[Show all top banners]

prajatantra
Replies to this thread:

More by prajatantra
What people are reading
Subscribers
Subscribers
[Total Subscribers 1]

Tank ojha
:: Subscribe
Back to: Kurakani General Refresh page to view new replies
 King speech's video link
[VIEWED 2219 TIMES]
SAVE! for ease of future access.
Posted on 01-31-06 10:52 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
Login in to Rate this Post:     0       ?    
 
 
Posted on 01-31-06 10:53 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
Login in to Rate this Post:     0       ?    
 

Thanks Prajatantra!
 
Posted on 01-31-06 10:59 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
Login in to Rate this Post:     0       ?    
 

Having grown up with a heavy dose of communist speeches, mainly those of Modnath Pasrit and Jibraj Ashrit, I used to think that the congressis were lousy speakers who would forget the first part of the sentence by the time they reached the last part. Seeing Maila dai's speech makes me think the congressis, despite their maile-aba-k-bhanchhu-bhanera-bhanchhu-bhane -type wordings, were not that bad after all.
 
Posted on 01-31-06 11:07 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
Login in to Rate this Post:     0       ?    
 

Nepal elections 'will go ahead'
Nepal's King Gyanendra
The king pledged parliamentary elections by next spring
King Gyanendra of Nepal has pledged that controversial municipal elections next week will go ahead.

He was speaking one year after he took direct power and sacked elected politicians.

He also said that new parliamentary elections would be held by April 2007. Parliament was dissolved in 2002.

Hundreds of opposition activists were detained across the country on the eve of the first anniversary of the royal coup, according to the opposition.

Speaking on television, looking as grave as he did last year, he said that during the past 12 months Nepal had been on the right track.

"Terrorist activities have narrowed down to just a few sporadic criminal activities," he said.

The speech was peppered with references to democracy - he said democracy was on the rise and urged Nepalis to take part in the town and city council elections scheduled for next week.

"Free and fair elections will be conducted," he said.

"The elections are the only means to guarantee people's rights (and) consolidate democracy."

The main opposition parties are boycotting those polls and the Maoist rebels have violently attacked candidates.

King Gyanendra dismissed a recent unilateral ceasefire called by the rebels, saying they had used it to regroup and get a breathing space to prepare further violence.

Since the end of the truce, there has indeed been increased bloodshed.

The army in western Nepal says rebels launched overnight attacks on armed forces and government posts in the town of Tansen.

A military spokesman told the BBC at least three members of the security forces had been killed and two were seriously injured.

He had no immediate information on rebel casualties.
 
Posted on 01-31-06 11:23 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
Login in to Rate this Post:     0       ?    
 

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) -- On a cold morning one year ago the phones suddenly went dead in Nepal.

Heavily armed soldiers surrounded the homes of powerful politicians in the Himalayan country. Roadblocks went up in the streets.

The king had taken complete control.

King Gyanendra went on state-run television and radio last February 1 to say the move was necessary to bring sense to the nation's chaotic, corrupt political scene, and crush the Maoist insurgents who had seized control of much of the countryside.

But one year later, Nepal appears to be sliding deeper into crisis, with an autocratic king pitted against an unlikely coalition of fractious political parties and violent communist rebels.

Now, the monarch and the political parties seem on a collision course, with neither ready to give way.

Nepal's royalist government has arrested hundreds of pro-democracy activists, politicians and students ahead of protest rallies planned for Wednesday to mark the anniversary of King Gyanendra's seizure of power, dissidents said.

"We have reports that more than 600 pro-democracy activists have been arrested by the police, and they are continuing raids," said Krishna Sitaula of Nepali Congress, the country's largest party. Sitaula said he and many other dissidents were in hiding, and that his house was raided several times.

Rebels, who started their violent campaign for a socialist state a decade ago and have intensified attacks in recent weeks, launching a raid overnight on a western Nepal town, officials said.

The rebel assault was on the town of Tansen, some 300 kilometers (190 miles) west of Kathmandu.

Fighting continued there Wednesday morning following overnight rebel attacks on an army camp, police station, town jail and government buildings in the town, said Gangadutta Awasti, a government administrator in neighboring Rupandehi district.
Election 'sham'

Recent conflict has arisen over the king's decision to push ahead with February 8 municipal elections, polls that Gyanendra says are the first step towards restoring democracy.

But in the past few weeks he has again clamped down on political freedom, thrown hundreds of politicians into jail, put others under house arrest and muzzled the media.

The parties, for their part, call the polls a sham and a way for Gyanendra to entrench his power. They're urging a boycott.

The Maoists, meanwhile, have threatened to take "severe action" against candidates and election workers. They're already accused of killing one candidate, wounding another and abducting a third.

Nepal has been in turmoil since Gyanendra assumed the crown in 2001 after his brother, King Birendra, was gunned down in a palace massacre apparently committed by Birendra's son, the crown prince, who also died.

Soon after Gyanendra became king, the Maoists intensified their attacks. Public disillusion grew with the politicians, who were seen as corrupt and only interested in keeping power.

