा राजतन्त्रको विवाद सिंगो मुलुक संविधानसभामय बनेको त छ तर त्यसको स्वच्छता, निष्पक्षता र सुनिश्चितता हतियार व्यवस्थापनमै गाँसिएको छ । ....... राजतन्त्र उन्मूलन गर्ने दलहरूको साझा सहमति बन्नासाथ माओवादी नेतृत्व हतियार व्यवस्थापन गर्न सहजै तयार देखिन्छ । ....... सात दलका अधिकांश घटक संविधानसभाको चुनावसम्म सेरेमोनियल मोनार्की राख्न तयार रहेको देखिन्छ । माओवादीसमेत संविधानसभा चुनावसम्म राजतन्त्र राख्न तयार भएको त छ तर निलम्बित अवस्थामा । ....... 'सेरेमोनियल मोनार्की' लाई अन्तरिम अवधिका लागि स्वीकार गरेको देखिन्छ । ...... केही प्रमुख दलहरूले गणतन्त्रको औचित्य आत्मसात गरिसकेका छन् । ...... मुलुकमा सक्रिय राजतन्त्रको अवशेष बाँकी नै छ । ....... शीर्ष बैठकमा राजतन्त्रको विषय गरमागरम बहस र असहमतिकै प्रमुख बुँदा बन्न पुगेको छ ।
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मैले किसुनजीलाई भनेँ, तपाईंकहाँ आउन्न ः विमलेन्द्र निधि आफू पाँच वर्षको हुँदा जनकपुर विमानस्थलमा पिता स्व महेन्द्रनारायण निधि, जो त्यतिबेला उप-सभामुख हुनुहुन्थ्यो, पक्राउ परेपछि विमलेन्द्र निधिको मनमा गढ्यो, राजा र यिनका सिपाहीलाई खत्तम गर्नुपर्छ । ...... ०३६ सालमा सम्पन्न नेपाल विद्यार्थी सङ्घको महाधिवेशनमा अध्यक्ष चुनिएका ....... अख्तियारले डामेका केही व्यक्ति आफूलाई शुद्ध देखाउन पार्टी एकीकरणको स्वाङ रचिरहेका छन् । ... तिनीहरू आन्दोलनको पनि विरोध गररिहेका थिए । न तिनसँग एकीकरणका लागि चाहिने कुनै एजेण्डा छन््, न कुनै गृहकार्य नै । ..... नेपाली काङ्ग्रेसले आफ्नो उद्देश्यमा निहित राष्ट्रियता, प्रजातन्त्र र समाजवादमध्ये समाजवादलाई झिकेर विकास र शान्ति थपेको छ । ..... खोइ त वार्ताको गृहकार्य ? ..... प्रजातान्त्रिकले भनेको छ, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक राज्यको निर्माण, राजतन्त्र अपरहिार्य नहुनु, समावेशीकरणका आधारमा राज्यको पुनःसंरचना, कदमजम -कणर्ाली, दलित, महिला, जनजाति, मधेशी) को व्याख्या । यी यस्ता कुरामा दुवै पार्टीको एकै धारणा बन्नु जरुरी छ । साथै, पार्टीको आन्तरकि लोकतान्त्रीकरण पनि आवश्यक छ । ...... जब केपी -कृष्णप्रसाद) बाट जीपी -गिरजिाप्रसाद) मा नेपाली काङ्ग्रेसको नेतृत्व गयो, तब पार्टीको गतिविधि संस्थागत रूपमा केन्द्रीकृत भयो । जिविसको सभापति-उपसभापति, मेयर-उपमेयरको टिकट दिने काम पनि केन्द्रले गर्न थाल्यो । ...... पछिल्लो संसदीय निर्वाचनका लागि २२ वटा क्षेत्रका उम्मेदवारको नाम संसदीय समितिले तय गरेकोमा त्यसलाई काटेर नयाँ नाम आयोगमा पठाउने काम सभापतिबाट भयो । ..... महेन्द्रनारायण निधि प्रतिष्ठानले पिताजीको निधनपछि वृत्तचित्र बनाउने निर्णय गर्‍यो । निश्चय नै यसमा किसुनजीको 'बाइट' राख्दा अर्थपूर्ण हुन्थ्यो । मैले किसुनजीलाई भनेँ । उहाँले सहर्ष स्वीकार्नुभयो । त्यसपछिका दिनमा उहाँकी निजी सहायक अमिता कपालीमार्फत बाइट दिन नसक्ने कुरो आयो । ....... अर्को एउटा प्रसङ्ग छ । पिपरा महोत्तरीमा रामनारायण मिश्रको प्रतिमा अनावरण गर्न किसुनजी, गिरजिाबाबु र शेरबहादुरलाई बोलाउने निर्णय भयो । आफ्ना राजनीतिक सखाको प्रतिमा अनावरण गर्न जान्छु भनेर फुरुङ्ग हुनुभा'थ्यो किसुनजी । उहाँको स्वास्थ्यलाई ख्याल गरेर हामीले हेलिकप्टर चार्टर गर्ने प्रबन्ध मिलाएका थियौँ । यसमा पनि उहाँकी सहायक बाधक बनिन् । यसपछि उहाँसँग मेरो भेट भएको थिएन । ...... यदि कोही भगवान्ले भक्तलाई अपहेलना गर्छ भने त्यो मन्दिरमा पुनः जाँदैन । म पनि तपाईंकहाँ आउन्न ।' यसपछि उहाँले भन्नुभो, 'ए बाबु, आइ टुक माई वर्ड ब्याक ।' ..... किसुनजी त डायरी लेख्नुहुन्छ । ..... नेपालमा राजतन्त्र चाहिन्छ भन्ने उहाँको धारणाप्रति मेरो