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| madhav |
Posted
on 04-Oct-02 11:11 PM
Political savants and think tanks of the country mark the recent move of King Gayandara as dramatic, undemocratic and unconstitutional. The case is a bit complicated because it is a step taken by constitutional head of state, described in political dictionary as titular head with no power to government and political activities. And it is generally accepted practice in almost countries with constitutional monarchy that such head of state should not venture for political power. Existence and popularity of constitutional monarchy in democracy is set primarily by their compliance with constitution and popular images on people. This is true and is in practice in England since more than last four hundred years and we have since 1990.
Politic is game of arts – arts of seeking every possible means. PM Deuba tried to continue as head of government; postponing scheduled election and he was confident enough that King would endorse his recommendation to extend election date line. To achieve this move by recently ousted PM, every political party were reached in consensus and some of them expressed willingness to participate in government that was supposed to be formed soon after King’s endorsement to PM’s petition. Accordingly, ousted PM recommended Kind citing Article 127 of the constitution of the kingdom Nepal to come over present crisis in the political scenario. All of sudden, PM’s move proved to be prejudicial and he is shacked by the constitutional King. This development has created a curiosity to analyze move of Deuba and move of royal palace and impact of recent move in political development of the country.
Prime Minister Deuba was supposed to be very much cunning and powerful in the present political apparatus of the country as he could recuperate country’s arm force against Maoist rebellions and was entrusted by His Majesty the King to conduct election in set date, 13th Nov. of this year. In the context when Election Commission in last fortnight decided to give election symbol to Congress party lead by GP Koirala, Prime Minister Deuba found himself and his colleges in a kind of political maze. The election without original election symbol of Nepali Congress appeared a hard nut to break. To get rid out of this maze he had only one option left : delay election and continue with power which could help him to nurture his party and balm political humiliation. Other political parties also apprehensive of up coming election for reasons (1) impartiality of election and (2) mounted security concern caused by Maoist arm rebel (3) and unveiled corrupt image among people and lack of charismatic election slogans. Therefore all political parties built a consensus to postpone election and it was a conducive situation for Deuba to forgo with election and occupy a hot seat in Singhadarbar. If Deuba concluded accordingly and ventured for delaying election, he made political blunder. He could continue with his office until committed to orchestrate election because he was entrusted by King to hold election on scheduled date not for other business. King got solid constitutional ground to shack him when Deuba petitioned to King to withhold election date. It is not against the spirit of democracy to continue with such inept government who cannot do assigned business for whatever reason. Ultimately, King took a bold step notwithstanding challenges ahead for constitutional monarchy.
It is curiosity of Nepalese people both in country and abroad regarding recent political development. King has masked his deed of assuming executive power of country and ousting Prime Minister of country and so cabinet as democratic and constitutional and there are grounds to support it as constitution’s Article 127 activated and constitution itself has not been nullified. But such a move has created a suspicion regarding election and people’s sovereignty. Is King’s move nurture democratic practice in the country? This question is really Conundrum to answer. People have to wait till the formation of new government and its commitment for House of Representative election as soon as possible. The essence of democracy lies in people’s participation in the political system and they participate through election. Any deed that is intended to delay election or suspend it has deleterious effect to the state institution including Crown itself because election is the singular resort now left to come over problem. Since last several years our country has really a bad time in her political history and if present development is intended to edify political practices done in pseudonym of democracy and balm ailing economy and peace of the country people will hail this move. But this should not be a resort every time to delineate a way out of political crisis. Imposed political behavior can not run system for long time in democracy. It is time to realize from so called political parties and demagogues that present political development is the result of their ineptness and misdeed during these years of political practice. If they want to represent people’s interest in national politics and work for the betterment of the country, they have to edify their deeds and creeds.
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| REDSOX |
Posted
on 05-Oct-02 10:58 PM
Good Analysis.Way to go bro.Keep up ..I agreed ...they certainly edify their deeds and creeds.
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| REDSOX |
Posted
on 05-Oct-02 10:59 PM
Good Analysis.Way to go bro.Keep up ..I agreed ...they certainly need to edify their deeds and creeds.
