WEAK PRESIDENT?
The Himalayan Times
25 December 2012
25 December 2012
The people do not seem comfortable with the President’s move of
extending the deadline time and again. How can he be sure that the four
major parties, which, for the past five years were unable to forge consensus,
would forge consensus in this extended time frame? Has the President himself been made helpless
by unknown forces to act in accordance with their directives? Otherwise, why
can’t he boldly act to break the on-going constitutional dead-lock as he had used
his constitutional right to retain the then Chief of the Army Rukmand Katuwal
who was sacked by the then PM Prachand? The President is said to be the patron
of the Interim Constitution. Why can’t he then use his constitutional rights to
emancipate the nation from the so-called big parties’ political hostage?
It seems that the nation, at this time,
demands that the President should break the existing political dead-lock using
his inner conscience rather than being a weak President who holds nothing but
the Presidential chair. Otherwise, the time is running fast for him too to act and
save the nation from plunging into political confrontation and political uncertainty.
The UCPN, among other political parties, continue to win the political battle based
on their political philosophy. Otherwise, what could be the reason for keeping
changing their political stands time and again? So far, it has shown that they
continue to move ahead in their political road-map they had drawn in their
political manifest. The other parties seem loosing grounds against the Maoists’
political maneuverings.
Shushil has lost the battle of winning the PM’s chair due
to Babu Ram Bhattarai’s last minute political maneuverings as reported in “
Nepal Congress miffed at Bhattarai no end” (THT, 19 Dec. Page 1). They lost the
political battle against the UCPN(M) and will continue to loose unless they
correct their political manifest based upon BP’s political philosophy. If they
don’t, then what remains the different between them and other parties?
Rai Biren Bangdel
Maharajgunj, Kathmandu