सदैव असहमति छ । ...... लोकतन्त्रको दीर्घायुका लागि पनि पार्टी एकीकरण हुनु अपरहिार्य छ । ..... प्रजातान्त्रिकका सभापति शेरबहादुर देउवाले तीन सदस्यीय कार्यदल गठन गरेर तिनको नाम गिरजिाबाबुलाई दिएको महिना दिन भइसक्यो । ...... प्रजातान्त्रिक काङ्ग्रेस त पहिल्यै लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्रको पक्षमा छ । मेरो विचारमा प्रायः सबै गणतन्त्रमा विश्वास राख्छन् । कोही व्यक्त गर्छन्, कोही अव्यक्त रहन्छन् । राज्यको पुनःसंरचनामा सहमत नभई त मिलनको कुरै छैन । काङ्ग्रेस यी विषयमा अड्क्यो भने प्रजातान्त्रिकलाई कमजोर बनाउन पार्टी जुटाउने स्वाङ गररिहेको छ भन्न कर लाग्छ ।...... राजनीतिमा लागेकाहरूका निम्ति विचार ठूलो कुरो हो । भीड केही होइन । विचारले भीड बढाउँछ भन्ने कुरो माओवादी पार्टीलाई हेरे पुग्छ । ...... वार्ता सफलताको चरणमा छ । .... माओवादीकै भनाइमा उनीहरूसँग जनयुद्ध थाल्दा न हतियार थियो, न त सङ्गठन । समयक्रममा उनीहरूको विचार यति सवल भएर आयो कि हतियार पनि प्रशस्त भो । जनआधार पनि त्यत्तिकै सवल भयो । आन्तरकि रूपमा लोकतान्त्रिक नभएका पार्टीहरूले अभ्यास गरेको प्रजातन्त्र धराशायी भयो । जनआन्दोलनमार्फत त्यसले पुनर्जीवन पाएको छ । मान्नुस् या नमान्नुस्, माओवादीको संलग्नताले यो सम्भव भएको हो । ...... मधेशी समुदायको नागरकिताको समस्या पनि अब समाधान हुनेछ । यसर्थ, म जुन पार्टीमा छु, त्यसैमा रहेर यी समस्या समाधान हुनेछन् । ..... चालू संसद्को विधेयकले धेरै कुरा समेटेको छैन । संविधानसभाका लागि मतदाता नामावली तयार हुनुभन्दा पहिल्यै सबै नेपाली नागरकिले नागरकिता पाउनुपर्छ । ..... नेपालीबाहेक अरूलाई नेपालको नागरकिता किन चाहिन्छ ? ... जो नागरकिताको प्रमाणपत्र नलिई यसै देशमा जन्मन्छ र मर्छ भने त्यसका बारेमा राज्यले सोच्नु पर्दैन ? सही व्यक्तिले नागरकिता पाओस् भनेर संयन्त्रको विकास गर्नु राज्यको दायित्व हो । तर, अरूले लिन्छन् भनेर पाउनुपर्नेलाई नदिइराख्न मिल्दैन ।
हतियार-गणतन्त्र साटासाट साढे चार वर्षको अवधिमा १३ औँ पटक प्रत्यक्ष भेटघाट गरसिकेका प्रधानमन्त्री गिरजिाप्रसाद कोइराला र माओवादी अध्यक्ष प्रचण्ड ...... सो बैठकमा प्रधानम्ान्त्रीले माओवादीसँग घुमाउरो पारामा जनयुद्धमा भएगरेका गल्तीबारे आत्मालोचना गर्दै नेपाली जनतासँग माफी माग्नुपर्ने शर्त राखेका थिए । त्यसपछि वार्ता झण्डै बिथोलिने अवस्थामा पुगेको थियो । ...... प्रचण्डले तीनबुँदे प्रस्ताव राखे, जुन यसप्रकार छ ः
१. दलहरूले नै अन्तरमि संविधान बनाऊन्, सरकार पनि दलहरूकै होस् । तर, हतियार नै मूल बाधक हो भन्ने कुरालाई धेरै जोड नदिउ“m । संविधानसभाको तिथि घोषणा होस् । पाँचबुँदे सहमतिअनुरूप दुवैतिरका सेनालाई संविधानसभाको चुनाव अवधिसम्म अनुगमन गर्न तयार छाँै । निष्पक्ष्ा चुनाव गराउने वातावरण तयार पारौँ । माओवादीलाई खुला प्रतिस्पर्धामा प्रचारप्रसार गर्ने वातावरण बनोस् ।
२. राज्यको पुनःसंरचना गर्ने सहमति भएमा माओवादी सरकारमा जान तयार छ । तर, त्यसका लागि सेनाको संरचनादेखि निर्वाचन प्रणालीसम्ममा सुधार आउनुपर्छ । त्यस अवस्थामा पनि माओवादीको हतियार राष्ट्रसङ्घकै सुपरीवेक्षणमा गरनिे कुरामा हाम्रो सहमति छ ।
३. यदि सात दल र माओवादी मिलेर संयुक्त गणतान्त्रिक मोर्चा बनाई संविधानसभामा जाने सहमति हुन्छ भने माओवादीका सबै हतियार 'लक' गर्न तयार छौँ ।
