Nepali Politics in Limbo

It is your Time to Speak, Gagan

This is our misfortune. Even if we had known it all the way long, we hoped. So we got fooled. You are also in the same lot, aren’t you?

Meanwhile, the proposition made by the Prime Minister to hold the fresh elections has made some of us very excited. Kindly don’t get me wrong. There is no telling how dicey it would be. But we can manage the quandaries. It is only that we have to be ready. This will only be the methodical and fruitful.

I will present the relevance of these elections herewith. Buddhisagar wrote on Facebook on May 27, “I hear they are going for fresh elections. I wonder if they know people’s address.” He was more or less right. You people have forgotten our addresses. Don’t get it otherwise as I’m including you in the lot. In fact, this is the reality. Aren’t you attempting to get visibility in that irresponsible entourage?  

Likewise, the status written by a friend of mine who had been in the frontline during the Resurrection II is contextually mentionable here. “King, come and save the country,” he has written. This is only one of the hundreds of grouses. Don’t you ever feel that this is ‘the change’ you people have institutionalized? In addition, the arguments made by the people who I spoke to during last week are even more relevant here. The essence of their arguments was- the king’s reign was better than this because there was only one thief, a predictable one. The ones today are mercurial. I am not manipulating. This is how people thought. Please mull over. Is there any other nadir of political failure?  

I hope you have already read the article written by Rabindra Misra addressing Sushil Koirala. How careless position your top brass has put on a nationally important issue! When will you have your time, Gagan Ji? What is your position now? I’m not running a personal tirade here. This is the question which has gone unanswered for years now thanks to your reticence. If you think that the ‘bull’s fruit’ will fall off and you will feed on it, you are wrong. In fact, the bull has no fruit. The fruit which has been shown to us as well as you is a figment. Or if you think that you have done something good, this will be a greater figment. Your presence in the Constituent Assembly hasn’t made much difference in our life, nor have you done anything noteworthy. The charismatic personality you had once boasted of seems to have gone worthless.

Let’s now assess the ‘possible elections’ and our position. Kindly get out of the flocks of the bright sparks who are still thinking that the people are with them and study the situations outside. Ask the most ordinary man possible in the street who he will vote for provided there is an election coming up despite possible resistance from your party and others. His answer will make you speechless. But NC and UML will never tend to go for elections because they had had an exact political analysis of late. It will be morally impossible for them to face the people. Personally, if a person comes to me for votes without any fundamental change, I will be the first to spit on his face.

Nonetheless, the elections are very essential at present. Don’t object to it as it is the most practicable and democratic way of having people’s mandate. Rather look for an alternative to the parties. Let’s look for the one together.

They were dialoguing about the alternative to the Constituent Assembly on May 27. Now I’m pondering over an alternative to the incapable leaders. Yes, I’ve got a lot of limitations. But you have got fewer of them. You have to do it because you can, because there is nothing better to do.

We are informed of the fact that you and the ilk have been disappointed by the series of the events that surfaced. But you all can get united. You can cooperate with the Media which is running a movement for peace and the constitution. They will definitely air the right issues to the populace with a reasonable emphasis. Meanwhile, you can appeal the civil society for backing or write a status on Facebook. You will get bedazzled by the magic it creates. I believe social networkings will be the most helpful tool for you.

We also know it is a theoretically difficult decision. But you must materialize the paradigm shift for the greater good. We are aware of the fact that the external butting-into is at the acme besides hunger, dearth, poverty and uncertainty. In this sense also, there are equal numbers of opportunities. Cash on them. Unite all the people committed to the welfare of the country. It is time to be a hero if you want the visibility. If not, give up the leaderism and stand on the earth we are standing now and feel our pains. This will not make you a villain either.

I’m sending this letter to you because you don’t know any other trustworthy young leaders. You know many of them. Besides, I still feel that you are someone beyond your party. There is a personal reason for it as well. I’ve carried UML’s flag, supported the ‘wild’ people so much that I didn’t choose you when I was asked to choose between them and you although I am more or less an apolitical person.

True enough, a principle blinds us. Don’t point at your principles. It is the time for the change. Get ready for it. Lead us. Hundreds of thousands people including me will back you backhandedly because we know there is an alternative to a party, to everything. But there is none to the welfare of the people, nor is there one to democracy.