Dear all,
Here is a thought on the
political situation written by a general Nepali analyzing the situation which I
think people should be aware of. So I am passing it on to the people I know and
I can. The term "I" quoted from here refers to the man who wrote it
"Mr. Rajman Shrestha".
I thought I can share my understanding of the crisis to my
friends and then forward it to maximum Nepalese as far as possible. There might
be various view points on that between us. This is one amongst them. PLEASE READ IT ONCE.
GIVE A SECOND THOUGHT ON THAT. AND IF YOU DONT AGREE, IT'S YOUR RIGHT NOT TO.
BUT I BELEIVE MANY OF YOU WHO WILL READ THIS MAIL WILL CERTAINLY GET CLEAR ABOUT
MANY THINGS. And in due course, I'd be grateful to get your opinions
as well. This way we can interact and start to think about the country more seriously.
UNTIL AND UNLESS WE START A STEP, NO THING BIG WOULD BE ACHIEVABLE. Believing on
this, I am sharing my opinion. "As we see the situation in
would think that the problem lies between the King, seven Political parties,
and Maoists. And why? What each of them wants? We'd find answers for that also.
One may say political parties want full-fledged democracy. Similarly Maoists
want the communism, and King wants to reestablish Panchayat or something like
that in other form. It may sound weird to you at first, but I see this crisis
incompletely other way. This is not any kind of conflict between Nepalese themselves.
This is something between
and
It's a grand and interesting game. At the same time, highly challenging for
both the states.
Every one of us knows the
Indian approach of trying to dominate others, especially the neighboring
countries. Defense and foreign affairs related decisions of
new about it, right? Which country in the SAARC except
other neighbors?
Mentioning these issues just to rethink on
us go to what's there between
and
Care to see it through big brother's side.
rate has reached around 7.5% which is one of the best in world today.
largest market in the world in terms of population. Foreigners are seeing
age and investing here rapidly. Bottom line is-
people will invest in
if basic infrastructure is not there? How much investments would be there in agricultural
industry if outsiders don't see basic irrigation facilities in the field? In
other way, when other area is developing, what about the large Indian farmer population?
When will they prosper if irrigation is not there? And most importantly, energy
is vital for all development- industries, technology and everything.
capable of producing the required amount.
has successfully taken control over
already started to have the benefit.
out of it but at the cost of its sovereignty.
Now comes
richest in water resource having potential of large amount of energy. Enough
energy to cater
need for industrialization and irrigation and clean drinking water for eastern
more than that). For that,
can have straight business deals with
please pay. But no!
all those in the way they got from
in any hydro projects that will be built in
something out of it- lot less value than what we deserve. Since history
trying for this and as it was obvious for them to get refusal. In the mean
time, foreigners wanted to invest in Hydro projects in
manipulation in rivers will lead to flood in
were cancelled.
didn't stop. They wanted to get the resources according to their desire. When
they came into games with long vision. What I interpret the game could possibly
be as such- change the non-cooperative government of
be ready to sell the resources of the country for some money. And if required,
will be ready to sell the whole country.
the royal family is in power. This is because for the royals,
only place in the world where they will get highest degree of respects and they
would never sell the country. For that,
instill democracy in 2046 and implanted corrupted people in the government.
According to the plan, some leaders of ours sold out rivers and lands during
the 15 years. That we all know.
Now
those dogs. For that, how to make
shortest period? So that
will come down on the ground with knees. There won't be any other option
remaining for
turn towards
and beg them to utilize our own resources, and give some riots to feed Nepalese
twice a day. Attack on the source of economy was the simplest route towards bringing
down. And then something happened out of blues. The Maoists were born in
western
hub of ayurvedic medicine and one of
under Maoists control and no one knows how much of “Yartsa gunbu†(Caterpillar fungus) is smuggled from
there every year. Country's revenue is going in vain. And let us recall, it was
Girija's tenure and whole
knows how Maoists flourished in no time. Besides that, major objective of
giving birth to Maoists was to attack the spinal of
things happened accordingly.
broke and got trapped into the crisis we are seeing today.
Now please don't doubt on who
gave birth to Maoists.
was the first to call Maoists as terrorists when
it as insurgents. After that, US hit-listed Maoists of Nepal in top ten among the
world terrorists.
government never called them terrorists those days. And in many cases, we have
seen Maoists leader making rounds to
in the same fashion as Girija and his daughter. The recent meeting between the parties
and Maoists leaders occurred in
How could
arrange the facility when Maoists are terrorists? Do they want to send a
message that Lashkar-e-taiba should be entertained by governments of various
nations? And surprisingly, nowadays Indian media do not write the word "terrorists"
for Nepalese Maoists. The respected word given by them these days is "
This is all happening because
of the “slavery†mentality
possesses due to nearly 200 years of British rule.
Anyways, now let us come to the
major issue. After knowing all these, I am not in a condition to agree that the
dispute in
is for democracy. What I believe is it is for nationality. It is for saving the
nation. It is for raising the nation with what we have. It is for replying back
to all those who try to play with us. Now, it's up to your intellect to
identify who is working for what. What the King is doing, parties are doing,
and Maoists are doing. It'll be a very appreciable opinion if you say what
those pancheys are doing again here? We should not forget that democracy is
nature's law. When you are born, you come along with your freedom. No force can
stop you for that. Let's see the cause and what's happening around. Democracy
within the boundary is so important? Or democracy in a country will be there
when a country will be there? Let all Nepalese get together and stop the
external force for some time when
position from where no force would be able to bring it down. Democracy is
always there. When the Nepalese can change the government in 2046, the same
Nepalese can change the government again in 2066. And if required, forever free
Nepalese could change the system around the world. We don't have to doubt in
our capability. But the current need is not "restore democracy" as
Current need for each and every Nepali is to "save and raise the nation".
When
envoy to
statement related to
internal politics last week, whole
ambassador. This is something good we
need to learn from Indians. When
are repeatedly trying to interfere our internal matter, our corrupted media (do
I have to name the media which have bosses of Non-Nepalese origins? Or you find
it yourself) is not tired of singing their songs everyday. The media is responsible
for creating a pessimistic environment in the nation. People are not protesting
those external interferences which are vital in present. Restoring democracy is
not the issue as far as I understand. What if democracy is restored tomorrow immediately?
Same old faces who tried to help the neighbor more than own country itself will
be back to power. And the process of losing the nation's independency which has
been stopped temporarily through king's move will get momentum again.
But if
pause that external force for some more time, its strength will be minimized.
Many things can happen within few years. Zest is- country first! Now, If you
don't agree on this, I m open to have your opinion. If you feel that there is
some logic in what I have said, please forward it to as many Nepalese as
possible. There is nothing good happening to you within 24 hours or 3 days or 1
week or so forth. But only God knows, long term benefits could be there.
Thank you
Rajman Shrestha