Posted by: CopiCat January 8, 2008
Nepal good with king or without king? have your say
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We should respect the fears and sentiments expressed by our freinds in Sajha. We love our country very much.  I believe there is no Nepali who wants to see his country losing its sovereinty and identity. No one should claim of being more worried about the country and more patriotic than the other. No one is Indian, Chinese, American, King's sycophants here. We all are equally worried about our country- may it be in different forms. We all want to see our country peaceful and prosperous. We want to see our country developed. This is the bottom line.

We are presenting our views and counter views regarding amicable and peaceful transition of the present situation of the country.  Some of us are believing that monarchy is a very powerful institution because of what our country is united . Some of us, however, do believe that despite our untiring support and faith towards monarchy, the institution has betrayed us, the political process and the democracy several times. The institution itself has lost its identity and cannot do anything for the betterment of Nepal.

As earlier, I favor the second thought. Since we hate the king, his son and their behavior, who should we give our faith to? Or should we be faithful to those pigs like Kamal Thapa, Tulsi Giri, Surya Bahadur Thapa, Sarad Chandra Shad, Nepal Baba, Trishul Baba so on and so forth. Isn't it the same Kamal Thapa who polluted the Nepalese politics the most and tried to defame the multiparty democracy? How many times he changed his parties? He has the loudest voice now in the street. He is acting like a messiah to protect the king in Nepal and we are now very hurried to support him.

Some of our frens have been even saying that we actually need multiparty democracy with constitutional monarchy or ceremonial king. So far as I understand it means that the king will just be ceremonial with no power and the entire power of the state will be vested to the executive i.e the government. If it is so, why should we need the king again who will have no power at all and cannot do anything at the time when our so-called national integrity and sovereinty is at stake? Otherwise, if we want the check and balance between the executive/parliament and the king, and would like to give some power to king, how come it can be a ceremonial king? Isn't it total mess in our thoughts?

Let's suppose that the king is just the ceremonial like a toy. Probably this whould work like 30/40 years ago when we used to think the palace as another Pashupatinath Temple. Until then, not only Nepalese but all Hindus probably would regard the king as the incarnation of god and the palace as the temple. They used to believe King as a source of divine power. As it is very apparent, the situation is not like that now. Nepal has totally changed. No one wants to lose his right and likes to continue the institution which will have virtually nothing to count on.     

We have also come across with gloomy views very often. If we remove the king, Nepal will be another Sikkim and Bhutan. I have seen nothing more than that in some parts of this thread. One and only one: Another Sikkim, Another Bhutan. Why are we fighting for the democracy? Were we in total delimma? If we, by virtue of the unique reality of Nepal, need the powerful King to protect our unity and sovereinty, why do we pretend to be democratic? Why did the great people of Nepal sacrificed their lives to overthrow the Panchayat system? There was periodic election, parliament, powerful king and super powerful royalists. Next, if whatever is happening is as per the premeditated plan of so called RAW and India and on top of that we already knew all that after 3 to 5 years Nepal would be a part of India, what the hell we are doing here? Isn't is shame on us (so called educated mass) forget about innocent people who are ready to be prey anytime? Shame on us, we can forsee the future easily but can not do anything!!!!!         

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