Rantings on Nepal's Politics

I have always been a harsh critic of the Maoists. I fail to grasp their ideologies, and the way their cadres resort to violence every time even when it’s not needed. I realize that this feeling against them has made me judge them with an unbalanced view.

Well, the way they act surely makes them a fear factor. However, in the recent times, the way they have been handling situations, I think, is quite on the mark. I felt that the Congress and the UML had changed and that they would be the new forces that would take every measure to ensure that democracy prevailed in Nepal. I had hoped that they had changed their mindset of participating in the dirty games of using every measure they could find to get into power. That, sadly, was not to be.

I do not know under what conditions they joined hands with the Madhesi JanAdhikar Forum. The Forum, for me, is a party of opportunists. It comprises mostly of the members, who left the Nepali Congress and the UML. Further, most of these people in this party have people, who were labeled as corrupt. After the Maoists joined the peace process, the Forum created chaos and havocs in the Terai – sometimes beating up and at times even killing people ethnically from the hills and mountains of Nepal, who were working or had migrated and settled in the Terai. After it’s creation, they used the feeling of discrimination that the Terai people had in their minds, to uplift their own political party. Well, it is still not the time to say if they are just working for the vested interests of foreign powers or they are acting seriously for the betterment of the people of Terai. But, the members that comprise the Forum, and its acts in the past have seriously jeopardized the Forum’s image for people like me.

I am also angered by the decision to appoint a previous hash dealer – who has nothing but bad reputation beside his name. How can anyone justify that action? The post of the Vice-President is an honorable one – it’s not a joke. Appointing a person, who has a bad history beside him, to be the FIRST Vice-President of the country is not a good precedent. They might argue that he’s changed from what he was in the past, but that is not good enough for anyone to assume the post of the Vice Presidency. Furthermore, he showed utter lack of responsibility when he dressed up in dhoti instead of Daura Surwal, which is the national dress of Nepal. That might be a step in line with his party, the Forum’s decision. But, how does it make the Nepali Congress and the UML look, who are considered to be the national parties of Nepal with a responsibility to lead the nation. When Prachanda said this coalition was unnatural, I thought it was a funny statement, but now I think he was right to do what he chose.
Furthermore, he is an advocate of a SINGLE Terai province, which I think is against the interests of the country and the people of Nepal. Division of the country, even more a small country like Nepal, on the basis of ethnicity is an unacceptable demand. How many ethnicities are there in Nepal? Well, if every ethnicity starts demanding it’s own state, how is that possible? We can’t make Nepal bigger than what it is already. We have limited resources. We have limits in everything – maybe more than most countries in the world. Furthermore, this is a crucial time – a time when mistakes are not worth making. These assholes do not seem to realize that. All they seem to care even at this important time is how they can come to power, and increase their own wealth.

Enough of these ramblings. I hope that the Maoists form the next government albeit there is a risk inasmuch as they might turn Nepal into a state like China or North Korea. I hope that the funny claim that the Forum put forward – that they were also given a mandate by the people to lead the government – remains a funny one for ever. The Separatists should never come to power, even more so when most of them are illiterate, corrupt and mere puppets of foreign powers. Though violent and stupid at times, the Maoists are more nationalists than any other political party at the moment.

Me thinks this way. Me can be wrong. Nonetheless, fuck everything that’s going on now in Nepal.