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Basanta Bhujel
Such a large public meeting was held in front of the southern gate of Narayanhiti Durbar, such public meetings are rare in Nepal. Except when the system of governance has changed or there has been a great upheaval in the country, such a large public meeting has not been held in Nepal. Organized by the Prime Minister of the Communist Party of Nepal (CPN) KP Sharma Oli Khema, the rally has indicated that there may or may not be a major upheaval in the country. Immediately after the end of the 2062-2063 movement, Prime Minister Oli was deified in the same way as the then Maoist leader Prachanda was deified in the capital. Who else did the deification, they did it themselves? Yesterday, Prachanda deified himself. Today, Oli deified himself. The tendency to deify oneself is not becoming normal. On the eve of the rally, the youth and students not only chanted “I love you” to Oli, but Oli’s idol was also made and circulated in the market. Large pictures of Oli were also placed in the public meeting place.
During the so-called People’s War, Prachanda used to post his pictures all over the walls. To establish leadership, Prachanda not only made pictures mandatory in every program but also analyzed the party’s ideology as Prachandapath. Even when the then King Gyanendra Shah centralized his power, he used to deify himself and advertise his pictures. Now Oli is trying to forget the same old activity.
There were slogans in the procession – KP Oli is good: the sun sign is ours, what the Nepali people say: KP Oli says, not today but tomorrow: 10 years to Oli, slogans like KP Oli I love you are being chanted. Oli’s pictures are hung on every pole. Jackets and feta with Oli’s picture were also distributed to the participants in the rally. This expenditure may not have come directly from the treasury of the state, but donations were certainly taken from black traders, corrupt people, and swindlers.
A frightening sign:
Right-wing leader Donald Trump, who is retiring after losing the presidential election, used a riot to seize Capitol Hill in the second week of January. This move by the Wahalwala President not only discredited the United States but also pushed the world democratic history. What kind of bad people can come to power in a democracy? A new precedent was set in political science. At this time, the Prime Minister of our country KP Oli has also repeated the same right-wing riot activities. Prime Minister Oli’s riotous activities have created a kind of anxiety and fear in the Democrats.
Parliament is the place to present the issues and problems of the people. When there is no House of Representatives, there is a road. Prime Minister Oli has dissolved the parliament and even taken control of the streets. What is the message of the Prime Minister when the road is occupied? This has not been seen anywhere in the world. On the eve of Prime Minister Oli’s program to occupy the streets, the Prachanda-Madhav camp of the CPN (Maoist) organized a Nepal Bandh on January 7. The Nepal Bandh strike is a very distorted form of the movement. If Prime Minister Oli had not taken control of the road, the people would have punished the Prachanda-Nepal faction for organizing a perverted program like Nepal Bandh. You would have called for a Nepal Bandh, But the people agreed. It was reported that Prime Minister Oli had mobilized about 1,100 buses to transport people from all districts of Bagmati district during the road capture program on August 8. Prime Minister Oli had planned to take 50,000-60,000 people to the streets in his support.
Prachanda: The number of people attending Prime Minister Oli’s road capture program despite the Nepal Bandh organized by the Nepal Group the previous day cannot be underestimated. But the crowds gathered in the grip of power do not make much sense, Prime Minister Oli should have known from past political events that such a crowd would not support him in times of need. For example, on March 22, 2046, the then Punches were holding a public meeting with 20,000-25,000 people on the open stage. While Prime Minister Marichman Singh was delivering his speech, a line of 5-7 hundred protesters marched towards Ratna Park from Ashan to Bhotahiti. In terms of numbers, the rally of 5-7 hundred people gathered by Prime Minister Marichman before the gathering of 20-25 thousand is nothing. But the procession of 5-7 hundred did not get to enter Ratna Park and the gathering of Punches ran away like a tiger in a herd of goats. King Gyanendra Shah, who came to power after 2059 BS, was seen by millions of people wherever he went. The number of protesters in Ratna Park was limited to 5-7 hundred. As time went on, the belief that Gyanendra could solve the problem was disappearing among the people. As the number of agitators increased, so did the number of those supporting Gyanendra. Until then, the people did not participate in the municipal elections organized by the government through the Election Commission. This election also confirmed that King Gyanendra is not with the people, the crowd seen in the program he attended was not of supporters but spectators. Oli’s supporters should understand that the crowd seen in the program of Prime Minister Oli’s speech is not of the supporters but the spectators. The number of people supporting Gyanendra was decreasing. Until then, the people did not participate in the municipal elections organized by the government through the Election Commission. This election also confirmed that King Gyanendra is not with the people, the crowd seen in the program he attended was not of supporters but spectators. Oli’s supporters should understand that the crowd seen in the program of Prime Minister Oli’s speech is not of the supporters but the spectators. The number of people supporting Gyanendra was decreasing. Until then, the people did not participate in the municipal elections organized by the government through the Election Commission. This election also confirmed that King Gyanendra is not with the people, the crowd seen in the program he attended was not of supporters but spectators. Oli’s supporters should understand that the crowd seen in the program of Prime Minister Oli’s speech is not of the supporters but the spectators.
Due to unconstitutionally dissolving the parliament, issuing a warning to dissolve the state assembly and not allowing the state assembly to enter the process of electing the state government, amending the Constitutional Council Act on the functions and responsibilities of the Constitutional Council. The activities that took place in the last week of November and the first week of December last year show that Prime Minister Oli has a strong desire for unlimited power and that he is working hard to make the current constitution a failure. He is the Prime Minister, controlling the resources of the state and using them arbitrarily in favor of his political aspirations.
