Posted by: Shantipriya February 12, 2011
Egypt's revolution VS so called Jana Andolan -II
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Some Nepali folks seem so eager to relate so called Janaandolan II with current revolution of Egypt. They need to understand how Egypt’s revolution is fundamentally different than so called Jana andonlan –II.

  1. 12 points agreement, –was signed in Delhi not Nepal, so  Jana Andolan –II is not indigenous movement, as the plan is hatched by Indian and SPAM war lords just to throw the king, but not to have true democracy.
  2. People who took to the street at that time, largely due to fear and coercion of Maoists. Nor majority of them were educated. Educated youth especially the middle class remain inactive including leader of major political leaders such as K P Bhattarai, Sailaja Acharya, Pradeep Giri and so on, who spent their entire life for democracy and freedom.  
  3. Recent wikileaks clearly stated how India heavily invested for the andolan.
  4. Most importantly, we can judge the present situation,- where is democracy? Where is constitution? –how come 601 revolutionary democratic people completely failed to draft a constitution?

I can go and add on more points, but all I am trying to say is so call political movement of 62/63 was conducted at the behest of India, and failed political leaders just wanted to take revenge with the king.

 Let us look at the Egypt’s movement.

  1. It was started with social networking sites, used by educated youth-unlike nepali’s uneducated college dropped out leaders.
  2. No external forces was behind it, even US the powerful nation was initially not in a favor to remove Mubarak, in the end it had to support the people, not its long time allies Mubark.
  3. After Mubark stepped down (kind of fled), patriotic force army took over as a transitional force and army promised they will facilitate democratic transition, unlike in the case of Nepal, alleged dictator king, ironically, democratically left the palace with dignity, and  after that bunch of tyrants took over the power.

 Even though we have yet to see how this revolution will transpire in future, but certainly it is not like Nepal’s ignorant’s movement (called it whatever) sponsored by India. We are just a victim of our political incompetency and greater conspiracy.

In our case, People are betrayed big time yet we like to be politically correct, oh yeah hurry we have dethrone 240 old monarchy… if that would have been any achievement our quality of life would have got improved , 5 years is long time in 21st century.  So are we really better now –if so, how /what we have now?

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