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Nepal’s former Crown Prince Paras Shah is back in the news
with a big bang.
If reports are to be believed then the former crown prince
directed his guns towards the daughter and son-in-law of none other than the
caretaker Deputy Prime Minister Sujata Koirala.
Paras, reports reveal, wanted to take revenge with the
Koirala family for abolishing the institution of monarchy. He held late Prime
Minister Girija Prasad Koirala responsible for the current sorry state of the country
and also for uprooting the 240 years old institution of monarchy.
The incident took place mid-night Saturday December 1, 2010,
at the Chitwan Jungle Resort.
Paras Shah has already accepted the allegation.
A highly infuriated Sujata Koirala who is currently in
Bangkok-when was informed by her family members, immediately made a phone call
to Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and Home Minister Bhim Rawal and demanded
immediate detention of the former prince.
Unconfirmed reports have it that the Prime Minister has
already ordered the security agencies to arrest the former crown prince.
Sujata’s daughter Melani Koirala is married to a Bangladeshi
national, Ruwel Chaudhary.
The incident took place when Ruwel at around 09:00 PM met
Paras Shah at the Bar of Tiger Tops resort.
After holding friendly talks with Ruwel Chaudhary for some
time, Paras requested him to go for a Jungle outing. With a frightened Chaudhary
rejecting the offer, Paras all of a sudden took out his pistol and pointed it towards
Chaudhary, the Nagarik daily reports.
“I will finish all those who were involved in bringing this
republican order…foreigners are at the helm of the country which was painfully united
by our ancestors”, he said, writes Nagarik.
In a statement issued after the sad incident, Paras Shah
claims that he had indeed fired bullets as he could no longer tolerate the repeated
insult of his country.
“While I was having my dinner, I could see some foreigners were
also sitting around the same place’, says Paras and adds, ”They- one
Bangladeshi and an Indian national, came towards me and we began holding
discussions.”
“They began criticizing my past activities, the institution I
represented and my county”, the statement quotes Paras as saying.
“I tried my best to convince them but after failing to do,
so I preferred to go out of the room”.
“After half an hour or so as I could see none in the area and
as I could not tolerate the repeated insult of my country, I fired one round of
bullet”, he admits.
“Yes, I accept that I had fired the bullet but it was not
pointed at any one”, concludes Paras Shah.
Question now is whether Paras Shah should have fired the
pistol? Question also is that can a Nepali national tolerate the insult of his
own motherland?
Yet, Paras Shah should have in his wisdom controlled his
temperament. He failed to exhibit his maturity.
Associated with this sad event is whether any tom dick and
harry foreigners be henceforth allowed to insult mother Nepal and should the
Nepali nationals listen to such insulting words attentively?
It remains to be seen how this event gets amicably settled.