Unprecedented threat to Nepal Sovereignty

Revolution for what? Killing of several thousands of people in the name of the so-called people’s war to serve what purpose?

These
are some of the Himalayan questions that Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa
Kamal Dahal must answer or he is answerable to these pressing
questions. Neither he can escape nor can he shift the blame onto the
heads of the others as is his habit.

Analysts
claim that Prachanda’s revolution was just a pseudo one. They further
add that the entire Maoist paraphernalia in the name of the people’s
war served in an oblique manner the special place, by extension the
country, where the top-notch of the leadership resided in a secret
manner for well over eight plus years.

Pushpa
Kamal Dahal’s government has agitated and to some extent excited the
tender brains of the nationalists, if any left in the crowd of the
many, by “secretly” allowing the Indian Intelligence Agency to erect
henceforth a check-post at the Kathmandu’s International Airport.

Shame
on us all that this news has come to us through the kind courtesy of
one Indian daily, the Panjab Keshari dated January 17, 2009.

The
Indian news paper authenticates its grand revelation by quoting Nepal’s
minister for Supplies, Rajendra Mahato who is perhaps now in Delhi for
reasons unknown to us.

The
paper writes quoting Minister Mahato as saying, “The Nepal government
has decided to allow the presence of the Indian security forces at the
TIA for the security of those passengers who travel by Indian
airliners”.

Minister
Mahato is one of the leaders of the Nepal Sadbhavana Party who is
concurrently looking after the ministry of Supplies and Commerce.

The paper further quotes the Nepali minister and says, “This directive has been issued by the Nepal government right this week”.

Understandably,
Nepal’s revolutionary Prime Minister is paying the debt for his “care”
taken by the Indian establishment while in the so called hibernation
during the people’s war.

Now
that the government has already allowed the Indian establishment to
create a post at the TIA, what if the China, Pakistan, Quatar, Ettihad,
Thai, Biman, and other similar airliners that land in Kathmandu demand
similar facilities from the Nepal government? Will the revolutionary
government extend its similar support to those airline companies?

Nepal
has been cheated. Nepal has been deceived. Nepal is the loser. Nepal’s
territorial integrity and national sovereignty has been exposed to an
unprecedented threat.

Will the nationalist camp inside the Maoists party take up the case strongly? We doubt!

It
is time that the nationalists of this country commit suicide so that
the greater evils that are yet to take shape may not disturb their
peaceful brains any more.

Nevertheless, analysts prefer to allow the government some time to clarify its stance over the issue that has been raised here.

With strong inputs from Ghatana Ra Bichar dated January 21, 2009.