Posted by: loratadine April 26, 2008
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peace brother,

first i would strongly recommend you to ignore the hardliners' opinions and increas the threshold of tolerance. you wont find ppl of same level (i am sure you know what i meant) for the healthy discussion. What more do you expect from the citizens who are already being half plagued by divisive politics. Even from this election we have seen that there is a huge mass of ppl who supports YCL as well as similar madhesies groups which are affiliated by major political parties of terai.
No body is trying to bridge the gap between terai and madhesh, rather everybody is following the mantra once used by English (divide and rule).

I still remember, after democracy was thrown to public as if we throw stale roti to dogs, sad-bhawana party started to widen the gap between pahade and madheshies with their slogan (Terai hamara hai, pahadiyo! pahad me jao..  something like that). I was young then,  still trying to learn politics.. but old enough to know that they were abusing human sentiments for the personal and short term benefits. Now, terai is almost in the state of civil war type situation. Last time i visited there was almost two years back, and i was able to see the hatred and anger in their eyes. What surprised me more was...  i saw same hatred and angers in  few of my classmates (i was born and raised in terai) with whom i grew. I realized that few of my classmates did not mature enough to adhere the humane characters as they grew.

Whenever we talk about problems in nepal, even a blind man can easily pin point it. And, when it comes to solutions no body will give damn about it. I don't think anybody is sincerely working on to resolves those problems. Lets not pick the problems of other parts and focus mostly in terai.

In case of Terai's problem, its very obvious, no body had time to contemplate about terai's issues when those terai's revolution was in preliminary phase. Now it has grown up so immensely.. its root has invested the heart of millions now. The hatred and anger is also there.
Somebody who loves nepal and want a single nepal would never agree with one madesh one province demand. This demand is not a legitimate demand and we all know it that it would divide every ethnic group and that will push us back another 100 years.
We should have eradicated the infection long before when sad-vawana party planted that slogan of having a "separate madesh rajya".
Major political parties were blinded then..  with their own successes and most of the leader were busy in harvesting their own fruits. They never loved nepal then.. and its really hard to put the same level of trust in them. There had been several madhesies ministers in the past.. even they turned their ears deaf to problems of terai.

I am not surprised the way maoists got success in CA election. I was expecting the same level of success for terian extremist parties. and yes, they had success. Which also explains a trend that we nepali have..   we are so innocent herd of cattles driven by few cleaver wolves..

Solution = as far as i can see, there wont be magical solution to this like most of problems in nepal. And, parties who got benefits by boiling one madesh one province issues.. even they dont want it be resolved that easily otherwise their works would look petty. They would definately want to make it as big as possible. Because politics is their profession and everybody wants job security. They are not there to seek a common ground of understanding...   Anyway, i would not want to see nepal being sri lanka and madeshies being tamil fighting for a separate nation. Somebody definitely  has to step up  to stop the trend of passing on of hatred and anger to our young generation. Religions and ethnicities are very sensitive issues. When these are mixed in politics then a simple reaction will turn into the exaggerated chain reactions. The govt. should work extensively to make the terians feel that they were not left behind... they are as equal nepali as from any other corner of nepal. Accept their valid demand.. and take strong action against any political parties that uses racial or religious matter to gain political advantage or attempt to mislead the mass based on those sensitive issues. Moist problem also gave a sense to political leaders that you are allowed to kill and torture others as long as you have a mass following you. Law and order should be enforced strongly and those involve in any crimes should be punished irrespective of their political status. If we can make king an ordinary man, then why not those corrupted and criminal leaders?


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