२६ गते बिहान १० बजे माओवादी नेताहरू प्रचण्ड, बाबुराम, बादल र महरासहित प्रधानमन्त्री गिरजिाप्रसाद कोइराला, एमाले महासचिव माधवकुमार नेपाल र पूर्वप्रधानमन्त्री शेरबहादुर देउवा करीब चार घण्टा छलफलमा बसे । ...... वास्तवमा, यस बैठकमा प्रधानमन्त्री कति भावुक भएर प्रस्तुत भए भने त्यसले वार्ताको वातावरण नै अर्कै बनाइदियो । स्रोतका अनुसार, प्रधानमन्त्री कोइरालाले प्रचण्डसँग संविधानसभाको चुनावभन्दा अघि राजाका सबै अधिकार कटौती गर्ने प्रतिबद्धता व्यक्त गरेका थिए । त्यसैगरी, स् वर्गवासी राजा वीरेन्द्रका सबै र राजा ज्ञानेन्द्रका केही उद्योगका लगानीहरू राष्ट्रियकरण गर्ने सहमति जनाएका थिए । ...... बालुवाटार बैठक सकिनासाथ उनले दुई दिनभित्र केन्द्रीय समितिको 'आकस्मिक बैठक' बोलाए । यति छोटो समयको अन्तरमा केन्द्रीय समितिको बैठक बोलाइएको माओवादीको १२ वर्षे इतिहासमा यो पहिलोपटक हो । ...... अन्तरमि व्यवस् थापिकाबारे माओवादीले यसअघि सार्दै आएको ३३ प्रतिशतको कुरामा पनि सम्झौता गर्ने भएका छन् । यसमा काङ्ग्रेस, एमाले र माओवादीको समानुपातिक सहभागिता रहने गरी अन्य दल एवम् नागरकि समाजलाई त्यही अनुपातमा मिलाउने गृहकार्य भइरहेको छ । ...... प्रचण्डका शब्दमा, "जनताले परविर्तन चाहिरहेका छन्, शान्तिको घोषणा सुन्न चाहेका छन्, त्यस्तो अवस्थामा फेर िअर्कोपल्ट माओवादीले हदै लचिलोपन अपनाएर शान्ति प्रक्रियामार्फत वार्ता सफल पार्न चाहन्छ ।" ...... सरकारभित्र रहेको सेना र 'ब्युरोक्रेसी' मा आफ्नो पकड जमाउन पनि माओवादीलाई सरकारमा जानु आवश्यक छ । तर, 'सरकारमा गएमा नेताहरू बद्नाम हुने र त्यसको दोष पूरै पार्टीलाई जान्छ' भन्नेहरूको पनि मत माओवादीमा प्रबल छ ।
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माओवादी अध्यक्ष प्रचण्डले असोज २२ गते हुने वार्ताप्रति आफू धेरै आशावादी नभएको बताउँदै नेपाल सँगको विशेष अन्तर्वार्तामा असहमतिका लागि वार्तामा बस्नुको कुनै तुक नभएको बताउनुभएको छ
शाही संलग्नतामा खुलेर सञ्चालन भइरहेका उद्योगधन्दामध्ये सबभन्दा धेरै झापाको दमकस्थित हिमालय गुडरकि प्रालिले १४ हजार दुई सय ४३ रोपनी जग्गा ओगटेको छ । हिमालय चिया बगानको स्वामित्वमा जग्गाधनी श्रेस् ताले पाँच सय ७५ बिघा १७ कट्ठा १४ धुर मात्रै जग्गा रहेको देखाउँछ । तर, दमक नगरपालिकाका एक पूर्वजनप्रतिनिधिको दाबी छ, "उक्त कम्पनीले कूल एक हजार ५५ बिघा जग्गा ओगटेको छ ।" ....... हाल राजा ज्ञानेन्द्रकी छोरी पे्ररणाका नाममा गरएिको सोल्टी इन्टरप्राइजेज प्रालिका ४८.४७ प्रतिशत शेयर उक्त चिया बगानमा ०४७ फागुन ९ को अभिलेखले चाहिँ तत्कालीन अधिराजकुमार ज्ञानेन्द्रको एक सय १४, कोमलको ९३, धीरेन्द्रको ९४, पे्रक्षाको ९३ र पारसको नाममा ३० कित्ता शेयर रहेको देखाउँछ । मोठ नम्बर ५/९२२ मा १५ वटा कित्तामा सात हजार सात सय ६५ रोपनी जग्गा दर्ता अवस्थामा छ भने छ हजार चार सय ७८ रोपनी ऐलानी जग्गा उक्त कम्पनीले भोगचलन गररिहेको छ । ...... दरबारमार्गमा रहेको ४१ रोपनी जग्गा ०४३ असार २६ को निर्णयबाट होटल डेला अन्नपूर्णका नाममा दर्ता गरेको पाइएको छ । सोल्टी होटलका नाममा ८२ रोपनी जग्गा ताहाचल र पशुपतिमा रहेको छ । ...... उद्योगधन्दाका नाममा नेपालको पूर्वी तराईमा शाह र राणा परविारका कैयौँ व्यक्तिले यस ढङ्गले हजारौँ रोपनी जग्गा हदबन्दी छल्ने नियतका साथ सुरक्षित स्वामित्वमा राखेका छन् । ..... पूर्वसांसद रुद्रमणि शर्मा भण्डारीको अध्यक्षतामा गठित एक आयोगको प्रतिवेदनमा यस्ता जग्गाजमीनको आंशिक विवरण उल्लेख त गरएिको थियो । तर, उक्त प्रतिवेदन नै हाल भूमाफिया गिरोहले गायब पारसिकेको स्रोतहरूको दाबी छ । तत्कालीन भूमिसुुधारमन्त्री जगन्नाथ आचार्यले राजा, राजपरविारका सदस्य र ठूला उद्योगीले हदबन्दी छल्ने अभिप्रायले उद्योगका नाममा लुकाइराखेको जग्गा खोज्ने र खोस्ने कुरा बोलेबापत ०४८ सालमा मन्त्री पद नै गुमाउनुपरेको थियो । .......... काठमाडौँको गोकर्णमा राजा वीरेन्द्रका नाममा रहेको तीन हजार एक सय २३ रोपनी नौ आना पाँच पैसा दुई दाम जग्गामा हाल ला मेरेडियन होटल चलिरहेको छ ।

