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It won’t be preposterous to say that the persistent inability of the country to get out of its tension-fraught transition has much to do with lust for power among the major political party leaders.
For them, it is strictly the pay and perks that need to keep flowing. In the current situation whereby the prospects of logical conclusion of constitution writing and peace processes are extremely remote, the need to deliver is simply not in anybody’s priority.
If the political leadership was really sincere about institutionalizing democracy and fulfilling the people’s aspirations, the issue of premiership would have been inconsequential.
The way the political pendulum is swinging suggests that the politicos in Kathmandu are pathetically less concerned about the significance of acting together at least to rescue the country out of the current deepening crisis.
Undeniably, the current political fluidity demands the formation of national unity government rather than a majority one to serve the mandate of the People’s Movement II-restoration of permanent peace though a new stature.
Unfortunately, the imprudence and myopia amongst the leaders that has long been threatening the liquidation of the entire state has once again forced the country to see the onset of substandard political arithmetic aimed at the majority government.
It was the obsession of the major political party leaders with power and privileges that aborted the President’s call to form a national consensus government. Not only the first deadline but the second one was also missed.
On the one hand, it perfectly corroborated the fact that the political stalwarts are inclined towards holding the nation hostage as long as they could not fulfill their respective parochial and partisan interests. On the other hand, it vividly shed light on their unwillingness to safeguard the democratic values and ultimately, the genuine national interests of the country.
Of course, for external forces that have political and security interests in Nepal, politicians can wrangle as much as they want to.
The level of insensitivity exhibited by the external players, politicians, and power brokers toward the degrading political and economic condition is having a disastrous impact on the way we live and enjoy political and personal freedom.
The degenerating political culture has also augmented the possibility of a humiliating debacle of Nepal as a nation state.
At the same, it is also jeopardizing the prospects of socioeconomic development. Recently, the Maoist Central Committee member and commander of the PLA Fifth Division in Rolpa, Kali Bahadur Kham, was found to have conducted suspicious transaction with Chinese traders, who eventually ended up getting robbed by the revolutionary.
This shows the criminalization in politics is simply vicious. More unfortunate is the fact that it is not only the politicians that are resorting to criminal activities to enrich themselves. Tej Bahadur Karki, a Hetauda Appellate Court Judge, was recently suspended for his involvement in an inappropriate release of abduction kingpins: Sanjaya Shrestha, Rohit Paliwal Agrawal and Bhimsen Pundit. The ongoing rapid decay of institutions is severely thinning our chances to emerge as a modern and prosperous society.
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