Posted by: Shantipriya January 14, 2011
Is 'development' itself the cause of Nepal's problems?
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In a perfect ideal world, we would not even need a system. Why we need a system?-because we need to follow certain conduct so that people in general can live their life happily and freely. This is a very concept of rule of law and governing system. So, the system has to correspond with the local socio cultural life. Borrowing a governing system from other part of the world in order to solve your own problem is not a good idea. Whatever "cracy" or " ism" we follow first thing it needs to incorporate local idea and respect the ground reality. And our ground reality is, majority of Nepali still are uneducated, our rural part is completely detached from the outer world, our rugged terrain makes our life equally difficult and our culture is diverse and complex. And NOW, our leaders have become more of a gangster than political leader, so without understanding these issue and just touting “we need democracy/federalism" for the development will not make any difference. What we need is visionary leader who should put country’s priority first, be patriotic and commanding.  I do not mind if he is autocratic or democratic. Is there any such kind of leader in current political field-NO.? Should we expect in future, will we have such leader-yes but if we continue this rotten system of democracy in the name of democracy we will never have any visionary man leading our country? I would only make two party-if possible only one party so that external power would have least influence in our governing system. Now that we have many party-external power sometime “ uchalo” maobadi, sometime madeshi, some time congress and so on..

Again, democracy is a beautiful thing if you have food on plate but ask those who suffered the most, and thanks to this democracy their plate is empty.( some lost their dad, some lost brother because of war, so lost their business because of nepal bandh, some lost their property). If our system can not help bring back their life into normalcy then what is the purpose of such system?

Democratic system is also not a one size fit model, US two party system seems totally anti democratic in front of  Westminstrial system, but think how wise they were propose two party system -no hung parliament, at least one president can rule entire 5 years, provides stability and so on..and look the system we want to follow "  for a small country like ours-605 MPS+ 45 Ministers+1000 parties-20+ federal states primarily based on ethnicity" and you call it empowerment/democracy- I call it total division of Nation and destruction of national pride and identity -almost like democratic gaijatra and where are we now since we have ganatantra? We have not moved an inch forward- 5 years in today’s competitive world is a long time. Some quack will say we still are in transition ha ha I do not think anyone want this form of democracy? do you?
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