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Alam reiterates Nepal’s commitment to combat terrorism

Lawmaker Aftab Alam, who is also a member of the Nepali delegation to the 61st session of the UN General Assembly, reiterated Nepal's commitment to combat terrorism from the world.

Participating on agenda item on Measures to Eliminate International Terrorism at the Sixth Committee of the General Assembly on Monday, he said, “While we discuss on how to prevent terrorism through legal ways and means that lay down normative foundation for international cooperation in combating terrorism, it is imperative to address the situation that harbour terrorism, including socio-economic backwardness, including poverty, illiteracy, violation of human rights and fundamental freedoms, suppression and extremism and intolerance that lead to violence and destruction of public property.

He further said that we must encourage dialogue and negotiations to resolve any disputes through peaceful means of settlement as envisaged in the Charter of the United Nations.

He stressed that democracy, the rule of law, human rights and freedom of people provide foundation for sustained peace and stability in the society.

He underlined the need for an agreement on a comprehensive convention on international terrorism that seriously threatened international peace and security.

Alam highlighted the adoption of both the international convention for the suppression of acts of nuclear terrorism and the international comprehensive strategy to combat terrorism by the General Assembly as a significant step forward.

He urged the international community to extend their financial and technical support in enhancing national capacity of member States.

Alam also underlined the need for a comprehensive legal framework strengthening the United Nations' efforts to deal with international terrorism more effectively and resolutely.

He called upon the international community to continue its cooperation for vigorous and concerted effort for combating such heinous crimes against peace, humanity and development.

