Not to be tolerated
The Himalayan Times
15 June 2012
The decision of the incumbent caretaker
government led by Dr. Babruram Bhattarai (BRB) to provide lifelong perks and
benefits and other facilities to VIPS including former prime ministers, Chief
Justices, former speakers and home ministers from the state coffer has drawn
people’s concern. What good reasons forced him to take such unpopular and
unwise decision at a time when he himself is merely a care taker Prime
Minister? Why he decided to attack on the state coffer when the country is
economically bleeding with billions of money incurred on the recently dead
Constitution Assembly (CA)? Was he thinking for himself after he becomes ex-PM?
Was not it the indication of poor mentality of such a learned man?
It was not surprising to see Mohan Baidya
faction staging protest against the government’s decision as reported in
“Misuse of state coffers” (THT, June 12, Page2) and threatening to continue
their protest if the government did not roll back its June 10 decision. But,
the opposition parties, who were opposing every political decision of BRB led
government and are supposed to be in the forefront to strongly oppose the
government’s decision, have surprisingly kept mum. It is not easy to understand
Nepal’s opposition parties’ political system.
Looking at BRB’s political background who
fought for 10 year long people’s war to liberate the nation and its people from
social, economical and political hegemony of so called feudalists and
capitalists, general public had great expectation from him that he would be the
ideal PM for new Nepal. But, he completely failed to fulfil
people’s such expectations and made Nepal more worst. Maximum hours of load
shedding, double digit inflation, shortages of cooking gas, no-piped water, deteriorating
law and order situation and existing impunity system are the common indicators
of his ten month long premiership. Time is running out fast for him to improve
his blurred political image in the coming days.
Rai Biren Bangdel
Maharajgunj, Kathmandu
