TAKE HEED
The Kathmandu
Post
30 March 2014
TAKE HEED
Nepal’s democratic process and
changes in Nepal
seems to be guided by the external forces playing their own political games to
fulfill their vested political interests (“Lesson from Ukraine” March
26. Page 6). This has been an open secret of Nepali politics. Now the time
has come for the internal actors to study what happened recently in Ukraine and
take lessons. I strongly suggest that our political leaders go through this
Trailokya Raj Aryal’s article and contemplate their political actions. Soon, it
may be too late.
Along these lines, I still do
not understand why and for whose interest Nepal should be federated. What was
wrong with our scientifically delineated 14 zones, five regional development regions
and 75 districts? What was wrong with the Local Self Governance Act-1999? What
was wrong with our Decentralization process that was effectively in place at
the VDC level? Instead of further
strengthening these processes, our political parties continue to talk about
federating the state.
Rai Biren Bangdel
Maharajgunj