An example of Oli’s style of governing is similar to that of the Raja Maharaja, as evidenced by his recent announcement of Rs. Whether or not the state can make such expenditures is a matter of debate, but if the state wants to give, it can only do so bypassing all the tax rates and expenditure titles and amounts related to the government’s income and expenditure. The property given by Oli is not his personal property, it is the state treasury collected from the taxes paid by the people. A government that does not have the money to build a hospital cannot do so arbitrarily. This way of manipulating the feelings of the people who have faith in religion and fulfilling their ugly aspirations for power gives a glimpse of the fascist ruler. This is nothing but the right-wing practice of populist politics.
The Prime Minister should take into confidence not only the ordinary citizens who have not voted for him and his party but also the opposition parties, creating a fearless environment. But Prime Minister Oli has been influencing the decisions of the Election Commission and the Supreme Court every day since the last week of December. No one can stop him from putting his political beliefs in front of the people, but no democratic government should do anything to terrorize the people and occupy the streets by abusing the state machinery to do all this. Now that he is in power, no one will be afraid of him, but it is good for him to know that history will never know Oli’s power.
What Oli is doing on the streets right now is like a punches protest rally. Numbers don’t matter in a pro-regression rally. The country would not have been in such a predicament if Prime Minister Oli had shown the same vigor and vigor as he did after the January 19 scandal. During the three years, he visited his government office in Singha Durbar for a few days. Prime Minister Oli, who spent most of his time at his residence in Valuwatar, could not even arrange a meeting with the chief ministers. Apart from the parliamentarians, even the ministers did not have time to meet Prime Minister Oli easily. He did not even call a party meeting saying he was busy. Oli, who has spent more than 90 percent of his time in Chaughera of Baluwatar for three years, has suddenly started running around the country after the incident. Prime Minister Oli spends most of his time visiting, public meetings, They have spent in meetings and discussions. He has shown more enthusiasm than an 18-year-old. Neither his Valuwatar hideout before December 19 was in the interest of the country nor his astonishing activism after that is in the interest of the country. The more the enthusiasm and vigor of Prime Minister Oli grow, the more the country suffers. Energy used for the wrong purposes can lead to dangerous consequences.
Prime Minister Oli at least had to wait for the Supreme Court’s decision. Prime Minister Oli should have said that the Prime Minister’s involvement in the Corona epidemic was the biggest crime against the country and the people. It is dangerous for the country to have an irresponsible leader in the prime minister’s chair. But looking at his face, there are no signs of self-pity or guilt.
It is clear from the activities of Prime Minister Oli that the government wants to bring many distortions in Nepali politics in the name of power. Government operations are, of course, governed by the taxes paid by the public. However, to fulfill their personal and partisan interests, when the government and its bodies misuse such taxes and use them against the same taxpayers, it is important to understand that the transformation of power under the guise of democracy has taken place in the form of authoritarianism. In the past, under the Panchayat system, other ideologues were intimidated in the name of Pancharyali and Sabha from time to time across the state treasury. At that time there was a one-party autocratic rule. It was natural for expectations of democratic conduct and behavior to be unreasonable. So, At present, if the government abuses its power and organizes rallies and assemblies in the same style and exploits the overall machinery of the state and the people’s taxes to intimidate the opposition, how can it be considered democratic without calling it an authoritarian government? The country’s law and constitution may not stop the head of government from taking to the streets to express himself. It is not necessary to brush your teeth. However, the question of how the future will receive the message of this act is very complex. If the government itself organizes a program in that place in front of Naranhiti, will other parties be allowed to organize a protest program in that place nowadays or not? The government has probably not assessed what kind of distortion this brings into politics. The question of how the future will receive the message of this act is very complex. If the government itself organizes a program in that place in front of Naranhiti, will other parties be allowed to organize a protest program in that place nowadays or not? The government has probably not assessed what kind of distortion this brings into politics. The question of how the future will receive the message of this act is very complex. If the government itself organizes a program in that place in front of Naranhiti, will other parties be allowed to organize a protest program in that place nowadays or not? The government has probably not assessed what kind of distortion this brings into politics. The question of how the future will receive the message of this act is very complex. If the government itself organizes a program in that place in front of Naranhiti, will other parties be allowed to organize a protest program in that place nowadays or not? The government has probably not assessed what kind of distortion this brings into politics. The question of how the future will receive the message of this act is very complex. If the government itself organizes a program in that place in front of Naranhiti, will other parties be allowed to organize a protest program in that place nowadays or not? The government has probably not assessed what kind of distortion this brings into politics.
Similarly, government leaders and those around them have been using hate speech in recent days. The language used in recent times since joining the government is of an extremely indecent standard. In politics, competition between parties is considered very natural. Linguistic and verbal attacks on each other are not considered unnatural. It is believed that such language should be civilized and socially friendly. So, Doesn’t the Prime Minister, who expects the public and the media to use the most respectful language, know that others do not like swearing? Isn’t it necessary for those who expect their dignity to protect the dignity of others? Lately, leaders and cadres of other parties have been making hate speech by imitating the Prime Minister. Retired MP Ram Kumari Jhankri’s statement regarding President Vidya Bhandari is a product of such competition, which is sad.
There is no doubt that the Ram Kumari Jhankri case is helping to further distort politics. If we do not think about ending such distortions in time, the politics of the future will surely become more critical. As a parent institution, the government will inevitably take the lead in ending such malpractices.
(Bhujel is a retired engineer in the British Army)