Finally, a year ago, the king dismissed the government, accusing it of failing to hold parliamentary elections or end the insurgency.

But 12 months of royal dictatorship have widened the chasm between Gyanendra and the political parties, with leaders across Nepal's political spectrum arguing the king himself poses the biggest hurdle to democracy and a resolution to the decade-long insurgency that has killed more than 12,000 people.
Loyalists uncertain

"The root cause of the present situation is the king's intransigence. By refusing to hold a dialogue with the political parties and pushing ahead with these sham elections, the king has plunged the country into a crisis," said Ram Sharan Mahat, a senior leader of the Nepali Congress, the country's main political party, which ruled for 14 years before the king's takeover.

The king's actions, such as the clampdown on political activity and resorting to military offensives to deal with the Maoists, have even left many of his loyalists uncertain.

"The conflict cannot be won by mere military means," said Pashupati Shamsher J. B. Rana, once a royal confidant and head of the pro-royalist Rashtriya Prajatantra Party, or National Democratic Party.

"The ultimate solution is to bring the insurgents into the mainstream through a dialogue, in which ... the king and the parties engage jointly."

That is easier said than done.

The political parties insist the king must first restore the elected parliament and return to his position as constitutional monarch.

"We now have a single theme -- the king should go back to his constitutional role," says Surya Bahadur Thapa, a former prime minister and senior Nepali Congress leader.

Thapa says the king pushed the political parties into forging an alliance with the Maoist rebels.

"It was when the parties saw that the king would not heed them that they joined hands with the Maoists to jointly put pressure on the king," he said.
Opposition alliance

In November, an alliance of seven political parties and the Maoists agreed to a 12-point agenda to step up opposition to the king and restore democracy in Nepal.

However, the king has refused to negotiate with the parties and is determined to go ahead with municipal elections, despite an embarrassingly low candidate turnout. Candidates have registered in less than half the 4,146 election races for local offices in 58 cities and towns.

There is mounting anger on the streets of Kathmandu, where a shrinking economy and growing political unrest have increased the hardships of an impoverished populace.

Ranak Pandey, a Kathmandu shopkeeper, says words like democracy have little meaning when the lives of common people are shrouded in uncertainty because of protest rallies and strikes.

"People just want some order in their lives, some calm," says Pandey.

"Whoever can give us that, whether king or party or Maoist, is welcome."
 
Posted on 02-01-06 5:31 AM     Reply [Subscribe]
Login in to Rate this Post:     0       ?    
 


Nepal's future is on our hand........King can not do anything and there is no pint of listening to him.............I think he is the most incompetent person in this world., not only in Nepal and he should be immediately sacked from the throne and should be tried in International Court of Criminal Justice for the crimes against Humanity that he committed in his life time in general and in past one year in particular....................

 
Posted on 02-01-06 12:44 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
Login in to Rate this Post:     0       ?    
 

[THIS ARTICLE WAS WRITTEN IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE POWER GRAB BY KING IN FEBRUARY 1-2005 AND THIS ARTICLE WAS PRESENTED IN ONE OF THE CONFERENCES IN NEW DELHI IN AUGUST 2005. THIS IS THE ABSTRACT OF THE SAME ARTICLE AND AGAIN SAME ARTICLE WITH SOME MODIFICATIONS WILL BE PRESENTED IN ANOTHER CONFERENCE (WITH PRIOR INFORMATION AND APPROVAL OF THE ORGANISER) IN NEW DELHI IN MAY IN THE LIGHT OF SOME RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN NEPAL. FOR YOU READERS, ABSTRACT OF THE SAME HAS BEEN POSTED HERE-AUTHOR.]



The recent power grab in February 1 by King Gynendra in Nepal, a tiny Himalayan nation progressing towards the development of full-fledged democracy, should be a matter of grave concern to anybody who has utmost faith in the constitutional democracy and the rule of law. After the re-establishment of Democracy in 1990, the Kingdom was practising one of the best forms of parliamentary democracies in the world embodying the multi-party democracy and constitutional monarchy in its supreme law of the kingdom. The Constitution of the Kingdom of Nepal, 1990, was a legal and political document where political parties and the active monarchy had agreed upon the various questions, inter alia, constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy.

But, the unilateral steps taken by King Gynendra to assume the executive powers, sidelining all the democratic parties, has caused a fundamental breach of the letters and spirits of the Constitution. The steps taken by King may be justified politically but as a student of constitutional law, such actions can not be endorsed after reading the Constitution of Nepal. The basic assumption regarding the notion of Constitutional monarchy sounds hollow if we try to reconcile the series of actions taken by the King and the position of king envisaged in constitution.

