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The Parliamentary Diet Plan!
Our great Election Commission (EC) wallahs now think that we are better off with just 105 lawmakers in the House. The EC has sent a suggestion to the Constitution Amendment Task Force, asking for a reduction to the current 275-member House of Representatives. Currently, we have the 60-40 thing, 60% directly elected MPs and 40% from the PR quota.
If we can reduce the number of lawmakers by 50% not only in our House but in our provinces as well, then we could save at least Rs 100 crores a year in salaries, perks and other incentives and meeting bhattas and what not!
The EC goes further and tells the task force that local levels can be made non-party, whatever that means. Are we going to have a Panchayati system at the local levels and a Political Party Fist-Fight at the upper levels? Where was the EC sleeping for the past two decades?
The EC has given 21 suggestions because fewer than ten would make it look they have nothing to do right now, and further goes on to say that it would be better if the National Assembly (our Upper House) Chairman be made the Vice President. So, does that mean if our President drops dead, then the Upper House Taukey gets to be the President?
I think well, I just disagree. We need to have a President who is under the age of 65 and a VP who is under the age of 60, so that we can have these two top positions for someone who can walk at least 5 km per day without holding on to someone or getting admitted to the ICU after that. Look at our current President! He is wobbing like there is a battery up his arse and poor fellow has to make speeches standing up. Give that old geezer a comfy chair and a portable oxygen with some flavor on the side!
The EC thinks that citizens who are 21 and up should be eligible to stand for election for the House of Representatives. I say, make it 25. We need at least someone who has a Bachelor's degree or 5 years of professional experience in some work for non-degree ones, be it a driver, a carpenter, a dancer or a butcher, who cares, but we need people who have a college degree or have worked for some time to be our lawmaker, unlike some of our old school sadak chaap never-worked-in-life buffoons!
We can just take some tips from the US system. Why waste our time drinking chiya and getting bhattas at the EC to come up with your own formula? Make it 25 for our lower house and 30 for the Upper House, like their Congress and the Senate. Right now, it is 25 and 35 in ours, why change it when it's going all fine?
As for our PM, Chief Ministers, and Upper House, make it 35 at least, and for the VP, 35 and the President, make it 40 to get in! We don't want a 30-year-old President, do we? Unless he or she is a billionaire and wants to donate all the wealth to the State Treasury, maybe!
The EC thinks that we should only have 77 lawmakers under the direct election (FPTP) and 28 lawmakers from the proportional representation (PR) quota. Well, it will save us tons of crores if we can do that. I have always been against the PR thing, but if this thing has to stay then instead of quotas according to caste, religion or anything, just make it plain and simple. Or maybe a lottery system for the voiceless, MARGlNalized and the disadvantaged instead of just going by caste and or looks!
I agree with the EC's suggestion of getting rid of the PR thing in our provinces and what about our Upper House (the National Assembly)? Are we keeping the 59 seats? Why not hold direct elections for the Upper House as well?
The best way forward would be to have a US-style governance. We make the President a directly elected chief executive of the country. He or she runs the country for four years, is the commander-in-chief and has the power to push the button. Well, we don't have any nukes but with some uranium in town, we should build one and only one so that we don't get bullied too much by our two big chimekis and also claim our seat in the World Nuclear Club as well!
I think we just need to have 77 lawmakers in our Lower House, and 77 more in our Upper House. And for provinces, it's time to get rid of this great 'rip off the public' natak made possible in the name of federalism but just a cool trick played on us by the same old chor political parties, the Congress UML Maoist (CUM) netas who wanted to get their jholeys paid by the State.
As for the local levels, I see no problem with political parties battling it out instead of making it a truly independent scene, but we don't need a quota system at the local level. I think we just need to have a three-member committee for our wards. The winner takes the chairperson seat, the runner-up becomes the vice-chair, and the third-place winner becomes the treasurer. And you need two signatures to use the funds! Maybe that will make it more transparent and they can be held accountable if they do something fishy!
It will be difficult to amend our constitution for now because even if the RSP has an almost two-thirds majority in the House, they have no one in the Upper House. The National Assembly chairperson is Prachanda's brother for Mao's sake! And the Upper House is filled with the same old CUM netas!
Let's hope that the RSP government will get two-thirds everywhere in 2031 and then they can finally amend the constitution for good! And then, we will have only a President and his cabinet secretaries running the country while our lawmakers can focus on their own constituencies because they were voted just to do that in the first place and not become our ministers and lose focus or provide more funds to their constituencies while ignoring the rest of the country, like our old school chor netas did in the past!
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