Should or shouldn’t
The Himalayan Times
31 August 2017
Should or shouldn’t
It
was difficult for the common people to understand whether Prime Minister Sher
Bahadur Deuba should have made remarks about the recent constitution amendment bill,
that could not get through the parliament, during a joint press conference with
his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi held in New Delhi. However, he tried to
defend his position in the Parliament by saying that it was not unusual to apprise
the national and international community of a country’s agenda “PM defends his
position in Parliament (THT, Aug. 29, Page 1). The PM further assured the House
that he had not struck any deal with anyone regarding implementation of the
constitution. If so was the case, why should someone try to make such a fuss
about it?
The
UML boss K.P. Oli, before his departure to Bangkok for his regular health
check-up, came down heavily on the PM about this issue citing that it was great
mistake made by the PM to speak about the issue that was already settled by Parliament.
Likewise, CPN-M Centre Chief Pushpa K. Dahal also expressed his dissatisfaction
over the PM’s remarks about the constitution amendment bill during his India
visit “Dahal slams PM’s remarks on statute amendment, Koshi barrage” (THT, Aug.
29, Page 4). Looking closely at the event of these political issues, one wonders
as to what political issues should be raised or not during the official visit
of head of the government needs to be detailed out and agreed upon among the
ruling parties and the opposition rather than playing blame games.
It also seems that there should some norms to
be developed to clarify about the terms “successful visit”. So far, all the
prime ministers, whoever had paid state visits to neighbouring countries, had
claimed that their visits were successful. Accordingly, PM Deuba’s claim over
his recent visit to India was successful needs to be properly analysed by
political and diplomatic experts and their findings should be conveyed to the
people. Taking a huge number of officials in such state visit costs a lot to
the state coffers which represents the people’s tax paid money. Who is
responsible to evaluate the outcome of such entourage accompanying the PM
during state visit?
Rai Biren
Bangdel
Maharajgunj