Email To All Madhesis From Rajendra Mahto

Write to Rajendra Mahto at rmahto@hotmail.com








राजेन्द्रजी,

आपका अपील पढा। काफी खुशी हुई। लगा चलो कोइ तो काम कर रहा है मधेशी हक िहतके िलए। १९९४-९६ में आपके साथ िकए कामोंकी याद आई। राजाके कुके बाद जब आप िदल्लीमें थे तब जो हम फोन पर बितयाते थे, उसकी याद आइ। आपके माध्यमसे ही उस वक्त कृष्ण िसटौलासे गप्प हुइ। आज वो गृह मन्त्री हैं।

अभी
मधेशीयोको कुछ िमला नहीं है। पृथ्वीनारायणने जो उपिनवेशवाद लादा मधेश पर वो अभी भी कायम है। महेन्द्रका पञ्चायत तो फेंक िदया गया लेिकन एक भाषा, एक भेष वाला महेन्द्र पथ कायम है। नही तो वीपी कोइरालाके संसदमें िहन्दीको मान्यता प्राप्त थी।

गोइत जो आज कह रहा है वो बात पहाडी लोग दशकोंसे कहते आए हैं। ६० लाख
मधेशीयोको नागिरकता पत्र न देनेका मतलब है आप कह रहे हैं वो नेपाली नही हैं। िजसको आप नेपाली मानते ही नही हैं वो लोग अपना िमट्टी अपने साथ ले जाएँ अौर अलग देश बना ले तो क्या हर्ज है?

लेिकन हमें अलग देश नहीं चािहए। मैं तो दिक्षण एिसयाका आर्िथक एकीकरणका सपना देख्नेवाला व्यक्ित हुँ।
मैं एिसयन शताब्दीका सपना देख्नेवाला व्यक्ित हुँ। मुझे व्यक्ितगत तो मधेश नामका अलग राज्य तक नहीं चािहए।

"हामी नेपाली" का भावना िजन्दगीमें कभी हमें महसुस ही नहीं हुआ। चाहे वो बुढानीलकण्ठ स्कुलके बाहुनोका गन्दा राजनीित हो या काठमान्डुके सडको पर
मधेशीयोका दुर्दशा, नेल्सन मण्डेला उसको "a thousand little indignities" कहते हैं। यहाँ तककी अमेरीकाके िमनी नेपालमें भी वही हाल है। मधेशीयोका मानिसक दासता यहाँ भी बरकरार है। राजेन्द्रजी, आप जैसे लोगोंकी जरूरत अमेरीकाके मधेशीयोको भी है। पैसा कमा लेता है, िडग्री प्राप्त कर लेता है, लेिकन मधेशीया मानिसक दासता नहीं छोडता है।

मुझे नेपालका संिवधान कैसा चािहए, वो तो मैं िलख चुका हुँ। मेरे प्रस्तािवत
संिवधान पर कुछ बहस हो। सम्पर्कमें तो रहना ही है।

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Email From Anil Jha

Parmendra ji It' my handfold request to u to send this argument to all madheshi who want to be far from us, aur unke liye ek sayari bhi pesh hai " BHAGAT SINGH JAROOR JANME, LEKIN PADOSHI KE GHAR" ki tarah nahi chalega.

If a very few madheshi (specially from Sadbhawana) is raised genune issues from very begning then what is the duty of Prabashi Madheshi ? If others made money in past and till now making but just cashing the issue. Prabashi Madheshi should ask questions to them and support us, if Prabashi Madheshi are wants to be impartial.

In my personl Openion that In Nepal, Pahadiyas are no harder as like as South Africa or Palistine rulars, they are very very soft and injecting sweet poison to madheshi and slowly capturing madhesh. Chitawan, Jhapa, Morang, sunsari, Bardiya, Kailali, Kanchanpur, dang and Udaypur are the major examples of just last 45 years. In each and every Party there are alot of madheshi back benchars ( Like Sikandar Bakt's in BJP-India, Mir Zafar and Jai Chand's of Indian Freedom and Muslim fights espectively), even now I have alot of examples about so called dabang madheshi leaders of INCLUSIVE and DEMOCRATIC NEPAL. They are getting chance to be Minister, 90% (+) madheshi voting for other party than sadbhawana and same 90% are very very -ve about their own community Madheshi and +ve on Pahadiyas, as aftab Alam of NC talking to Parmendra and Binay.

If welknown Madheshiyas (who are residing abroad and knows the dynamics of power, weak community and ) specially nobody among u are born in abroad, all are madhesh born, So aren't u know the mindset? Is it posible to say a pro-madheshi activist that u r doing wrong because 90% madheshi through ballate denied regularly in last 15 years of Democracy the issues of sadbhawana which is fact but hard reality, Now all party are saying that is true in some issues. Is it true or not when there was Rithik Roshan Kand in Kathmandu one madheshi wasInformation Minister and that minister in hardcore pahadi wearings and argued that " Yo aandolan rastrawadi bhawana le swasphurta roople bhayeko chha"

If we are wrong pls say u r wrong and if we are right why u r not supporting us directly ? What is hagitation to u ? Do u need something from Nepali state or political party? I think no.

If 90% madheshi can live in same circumstances what we all are facing then why not 10% including NSP(Both) workers/ voters/ supporters ? Is it only their duty? Only Sadbhawana's are xtorted, exployted, discriminated, marginalized? No, we all madheshi.

