Misuse of PR seats

The Himalayan Times

6 January 2014

Misuse of PR seats

It is sad and unfortunate to see that most of the political parties, those are set to enter the CA hall, are engaged in intra-party conflict with regard to the selection of candidates for the PR seats which are supposed to be proportionately distributed to represent all the social groups of Nepali society. However, looking closely at the names of nominated candidates for the allotted seats, the PR seats seem to have been made for senior leaders to nominate their relatives and bootlickers. Where are the concepts of inclusiveness gone? It seems natural to oppose these immoral and undemocratic acts of the senior leaders by the dissident leaders as reported in “Bhattarai, Shrestha up the ante against Dahal” (THT, 2 Jan. Page 1).

All the senior leaders talk much about the democratic principles, its norms and values. However, they are found doing undemocratic acts creating internal conflicts and delaying the smooth political process that has been the need of the hour. The people under the PR system had voted to the parties with the assumption that the parties will nominate their candidates in accordance with the criteria set for the PR candidates. Their undemocratic acts need to be strongly deplored and they should be forced to change their immoral acts.

Even the district level cadres of these political parties are found to be engaged in clashes among the rivalry groups and padlocking and burning their local level party offices as reported in “ Six wounded in clash” (THT, 2 Jan. Page 1). These unruly acts have been sending negative messages to the common people. The second CA election was held almost six weeks ago with the assumption that the major political parties would be productively engaged in drafting the new constitution and forming the stable government honouring the people’s mandate.

Rai Biren Bangdel

Maharajgunj, Kathmandu

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