HELLO NEPAL

The Kathmandu Post Letter to the Editor 20 January 2013 I am pretty sure that most of the common people like me would be wondering why the President decided to let the major political parties forge consensus to form a national unity government on their own rather than using strict measures to complete the process based on the principle of democratic necessity at this politically and constitutionally critical juncture. Being the patron of Interim Constitution, is it not his responsibility to emancipate the nation from the current political stalemate and constitutional crisis rather than simply passing the “ball” to the parties’ court (“Prez puts the ball in parties’ court” January 16, Page 1) ? If the current situation isn’t timely addressed, the achievement of Second Jana Andolan might go down the drain. Considering this, what is the first President of Republic Nepal waiting for?   Rai Biren Bangdel Maharajgunj, Kathmandu on line jobs    

 The Himalayan Times 18 January 2013  T he decision of opposition parties including NC and UML to hit the streets beginning January 19, as reported in “Opposition parties set to hit the streets to oust govt” (THT, January 16), to oust Dr. Baburam Bhattarai (BRB) led coalition government will remain nothing but to offering him more time to stay in PM’s chair rather than ousting him. This will remain a fruitless effort of the opposition and bear no concrete result in their plan considering at this time the degree of enthusiasm of the general people. They (the people) are tired of both the government and the opposition who completely betrayed their sentiments, hardships and difficult days with the sky-rocketed market prices, acute power shortage, and acute shortages of drinking water, complete loss of law and order situation. If we carefully looked in the past, what did the opposition do to fight with the government to control and minimize these difficulties? Because of

The Kathmandu Post Voice of the People 15 January 2013 IT is shame on the that he is interfering in the on-going police investigations against Maoist cadres who brutally murdered journalist Dekendra Thapa eight years ago during the so- called people’s war against the state (“PM Bhattarai ‘orders’ halt in investigations” January 9, page 1) . He should listen to the accused murderers who had already confessed to the crime during police interrogation and now they deeply regret their heinous act. They seem ready to face any punishment coming their way. Had the PM publicly announced that the investigation process would be carried out by the state machinery in an impartial manner rather than blocking the interrogation process, his tainted image of being arrogant, egoistic, self-centred and stubborn chief executive would have been washed clean. Instead, terming the investigation as a farce being hatched to derail the peace process only makes him look like an idiot. Rai

The Himalayan Times 11 January 2013   It was very unfortunate but not surprising to read the news report “Cadres’ arrest will affect peace process, says PM” (THT, Jan. 9, Page 1) that was directly related to the brutal murdering of journalist Dekendra Thapa eight years ago in Dailekh district during Maoist’s decade long so- called people’s war against the state. Listening to the accused Maoist cadres, who had sincerely confessed during the police interrogation, they had deeply regretted for their heinous crime they had done to Thapa during their two days detention and torture and were ready to face any kind of punishment they would deserve. It could have been a good opportunity for the PM if he had publicly encouraged the interrogation process being carried out by the state machinery in an impartial manner rather than blocking the interrogation process interpreting in a wrong way. With this irresponsible act, he seems missing the opportunity of improving his tainted

The Kathmandu Post Voice of the People 4 January 2013 IT was not surprising to read that the President won’t let parties slack off (“Prez won’t let slack parties sit idle: Aide” January 2, Page 3). T he President’s move to re-extend the dead-line for consensus time and again can only go for so long. How long is he to continue to act in such an ambiguous manner? Time is running out for him to emancipate the nation from the political shackles of irresponsible and insincere major political parties. They remained defiant to his calls for forging the consensus for the fifth time and might continue to do so, considering that rift between them appears to widening. How can the President be sure that parties will forge consensus to form a national unity government within the latest extended dead-line? It seems that the more time is given to the parties, the more the new proposals are put forwarded by the ruling parties, creating more mistrust and resulting in a never-endin

The Himalayan Times 4 January 2013  Among other sectors, education, which is heavily funded sector, has been badly affected by the political instability in Nepal as reported in “Political crisis hurts education” (THT, January 2, Page 5). It is very unfortunate to see the so-called big parties still found squabbling for their self-centred political interests neglecting the plight of the common people for their hardships and putting the nation in political and constitutional vacuum. What a shame is this for them to be so irresponsible and insincere towards the nation and its people? The President has been indecisive in solving the political impasse and continues to extend the deadline for these selfish political parties to forge consensus on finding a common candidate for the next PM. How long does he continue to give such grace period for them who did not seem interested to resolve the political crisis? The politicization in almost all the sectors owing to the politica