HELLO NEPAL

The Himalayan Times 21 February 2019 Poor law and order It seems that maintaining law and order situation in the country has been a challenging job for the government and its concerned authorities, considering the increasing number of heinous crimes carried out by anti-social elements. Common people feel that the government and its concerned authorities have completely failed to nab the culprits and put them behind bars. Culprit(s) of Nirmala Pant’s seven month-old rape and murder case is/ are still at large. Likewise, other culprits involved in other rape and murder cases in different parts of the country are freely roaming around.  Another shocking and dreadful incident occurred in Mithila Municipality of Dhanusha district on February 23. An 11-year old girl was raped before being murdered “Eleven-year old gang-raped before she was burnt alive” (THT, Feb.19, Page 1). As reported, the innocent girl, who could not speak, was burnt to destroy any evidence of r...

The Himalayan Times 28 January 2019 Respect sovereign people To me, the ongoing political environment of Nepal is not favourble for bringing the desired changes in the social, economical and overall development of the nation as envisaged by the common people considering the high-handedness of the ruling party. Democracy does not mean ruling the country with high handedness on the basis of arithmetic strength in the parliament. It is the system that demands the respect of the opposition and hearing the people’s voices through their elected representatives. It is a system that should follow the universal norms and values of democracy. The Parliament in itself is not sovereign, it represents the sovereign people. The Parliament should not be a forum for some rowdy leaders to chase their own interests rather than it should be a place looking for the well being of the nation and its people. The passage of the National Health Education Bills without letting the main opposi...

The Himalayan Times 24 January 2019 Political tussle continues Nepal has been practicing its federalism for the last one year soon after the completion of three tiers of elections. Accordingly, local, provincial and federal governments are in place in line with the new constitution. Most of the three tiers of governments are in the hands of the Nepal Communist Party. The Nepali Congress could not perform well during the elections because of its intra-party feud and factionalism. Since then, the K.P. Oli led two thirds majority government is at the political helm that seems to be not performing well as per the people’s expectations.   In the mean time, it seems the ruling party does not want to bow down an inch in incorporating its own agreements made with Dr. K.C   in the past regarding the National Medical Education Bill (NMEB). The main opposition wants to see the government endorsing the bill without any deviations. This situation has invited political tu...

It is so unfortunate and sad to see the two thirds majority government's performance in the last nine months. There has been dismal amount of satisfying performance to point out at this hour besides the government seems to be protecting corrupt bureaucrats  and former and current ministers. General people have started pointing fingers to the K.P.Oli led powerful government that came into the political history of Nepal looking at its failure in controlling corruptions and punishing culprits, to capture and punish rapist and money laundering cases.

The Himalayan Times 23 August 2018 Haphazard taxation The government at the centre led by K.P Oli has completed its six months tenure with not much satisfying performances. People seem unhappy with the way the central government is running the country. Likewise, the performances of the local and provincial governments have been questioned by the local people raising the concern about the purpose of the federalism. This does not indicate the good start of the new political structure. However, the country has moved forward with the federal structure which should be gradually strengthened by winning the hearts of the people rather than undermining their voices and concerns by flexing political muscle based on the numerical numbers of lawmakers in all level of parliaments. The haphazard collection of taxes on consumable and non-consumable items by the local and provincial governments has been the talk of the town and widely criticized by all walks of life. Main oppos...

MAKE DEMOCRACY WORK It is a known fact that Nepal has experienced much political movements in the last seven decades in the name of restoring democracy. Common people, who were out in the streets, had knowingly and unknowingly listened to the political leaders with the expectation of seeing prosperous nation and better lives. These movements remained to be successful simply in terms of changing the regimes but terribly failed to consolidate the achievements, strengthen democracy and fulfil people’s aspirations. It seems now that the common people were misguided simply to support the political leaders who cleverly created the problems for their own sake. In fact, the people were wrongly motivated or instigated to fight among each other for unwanted problems created by the political parties and their leaders. So far, it seems that, until now, political leaders of different political parties have used politics to serve their own vestigial interests. It is said that powe...