I want to request to say "Pls remember initially the xtortion, exploytation, discrimination, marginalizing done by pahadiyas/ rulersnot to Sadbhawana but to all madheshi, then only sadbhawana tekan place after 220 years of Nepal's unification i.e. madheshi's exploitation. If we are right, our questions and reservations on Nepalese state and rulers are right then it is the duty of all madheshi to support us, It's our Haque not Bhiksha from u madheshi's.

If we advocted right and other's misguided u all in past then they should do Praschitya. Because Wee log jo sadbhawana ke aalawe ke party me hai unhone madheshiyon ko chit kiya, bargalaya, galat rasta dikhaya. Aap ko unhe dandit karna chahiye. Sadbhawana ko aur sirf sadbhawana ke ladaku dasta ko hi Prabashi Madheshiyo ka support hona chahiye, yah genuene baat hai. Waise Loktantar aur liberty sabhi ko hai, par sadbhawana ne yaa ushkae koi bhi karyakarta ne aaisi galati ya kukarma nahi kiya hai ki aap ko ushe support karne me sarmingadi mahashush ho, Yadi kiya hai to KHULLAM KHULLA MADHESH KO BINA KHANA BINA PAANI BINA HAWA BINA SWARTH bluntly madheshiyo ke dhaal ka hi kaam kiya hai. Shahab, sarm aur laaj to unhe hona chahiye jo kisi ne kisi ko aab bhi canfuse kiya hai ya karne ki prayash kisi ke or se ho raha hai to unhe honi chahiye aur aant me " BHIKH BHI MNGI HUM NE TO SAAN-E- KHUDDARI KE SAATH, KI DENEWALA BHI HUM SE SARMINDA RAHE"

That's why It is necessary to think very very positive on Sadbhawana and only those Madheshi who struggeled from very bigining for Madheshi " Aabhi roop ka ek sagar ho toom bahoot chahane wale mil jayenge". aabhi inclusion ka mudda pur desh me utha hai to bolne wale bahoot mil jayenge, to unka kya hoga jo bahoot pahle se ish deepak ko jalaye rakkha sirf Gaali????

