Posted by: chanaa_tarkaari January 7, 2008
Nepal good with king or without king? have your say
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Friends,

Prakash Chandra Lohani once said in defence of monarchy that, the republic set up does not suit to our country at this time of our history, because it will create a huge power vaccume in the country. Such a vaccume could bring unprecendented chaos and may lead to disintegration and dissolution of our country. This is what happening right now. In absence of a strong leadership, who can be seen as a Sarbamanya Neta for the moment, such as Ganeshman was in 2046 revolution, we are having risk of losing our identity as a Nepalese and foreseeing worse to come ahead. This is exactly the consequence of power vaccume and leadership crisis. It is obvious to feel in such a worse period that King's ruling was better than now. However, I don't believe such a power vaccume lasts long. And therefore, we don't need to keep supporting monarchy for such a temporary cause.

We all agree that current leadership from parties are incompetent. They are not honest to country and people. I am very unhappy with their cheating attitude particulary when they declared the country republic. They might have done right job but in wrong way. They must be honest to go to CA election and dare to accept whatever be the choice of people. The CA's decision would be the only undisputed bottomline to sketch pathway to go ahead. I felt so embaraassed when Mr. Fataha Baburam was declaring in BBC that we need CA election just to rubber stamp their republic declaration and decide the date to chase away the King from our country. These are the same leaders who operate on remote control of Indian embassador, and have lost all their credibility to speak for peace and prosperous Nepal. 

My immediate reaction after the interview was like, We need Kingship for the moment because it is the only institution that stands strong for national integrety. Until there is Nepal, we have place to fight for democracy. However, lately, I am thinking that if a bunch of young leaders come in the scene to displace the current generation of rotten leadership and fill up the possibility of power vaccume, prolly, that might work excellent. The alternate of power vaccume should not be the continuation of Kingship. 

Kingship in its old format does not gonna work for better Nepal. There is nobody in the King's camp who could offer an alternate leadership with vision and hope for the people. The development process was slowed down while King was in power. Yeah I may support Kingship once again if and only if all educated King's supporters who are currently working or living abroad decide to go back Nepal to help for the troubled King. In such a case, King certainly would have a team of good people who know how to build the nation addressing the problems, how to clean the dirt left by parties and how to develop the nation fast. Otherwise, if the King is to be supported by the same Kamal Thapa, Tulsi Giri, Sharachandra Shah and company, I will say - Bye Bye, no more Kingship.

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