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The Himalayan Times
31 March 2016
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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

http://epaper.thehimalayantimes.com/Details.aspx?id=8484&boxid=143041&dat=3/31/2016

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