Anil Jha


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Martin Luther King - Letter from Birmingham Jail Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. If I sought to answer all the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would have little time for anything other than such correspondence in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work. ........ you have been influenced by the view which argues against "outsiders coming in." I have the honor of serving as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization operating in every southern state, with headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. We have some eighty-five affiliated organizations across the South, and one of them is the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights. ....... am here because I was invited here I am here because I have organizational ties here. ...... I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. ..... Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. ...... Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds. ........ You deplore the demonstrations taking place In Birmingham. But your statement, I am sorry to say, fails to express a similar concern for the conditions that brought about the demonstrations. ........ the city's white power structure ...... In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct action. ........ Birmingham is probably the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States. ...... Negroes have experienced grossly unjust treatment in the courts. There have been more unsolved bombings of Negro homes and churches in Birmingham than in any other city in the nation. ....... Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the latter consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation. ........ As the weeks and months went by, we realized that we were the victims of a broken promise. ..... We had no alternative except to prepare for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and the national community. Mindful of the difficulties involved, we decided to undertake a process of self-purification. We began a series of workshops on nonviolence, and we repeatedly asked ourselves : "Are you able to accept blows without retaliating?" "Are you able to endure the ordeal of jail?" ........ You may well ask: "Why direct action? Why sit-ins, marches and so forth? Isn't negotiation a better path?" You are quite right in calling, for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. ........ I have earnestly opposed violent tension, but there is a type of constructive, nonviolent tension which is necessary for growth. Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half-truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, we must we see the need for nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to the majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood. ....... The purpose of our direct-action program is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation. ...... Too long has our beloved Southland been bogged down in a tragic effort to live in monologue rather than dialogue. ........ Some have asked: "Why didn't you give the new city administration time to act?" ........ While Mr. Boutwell is a much more gentle person than Mr. Connor, they are both segregationists, dedicated to maintenance of the status quo. ........ we have not made a single gain civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure. ...... privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily ...... groups tend to be more immoral than individuals. ........ freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. ....... I have yet to engage in a direct-action campaign that was "well timed" in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. ....... The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jetlike speed toward gaining political independence, but we stiff creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward gaining a cup of coffee at a lunch counter. ....... when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you have seen hate-filled policemen curse, kick and even kill your black brothers and sisters; when you see the vast majority of your twenty million Negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society; when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she can't go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky, and see her beginning to distort her personality by developing an unconscious bitterness toward white people; when you have to concoct an answer for a five-year-old son who is asking: "Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean?"; when you take a cross-county drive and find it necessary to sleep night after night in the uncomfortable corners of your automobile because no motel will accept you; when you are humiliated day in and day out by nagging signs reading "white" and "colored"; when your first name becomes "nigger," your middle name becomes "boy" (however old you are) and your last name becomes "John," and your wife and mother are never given the respected title "Mrs."; when you are harried by day and haunted by night by the fact that you are a Negro, living constantly at tiptoe stance, never quite knowing what to expect next, and are plagued with inner fears and outer resentments; when you no forever fighting a degenerating sense of "nobodiness" then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait. There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair. ................ two types of laws: just and unjust. ...... one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. ........ An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. ..... Any law that degrades human personality is unjust. All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distort the soul and damages the personality. ...... segregation is not only politically, economically and sociologically unsound, it is morally wrong and awful. ......... Throughout Alabama all sorts of devious methods are used to prevent Negroes from becoming registered voters, and there are some counties in which, even though Negroes constitute a majority of the population, not a single Negro is registered. ......... Sometimes a law is just on its face and unjust in its application. ......... One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty. ....... the early Christians, who were willing to face hungry lions and the excruciating pain of chopping blocks rather than submit to certain unjust laws of the Roman Empire. ...... academic freedom is a reality today because Socrates practiced civil disobedience. ...... the Boston Tea Party represented a massive act of civil disobedience........ It was "illegal" to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany. ........ over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. ...... the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." ........ Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection. ........ they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. ....... we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with an its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured........... a tragic misconception of time, from the strangely rational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills. ....... the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than have the people of good will. ...... We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people. ........ time is always ripe to do right. ....... two opposing forces in the Negro community. One is a force of complacency, made up in part of Negroes who, as a result of long years of oppression, are so drained of self-respect and a sense of "somebodiness" that they have adjusted to segregation; and in part of a few middle class Negroes who, because of a degree of academic and economic security and because in some ways they profit by segregation, have become insensitive to the problems of the masses. The other force is one of bitterness and hatred, and it comes perilously close to advocating violence. ........ we need emulate neither the "do-nothingism" of the complacent nor the hatred and despair of the black nationalist. ...... his black brothers of Africa and his brown and yellow brothers of Asia, South America and the Caribbean ...... The Negro has many pent-up resentments and latent frustrations, and he must release them. ......... I have not said to my people: "Get rid of your discontent." Rather, I have tried to say that this normal and healthy discontent can be channeled into the creative outlet of nonviolent direct action. .......... Jeans Christ, was an extremist for love, truth and goodness, and thereby rose above his environment. Perhaps the South, the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists. ......... I should have realized that few members of the oppressor race can understand the deep groans and passionate yearnings of the oppressed race, and still fewer have the vision to see that injustice must be rooted out by strong, persistent and determined action. ......... I have been so greatly disappointed with the white church and its leadership......... In the midst of blatant injustices inflicted upon the Negro, I have watched white churchmen stand on the sideline and mouth pious irrelevancies and sanctimonious trivialities. In the midst of a mighty struggle to rid our nation of racial and economic injustice, I have heard many ministers say: "Those are social issues, with which the gospel has no real concern." .......... rise from the dark dungeons of complacency to the bright hills of creative protest ....... There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love. ....... being the son, the grandson and the great-grandson of preachers. ....... fear of being nonconformists. ....... There was a time when the church was very powerful in the time when the early Christians rejoiced at being deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society. Whenever the early Christians entered a town, the people in power became disturbed and immediately sought to convict the Christians for being "disturbers of the peace" and "outside agitators"' ......... and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century. ........ I have no fear about the outcome of our struggle in Birmingham, even if our motives are at present misunderstood. ....... Before the pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. ......... You warmly commended the Birmingham police force for keeping "order" and "preventing violence." I doubt that you would have so warmly commended the police force if you had seen its dogs sinking their teeth into unarmed, nonviolent Negroes. I doubt that you would so quickly commend the policemen if .you were to observe their ugly and inhumane treatment of Negroes here in the city jail; if you were to watch them push and curse old Negro women and young Negro girls; if you were to see them slap and kick old Negro men and young boys; if you were to observe them, as they did on two occasions, refuse to give us food because we wanted to sing our grace together. I cannot join you in your praise of the Birmingham police department. ......... they have used the moral means of nonviolence to maintain the immoral end of racial injustice. As T. S. Eliot has said: "The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason." .......... their sublime courage, their willingness to suffer and their amazing discipline in the midst of great provocation. One day the South will recognize its real heroes. ........ who responded with ungrammatical profundity to one who inquired about her weariness: "My feets is tired, but my soul is at rest." ..... Never before have I written so long a letter. ..... what else can one do when he is alone in a narrow jail cell, other than write long letters, think long thoughts and pray long prayers? ......
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Monday, October 16, 2006

Summit Talks And Obstinate Congressias

Monarchy

The monarchy in Nepal is going to end in a proper, civilized, non-violent, democratic way. That is a foregone conclusion. The monarch will get to keep much of the property he owned before he became king. That however will not apply to land holdings. The land reform ceilings will also apply to him. This is a man who was not scheduled to be king, and he has been king only a few years. He is more used to not being king than being king. The transition back to not being king should not be hard for him. It is not the political paties that should be thankful the king has not pulled another coup yet. It is the king who should be thankful the monarchy in Nepal did not have a bloody end, and will not have a bloody end.

