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WEAK PRESIDENT?

The Himalayan Times
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

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