“People have witnessed the exploitations of monarchy since centuries. They have seen our country going nowhere under their hundreds of years of rule”

This is a platitudinous line we are constantly assailed with in order to get us to believe erroneously that monarchy is evil. What “exploitations” are you talking about?

I have never heard of kings, past or present, who condemned people in their millions to rigorous labour camps a la Kim Jung Ill, Moa tse tung, Polpot and Prachanda. I have never heard of kings who killed people just because they belonged to a different ethnic group a la Saddam Hussein and Hitler.

Empirical evidences prove that monarchs have always been moderate in their disposition and benevolent at heart. The biggest despots and killers have always been commoners that rose to power and never the monarchs. 

Besides, the period (230 years) that you talk about was a whole different era altogether that was fraught with wars and great human sufferings beyond measurement. Despite that, the Nepali monarchs never really put Nepalis through the same kind of miseries and pains that many barbarous dictators around the world in that period are known to have afflicted on their people.

It is highly disingenuous to compare today’s world to an era when native Americans in America or for that matter aboriginies in Australia were slaughtered like animals. That was an era when slavery was a legalized practice and people were bought and sold like cattle. These are things that would be absolutely unimaginable today.  

You can’t really blame the kings if there were no internet, computers, monile phones, cable tv etc back in those days. They did not exist in other countries too. They are just a recent phenomenon. Seriously, since when did we have the internet? Not until mid 90s.

Yes, the royal family was the most privileged but isn’t a president or a prime minister? Do we hate them just because they are a privileged lot? Look at Girija and Prachanda. They have become at least a million times more powerful than the king ever was as a ceremonial head. If we were “scared” of the limited powers that the king enjoyed as a ceremonial head, we have exchanged him for bloodthirsty monsters with unbridled powers. Talk about irony. What ever Girija and Prachanda enunciate becomes a law. They decide single handedly when the CA elections ought to take place flouting the anti-people interim constitution they themselves wrote. After having squandered almost 2 billion rupees that this poor nation can ill afford, they have again deferred the date for CA elections for the third time.

Seriously, what did we expect from these corrupt netas? They have already proved us beyond a shred of doubt that all that they care about is their own selfish interests. They will just let the nation bleed to death as long as it’s not them who has to suffer but the people.

At least, the monarchy in Nepal gave us the nationhood. There would be no Nepal on the world map had it not been for the work and efforts put in by the monarchy. What are the contributions of Girija, Prachanda, Baburam Bhattarai, Lilamani Pokhrel, Bamdev Gautam, Govidna raj Joshi, Chiranjivi Wagle et al to Nepal? Nepal under these corrupt netas has hit a rock-bottom.

Remember, the monarchy safeguarded our sovereignty through all these years from all sorts of threats. That was a period when the whole world was engulfed by colonialism and people were oppressed and treated like animals by their colonial masters.