Now do some headcount. The UML is for a republic. The Maoists wrote the book on republic. The Jana Morcha is for a republic. The Majdoor Kisan Party is for a republic. The Left Front is for a republic. The Sadbhavana is for a republic. The Deuba Congress is for a republic. Even Girija Koirala has said he only wants to keep the ceremonial monarchy upto the constituent assembly elections. His party divorced itself from the monarchy completely during its last convention. Even the RPP is for a republic. There is not a single major political party in Nepal that has said it will campaign for a monarchy in any shape or form.

So why is anyone maintaining the fiction that a referendum is necessary? Why the talk to keep the monarchy until the constituent assembly elections? There is a slam dunk for a republic. You hold a referendum when the divide is near 50-50. You take the issue to constituent assembly if there is a need for a major debate on the issue. How can you debate an issue on which virtually all political parties have a clear agreement? Beats me.

If the seven parties were really enemies with the Maoists, they would have declared the country a republic through this House. That would have been a way to steal the Maoist thunder, a way to eat the Maoists' lunch.

Republic Now

What is wrong with the idea? Especially when republic now means we can move towards a total, comprehensive arms management?

In 2007 B.S. a naive BP Koirala took the army from the Rana prime minister and handed it over to the king. We paid for that mistake with half a century in the wilderness. The monarchy is not to be trusted.

Retaining the monarchy any longer gives the monarch and the monarchists room to play. If the monarch could invest a few crores to ensure a continued salary of tens of crores, do you think he will be tempted to do it? Do you think there are politicians and parties up for grabs? Do you think such might emerge later? Do you think there might be attempts at horse trading on the issue after the constituent assembly elections? Pumping money into the election process will not be hard to do. He could always maintain a few degrees of separation.

If we do not declare the country a republic now, we deprive the people of meaningful debate on other burning issues like federalism. The debate on monarchy will suck the oxygen from other issues.

Federalism Asks For Maps

The seven parties in power have refused to critique the Maoist map, and they have refused to come up with their own. That makes the Maoists suspicious. That tells them maybe you are not for federalism.

What is the UML map for federalism? What is the Congress map for federalism? If these parties were to start producing rough drafts, that would help the peace process.

Drunk On Power

There has been a tendency towards a relapse. A seven party alliance that has come to power by disagreeing with the king that there is a military solution to the Maoist insurgency has not been eager to do the hard work for a political solution. There is talk in some Congress circles that perhaps the constituent assembly can be skipped altogether, there is talk that perhaps such an assembly is not a good idea.

There is a clear tendency towards continued Bahunbaad in the vast majority of the appointments made by the Koirala cabinet. That makes the Maoists suspicious. That makes the DaMaJaMa masses suspicious.

There is this fear the Congress wants to take the country back to the failed 1990s. There is this feeling that delayed peace talks mean the current batch of MPs get to stay in power longer for no extra work. Because as soon as you move towards an interim government, the current group of people in the cabinet might not be there. That can be a disincentive.

There is also no talk in the Congress on internal democracy, on transparency.

Clarity Of Thought

The phrase "arms management" is getting tired of overuse. What exactly do you mean? It can not mean surrender. It should not mean the Maoists get to retain the cloud of fear over the population. And there has to be more than one way. What options are you exploring? How much leeway are you giving?

Opaque Process

Even the MPs had to pass a resolution saying they want to know what is going on in the peace talks. This is obscene. The peace talks should be made as transparent as possible. Let the people know. Let the people participate.

Army

How big should it be? Should there even be an army ultimately? There is an unwillingness to face this question.

Monarchy, Army, Federalism

Truth And Reconciliation Commission

The biggest mistake this government has made so far is to not have set up such a commission.

Land Reform, Truth And Reconciliation




The Obstinate Monarchists

Summit Talks And Maoist Nonsense
Summit Talks: Four Heads Talking
Televise The Summit Talks
The Summit Talks Will Succeed

Girija, Resign
Congress Unification: Not Possible, Unnecessary
Why It Is Important To Me The Congress Takes Up A Federal Republic
Girija Koirala: Not In Tune With The April Revolution
कांग्रेसले रोज्नुपर्ने बाटो

Koirala's Request To The Regime To Postpone Elections
Phone Talk With Girija Koirala: Meeting History Itself
Madhav Nepal, Commander Of The Movement
This Inadequate, Improper, Insufficient 1990 Constitution
Koirala Disappoints: He Is The Same Worn Out Record
Time For The Nepali Congress To Take A Stand On The Constituent Assembly Question

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