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Decisions good and bad

 

 

 

Politics they say is a game of compromises. And compromises are all about how much you can gain, by how little you give. However going by the nature of compromises Nepali politicians and the parties they lead seem to be making, neither will they nor the country gain anything in the long run.

 

Take for example Nepali Congress President Sushil Koirala’s decision to dissolve its four sister organizations – the Nepal Tarun Dal, Women’s Association, Indigenous Nationalities Association and the Democracy Veterans Association, even when a majority of the central committee members objected to the move.

 

The conclusion one can come to about the decision is that it’s the only way Koirala can prevent Sher Bahadur Deuba from taking over party leadership when the next party general convention happens and goes for an election to bring new leadership.

 

Koirala knows that unlike his predecessor the late Girija Prasad Koirala, he does not have enough hold on the organizations, especially the Tarun Dal and the Women’s Association, as does Deuba, which is why he was so adamant about terminating the very same organizations on whom the party depends to show strength.

 

The fact that party activists are now staging hunger strikes in various parts of the country protesting the president’s decision, not only shows how unpopular his decision is amongst the party cadre, but also indicates to some extent about which way the votes will go during the next party election. The Tarun Dal and the Women’s Association have played important roles in not just the party’s evolution but also contributed to bringing some major policy changes.

 

It was the Women’s Association which played a lead role in the late 90’s in guaranteeing 33% reservation for women in all sectors, this despite the then party leadership objecting to it.

 

Koirala’s main rival within the party, Sher Bahadur Deuba is now planning to hold a national gathering to resist the decision, and this is only going to further weaken Nepali Congress and could even lead to another break up. Deuba in a recent interview stated that he would not let the party break again, but one is reminded that it was he who had led the earlier break up also.

 

This also brings to light the dictatorial nature of the Nepali Congress. While the party attempts to propagate itself as the protector of democracy, there are plenty of examples of how the party leadership has on many an occasion shown their dictatorial and authoritarian nature.

 

Girija Prasad Koirala was beyond hope on this issue, but one had expected Sushil Koirala to be different. Perhaps it is his age and the influence of Indian power plays, that still makes him adhere to the strictly sub-continental nature of political parties, in trying to ensure that party power remains within the family, but here is where he is going wrong.

 

The Indian National Congress may want to project Rahul Gandhi, as prime minister in waiting, but the Indian public will no doubt judge him on the basis of his individual merit and charisma rather than his Nehru-Gandhi legacy. It is time for the Koirala’s to give up their semi-feudalistic attitude towards the party if it wants to continue to project itself as a democratic progressive party.

 

On the other hand what is ironical is that the party projected (by the media and political analysts), as being most susceptible to authoritarianism, the UCPN-Maoists show more adherence to democracy, at least within the party. Recent developments that led to its vice-chairman Dr. Baburam Bhattarai, becoming the 35th Prime Minister of Nepal, have shown that the party at least holds democratic discussions before coming to a conclusion.

 

It’s a different matter if there are those within the party leadership that holds dissenting views. Mohan Vaidya “Kiran” may be unsatisfied with the decision to hand over the keys of the arms container to the government panel and call the step “reconciliatory” but there is no doubt that that issue was discussed in the central working committee, and a conclusion reached to end the peace process. If the peace process is to be brought to a logical conclusion it must move ahead, and certain decisions made that could be inadvertently be opposed by the “hardliners’” within the party.

 

And then there are decisions related to granting general amnesty to all, integrating 10,000 people of Madhes origin to the army both of which came as a part of the four point pact with the Madhes front. Here it seems the Maoist leaders have again deviated from the path they should be treading. The Comprehensive Peace Accord which talked of the PLA integration into the Nepal Army, and the formation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Disappearance Commission, was signed between the Nepal Government and the Maoists.

 

The conflicting parties were the Maoists and the state, so where does the question of the integrating 10,000 individuals of Madhes origin come in?

 

The four different governments formed after the CA election was held in 2008 have all decided to take back “politically charged” criminal cases, and Bhattarai has also done the same. It was but natural for Pushpa Kamal Dahal to attempt to take back the cases, albeit it was a wrong decision. Madhav Kumar Nepal and Jhala Nath Khanal had to agree to do the same to get support to form their government.

 

Back home this morning from his US/UN trip, Bhattarai was beaming with confidence and why shouldn’t he? US President Barack Obama gave him some time, as did UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and Indian Prime Minister Man Mohan Singh. He raised some more eyebrows by declaring that Nepal will support Palestine’s bid in the UN, which has already led the Israel Embassy here to declare that it will have to rethink its status here.

 

Meanwhile, contradicting his earlier stance, Puspa Kama Dahal has asked India, the same country he once denounced for their “expansionism” for help to end the peace process and the writing of the new constitution. It only leads one to further disapprovingly note that Nepali leaders do not seem to have it in them to solve our own issues and yet continue to declare that they do so.

 

 

Kaziba is a Nepali who dreams of conquering the world every night, but ends up waking every morning in the same prison.


http://www.parakhi.com/blogs/2011/09/26/decisions-good-and-bad/
 

 


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