Posted by: Bennedict September 21, 2022
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edv2023,
I do not mind people having a vision, or at least a mission for visionary change. My arguments here are:
# Balen walking around with his bulldozer, can it really bring any long-term change or "dirghakalin yogdan" like you said? I am saying this because as we all know, his post as a mayor is not going to last his life time or is it? With the way politics are in Nepal, I wonder if any leaders with vision ever really lasted long in Nepal. Not even the so called "visionary" Maobadis!!
In Boston we had Thomas Menino as a mayor from 1993 through 2014. He became like quasi-father to every other Bostonian. Can any leader ever serve like that in Nepal, ever?
# There are so many factors that led to the situation that it is now. Ok I agree, some residents are lying to say that they did not have an idea of river underneath at all, but think about it, what led them to make all these up? Who are the "enablers"?? Isn't it the city itself? The city workers, employees themselves? Don't tell me we need people like Balen to show us how the bureaucracy works in Nepal now. Balen should have done some inner soul searching himself and first determine the internal faults they have as a city rather than creating the chaos and spectacle as he is doing now. To me this is just so superficial.