Posted by: newuser February 18, 2005
Thinking Impartially and sensibly
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Mr. Salambambi, I got your point. You need action and only your courageous king Gyanendra can take actions. And you want me to accept what Gyanendra has done as the best thing for Nepal. Sorry mate, I do not agree at all.I cannot put a cent of my stake on Gyanendra. He is worse then the politicians to say the least. If I rate politicians as -2, Gyanendra is -3. You claim to be representing 24 million Nepalese.Ha ha ha ha. I hope you have not counted me because although I am one of the general public, I do not fall to your category. I am not some one who chants Jay Jay Maharaj. I dislike mandales because they pray the king. Hamro Raja pran bhanda pyaro chha. Atleast Neta ka puchhar harule hamro neta pran bhanda pyaro chha ta bhandainan ni. Neta le Ma Bishnu ko awatar hu bhaneko ta sunidai ni. Ani Neta le Bideshi sanga matra haat milauchhu swadeshi sanga haat milaunu hudaina bhaneko ta sunienani. ''If we can live for 15 yrs of total corruption and chaos, I dont mind waiting 3 months or 1 or 3 yrs. May be action is what we needed instead of good bhasan like netas and yours.'' It doesn't sound logical to accept to live in corruption and chaos for 3 more years because we lived in that situation for 15 years. I do not like complecancy by comparing life for the negatives. I prefer to change things for positive instead of agreeing to pursue negatives for more and more time. You do not mind but I mind, and thats the difference between you and me. I dont think it's sensible to think if politicians exploited the condition of the country, King also has to exploit. And, tapaile Netako Bhasan bhane pani j bhane pani, the best solution of the Maoists insurgency is dialogue and negotiations. If the palace can agree for constiuent assembly election, then they will certainly come to dialogue. Because they know, the senseless war between the rebels and the government forces is taking none of the sides towards victory. This is worsening the situation only. Aba rahyo constituent assembly ko kura . I don't think you have tried to understand what is constituent assembly. So first read this: Constituent Assembly A Constituent Assembly is a body elected with the express and limited purpose of drafting, and in some cases, adopting a constitution. It may refer to either of the following: The National Constituent Assembly formed in 1789 during the French Revolution The Russian Constituent Assembly formed in February 1917 during the Russian February Revolution The Constituent Assembly of Italy, formed on 13 July 1946 following the referendum on republic or monarchy, dissolved four months after the adoption of the Constitution, on 12 May 1948. How did the above constituent assembly worked? What was the process? I will give a brief account in my postings in coming days. But do not think it's a communist idea to have a constituent assembly election. The process is very democratic provided the voting process is free and fair and remember it is just for drafting a new constitution not for estabilishing a republic state by overthrowing monarchy or absolute ruler. The whole idea is to formulate a constitution by the memeber of the constituent assembly who are elected by the people which implies that people are directly involved in making their country's constitution. The people elect a set of persons who are responsible for drafting a new constitution and once that has been drafted, their role is finished. However, constiuent assembly is not something that should worry a popular king supported by '24 million Nepalese'. The King, political parties and maoists all can sit in a round table and decide about how many constiutent assembly seats should be provisioned, who will be elligible to file candidature and how the whole process will be completed. It's all about negotitions. Each candidate can present his vision on the drafting of constitution and whichever candidate's idea the majority of voters are convinced at will win assembly seat and thus play his part on the making of constitution. There is no Mahabharat at all. And in this case also, the King may set a condition of constitutional monarchy as a minimum point of compromise. And you may agree to have these elections only after peace and stability is restored in the country- in few years time. Maobadi have not demanded that these elections must be held within this month or in this particular year. They are only asking other parties(pakchhya) to accept to hold these elections. What the maoists want from a new constitution is just a limitation in the monarch's power. The 2047 contitution gave him unprecedented power and so they want to restrict his power in a new constitution. Thats it. And they are not saying that the King should agree their own constitution. They are saying-let the people decide. So whats wrong with their demand?? If the people want the King to be limited from unprecedented power, whats wrong for him to be limited? There's queen elizabeth readily accepting to perform ceremonial job in Britain, why can't king G accept this? And there's every probability that the people might vote for more constituitonal power to the King. For as Salambambi said 24 million people support the King's move. So why scared of constituent assembly? I firmly believe that not any one side of the Nepali political spectrum can fix the current problems single handedly. No one side can defeat the rest of the sides. So a compromise must be made. And that can be a constituent assembly election. Does Gyanendra have the courage to tell maoists that he can agree to discuss constituent assembly if they agree for immidiate ceasefire and come for dialogue? Maoists also need a safe landing. They also need some thing as an achievement for their decade long insurgency. At least if they can say to their cadres- look we have created the chance for holding constituent assembly election, we have won something ; then they would be able to come for dialogue. otherwise would they forfeit all of their power they have garnered in these 10 years just to accept the King as an unprecedentedly powerful monarch? Would they hand over their arms and surrender to the Royal Nepalese army for nothing? To expect this is just a childish day dream. Guys lets try to be pragmatic.
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