Posted by: Nepe April 3, 2007
who is the best orator in Nepalese socio-political arena...
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A spoiler of a sort. Here are some comments by an unimpressed viewer of Deuba's speech (probably written by Mrinendra Rijal-jee) delivered at Columbia University Nepal Conference some time before Jana Andolan II (on March 22, 2006). The comment is lifted from Nepal Democracy Forum (nepaldemocracy google group) From: ... To: nepaldemocracy@googlegroups.com Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 13:01:27 -0800 Subject: Re: Columbia U. Conference: Declaration, Speech etc... Deuba's speech, whoever wrote it to represent Deuba, has absolutely no sense of the crisis we are in, absolutely no sense of responsibility and guilt about it, terribly dishonest self-defense, no soul-searching and vision, guts to falsify facts and, most disappointing of all-- to those who might have expected Deuba committing to "Ceremonial monarchy"-- that he blew the hope. Deuba's first 3500 words (that is 93% of the total) are used to avoid taking responsibility to his failures, blaming others and stealing credit to "bikas" that happened during democracy. Only towards the end, he hurriedly throws two one liners (total 72 words, that is 2% of the total) that says he will "increase" internal democracy and "include clear statements concerning the past weaknesses of democratic governments in Nepal and.... political priorities for the future democratic government of the country..". Never mind. These are positive commitments. However, by not committing to "Ceremonial monarchy", Deuba disappointed the proponents of CM, I suppose. On CM, Deuba's words were: ".. The king must return to the role prescribed by the Constitution before dialogue. In fact the call of the youth for only a ceremonial role has been to be seriously discussed.." He recommends a serious discussion on CM, but expresses no commitment. The above statement of Deuba is also where I was referring to his guts to falsify facts. Our youth are calling for a "democratic republic", not "ceremonial monarchy". Almost 95 % college students voted for "republic democracy" in 2004 "mini-referendum". Just completed elections of campus student unions demonstrated the same trend and same call. Can somebody ask Dr. Mrinendra Rijal-jyu where Deuba got the data about "ceremonial monarchy" and guts to falsify what our youth are committed to ? Phataha kura gardai hidne, yaar ? (just imitating Deuba) ... ... ____
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