Posted by: Madhav February 3, 2005
Let's get organized for ANA 2005 and protest against King
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The opinions are divided: against, pro and neutral on what is going on in Nepal right now. Some have suggestion that ANA is not a political organization. These concerns are expected and understandable. But, COLLEAGUES let me make one thing very clear that kings have been ruling Nepal since the 18th century. I have not read in history that neither of them were committed for Nepalese people. Nowhere in the world, King is driving and motivating force for the democrac, peace and development. Therefore they are kept under restrict rules and regulation. We failed to to that in 1990. When state's coercive power is in control of monarch and monarch can stop state functioning like this, I don't see democracy there. We never had democracy. The struggle for democracy is imminent. Those of you who expressed pro-king opinion and criticised the political practices since the last 14 years in embroiling in corruption and failing providing jobs and relate that to the Maoist insurgency, you just cannot use teleology and relate that span of time to the current political crisis. Those 14 years were the years people had opportunity to express their conccerns supressed since the begining of the inception of Nepal as a country. The root problem is having Monarchy. My idea is very simple. I believe in supremacy of people and want people achieve the highest position in the state from their struggle and credentials they build in thier society so that the coming generation if not we can expect to achive that positon. The King coup d'eta is a blocakade advancing to that direction and we need to protest against this. Colleagues, though ANA is not a political organization, we can protest on the sideline not distrubing thier program. WE WILL GET ORGANIZED FOR THE CAUSE OF PEOPLE, BY PEOPLE AND FOR PEOPLE.
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