The first step initiated by King was the dismissal of the Sher Bahadur Deuba Cabinet to derail the functioning democracy. The dissolve of Deuba Cabinet marked the starting point of encroaching and scraping of the constitution. After this incident, there have been various unconstitutional decisions by the palace that render the constitution nugatory and superfluous. Under the guise of constitutional rule, king is ruling the nation solely on the ground of Article 127 which gives King some power to remove the difficulties in the operation of the Constitution. The preamble and ‘basic structure’ of the Constitution does not imagine the active role of King and no Articles in the constitution allow king to take any decisions that violate the basic understanding of the norms of the ‘Constitutional Monarchy’. The King has to perform every executive duty on the recommendation and advice of the Council of Ministers submitted through Prime minister. Then, fundamental question arises, how the king can dismiss a cabinet without its recommendation?

So, this paper, in depth, tries to analyse the constitutional powers of the King and its relation with the executive bodies. The basic propositions laid down by the Apex Courts of UK, USA and India on rule of law and Constitutional supremacy have been compared with those of Nepal to further advance the arguments that there is no constitutional rule in Nepal but the law has been converted to ‘command of sovereign’ where concept of sovereign is, still ambiguous. We have to ask this question, again and again, who is sovereign- “king” or “Parliament and cabinet” elected by people?
THIS paper examines some of the questions related to the meanings of ‘democracy' and constitutional supremacy in Nepal. The Nepalese constitution of 23 Kartik, 2047 B.S. (November 9, 1990 A.D.) was a bold attempt to institutionalize the goals of the popular movement of the spring of 1990. In a dramatic reversal of previous formulations, it placed sovereignty in the people and made the king the symbol of the nation, thus legally transforming the state from an absolute to a constitutional monarchy. It reinstates the system of multiparty democracy absent since the brief democratic experiment of the 1950's, and presents guarantees of new basic rights. The subsequent completion of elections and formation of a new Government according to its provisions, even with the problems and conflicts common to such fundamental political restructurings, have provided decisive steps towards transforming it from a theoretical document to a living reality.
The Preamble of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Nepal, 1990 reads as: “We are convinced that the source of sovereign authority of the independent and sovereign Nepal is inherent in the people, and, therefore, We have, from time to time, made known our desire to conduct the government of the country in consonance with the popular will”;.
This is the view of the former late King Birendra, at the time of promulgation of New Constitution of the Kingdom of Nepal, who was convinced that the sovereign power lies on the people and was convinced that the government should be conducted on the basis of popular will. The king was compelled to convince by the people who participated in the democratic ‘people’s movements’ and partyless panchayati system was overthrown. After 15 years, king Gynendra, who became king after the royal massacre of 2001 where entire family of King Birendra and some royal relatives were killed by the then crown Prince Dipendra, blatantly violated the promises and assurances given by the palace. The Preamble further mentions, “……………….to consolidate Adult Franchise, the Parliamentary System of Government, Constitutional Monarchy and the System of Multi Party Democracy by promoting amongst the people of Nepal the spirit of fraternity and the bond of unity on the basis of liberty and equality; and also to establish an independent and competent system of justice with a view to transforming the concept of the Rule of Law into a living reality…………… ”
But, the living realities of preamble has been made unreal and each and every word of the Preamble has been violated making all the systems defunct which has put the state at the verge of collapse or at the brink of disaster, whichever happens earlier .
 


Please Log in! to be able to reply! If you don't have a login, please register here.

YOU CAN ALSO



IN ORDER TO POST!




Within last 200 days
Recommended Popular Threads Controvertial Threads
TPS Re-registration
What are your first memories of when Nepal Television Began?
निगुरो थाहा छ ??
ChatSansar.com Naya Nepal Chat
Basnet or Basnyat ??
Sajha has turned into MAGATs nest
NRN card pros and cons?
Do nepalese really need TPS?
कता जादै छ नेपाली समाज ??
susta manasthiti lai ke bhanchan english ma?
Will MAGA really start shooting people?
Democrats are so sure Trump will win
मन भित्र को पत्रै पत्र!
Top 10 Anti-vaxxers Who Got Owned by COVID
I regret not marrying a girl at least for green card. do you think TPS will remain for a long time?
TPS Work Permit/How long your took?
काेराेना सङ्क्रमणबाट बच्न Immunity बढाउन के के खाने ?How to increase immunity against COVID - 19?
Breathe in. Breathe out.
3 most corrupt politicians in the world
Dementia Joe has been selected to become the next President
Nas and The Bokas: Coming to a Night Club near you
Mr. Dipak Gyawali-ji Talk is Cheap. US sends $ 200 million to Nepal every year.
Harvard Nepali Students Association Blame Israel for hamas terrorist attacks
TPS Update : Jajarkot earthquake
NOTE: The opinions here represent the opinions of the individual posters, and not of Sajha.com. It is not possible for sajha.com to monitor all the postings, since sajha.com merely seeks to provide a cyber location for discussing ideas and concerns related to Nepal and the Nepalis. Please send an email to admin@sajha.com using a valid email address if you want any posting to be considered for deletion. Your request will be handled on a one to one basis. Sajha.com is a service please don't abuse it. - Thanks.

Sajha.com Privacy Policy

Like us in Facebook!

↑ Back to Top
free counters