Publicity
The Himalayan Times
31
March 2016
Publicity
Fighting against corruption has been one of
the cheapest slogans of all the political parties in Nepal. Likewise, wiping out corruption from the
country used to be one of the main manifests of Prachanda led UCPN (Marxist)
when they were outside the mainstream of politics. Soon after they joined the
parliamentary system, curbing corruption for them remained to be merely a
distant talk. Their influential leaders were found to be deeply involved in
huge amounts of irregularities. However, none of them have been so far formally
charged with corruption.
Corruption has been very much
institutionalized in Nepal. Even in the government and semi
government organizations, service seekers are compelled to bribe the concerned
officials while seeking their services. This is completely shame on the part of
the government. No concrete measures are found to be in place to punish the
culprits. Albeit, the CIAA seems to be doing its jobs, it, however, has so far
completely failed to put big fishes in its net. People are eagerly waiting to
see the CIAA catching the big ones and put them lawfully behind the bars
without wasting any more time.
Nepal has been labelled as one of the most
corrupt country in the world according to recently published Transparency
International’s annual report. It is good to know that the Chand-led Maoists
have started publicly saying that they will launch a campaign against the
corrupt and traitors “Chand-led Maoists to fight against corrupt” (THT, 29
March, Page 5). Let us hope that they will convert their slogan into action.
Rai Biren Bangdel
Maharajgunj
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