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| Thakkar Sharma |
Posted
on 06-Oct-02 09:32 AM
Excellent analysis, Madhav. Keep it up.
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| Thakkar Sharma |
Posted
on 06-Oct-02 09:38 AM
We cannot brand the recent action of King Gyanendra as a royal coup as it was branded back in 1960. Every body should note his commitment to multiparty democracy and constitutional monarch. Moreover, the aftermath events that are taking place in the country and hopefully more to come are definetely a encouraging sign to convince the people that the action taken by the king is in favor of the country and countrymen.
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| Shiva Shiva!! |
Posted
on 07-Oct-02 09:12 AM
Hello Madhav ji,
I am impressed of your writing. How you are analyzing the current political situation of Nepal?
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| SIWALIK |
Posted
on 07-Oct-02 04:28 PM
Monarchy can be a legitimizing force for democracy. I hope Spain's example will be followed. But biting too much at this stage could be disastrous down the line. The best option is to handover the governance to a representative cabinet ASAP.
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| kalankisthan |
Posted
on 07-Oct-02 07:02 PM
hahahahahhahahahah...
Naam sunerai haas uthyo
Thakkar sharma re
hahahahahaha
hasaayo hai malai
Thakkar
hahaha
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| Thakkar Sharma |
Posted
on 13-Oct-02 05:12 PM
Oh sathi Kalankisthan thank you for your complement. I believe you must have noticed that there are so many outside who have gotten Thakkar some time in their life. I dedicate this name to those all who are in this category. Wait and see there will be more thakkars coming. You know democracy in Nepal also got a Thakkar. You will see the name of Sher Bahadur Deuba will change to Thakkar Bahadur Deuba and so on so. What I suggest you reserve your laughs for those Thakkars who will join in the days to come. I am afraid some day you might consider yourself changing your name to Thakkar ........
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| kalankisthan |
Posted
on 13-Oct-02 05:44 PM
Thakkar Jyu.
I agree life is full of thakkar, and everyone has to get thakkar atleast once in their life time. I myself got bunch of thakkars in my life, and i can really comprehend. If I keep on getting thakkar like this, there is no wonder I will change my name to "KalankisthanThakkar khaanepaani waala".
About the thakkar gotten by Nepali democracy, I couldn't even feel a 'jhatka', thakkar ko ta kurai chodidiu. First thing I didn't understand was, why was Democracy such an important thing? Did democracy really affect me? No sir.
Before so-called Democracy and after so-called Democracy, nothing has really been changed. My Parents still struggled the way they did before democracy, and I am still frustrated the way i was before. Why is "Government by the people" so much improtant, if it doesn't change me and my family in 10 years -- forget about change, it didn't even give me a ray of hope? Did the democracy stopped curroption? Did the democracy change "naatabaad", "kripabaad", crime, "maanpari", economical condition of nepal? No sir.
Before Democracy, we were going down, and after 12 years of democracy, we are still going down. The only thing that has changed so far is the velocity. Before it was lets say 20 miles per hour (the rate of our downfall), and this time around it is 50 miles per hour.
I really think the people affected by "thakkar" to democracy is only those people, who were somehow connected to the "chyau umrya jasto" democratic party. I don't know sher bahadur, I am not koirala, I don't care about Chand, I dislike alcoholic paanwala (who said I am bachelor but I am not a virgin -- in his major interview to the National newspaper), I am not from Tarai, I am not inclined to communism, I don't belong to the race of Ganeshman, Noone in my family is Army, I am not Royalist, and i am not worried about thakkar to democracy. Democracy means nothing to me, from my experience, it is nothing more than "Government by the people", where government only cares about 'us' people in the time of Election. If this was the Democracy we wanted, I'd rather opt for dictatorship, coz i know it won't do a "$hit" to me.
About Sher Bahadur, I said earlier, If Sher Bahadur is the leader we have to follow, I'd rather take a break, and go for a nap. Sher bahadur will never be thakkar but bhukampa. He has to get nervous and shake and rattle 24/7.
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| Thakkar Sharma |
Posted
on 13-Oct-02 09:55 PM
Oh Kalankisthan, You are the man. I 100 percent agree with your feelings and views. Now you should have understood why my name is Thakkar and who do I represent.
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