WHEN A NEPALESE POLICE OFFICER REFUSES TO MEET DEPUTY HEAD OF GOVERNMENT

[The fact of the matter, according to the media,  is that the Deputy Prime Minister Gautam himself  told it all to the public. Was it required for him to bewail the way he did seemingly for the loss of integrity or was he actually telling something different to his young party cadres that he was going to take action against the police officer, at least kick him out somewhere else ?  While speaking  at a public meeting  in Dhulikhel, a small township to the east of capital  city of Kathmandu, the deputy prime minister had told in front of the people that  the senior superintendent of police, SSP Kharel, who has nowadays launched a massive hunt against duns, thugs, goondas  and other unsocial elements that have terrorized people, reportedly under some political party protection, since long in the country didn’t go to see the former in his office or home either.  The deputy prime minister seemed upset  with the officer and downright angry also ! The Deputy Head of Nepal Government further said, “The SSP thinks he would be humbled meeting with me.”]

By B. K. Rana

Bam Dev Gautam: Google picture

Now a days, Nepal’s Deputy Prime Minister, that is to say his name, appears everywhere on social media in the negative parameters. While on the same capacity in 1997, the Deputy Prime Minister was praised all along for having been so serious about people’s life and property, however, he had actually been successful also to quickly spur the dread in the minds of people of Tamakoshi basin hyping a possibility of Chhorolpa glacial lake outburst. The people had believed him then, bought his idea of temporal management of the swelling glacial lake which did luckily for them never burst out. 

But this time, the very Deputy Prime Minister, Bam Dev Gautam who looks after homeland security and interior administration also is reportedly in some troubles.  A group of civil society activists have warned of steering public protests against the Deputy Prime Minister should he ‘remove’ Senior Police Superintendent,  Ramesh Kharel, deemed to be a right officer, from his job in Kathmandu. The Kathmanduites now believe law and order  have begun rolling back to  normal since the officer took charge. What is something ridiculously serious about it is that a mid-level employee officer refused to meet with the current Deputy Head of Government of Nepal under whom he discharges his duty!

How did we know about it ?

Ramesh Kharel

The fact of the matter, according to the media,  is that the Deputy Prime Minister Gautam himself  told it all to the public. Was it required for him to bewail the way he did seemingly for the loss of integrity or was he actually telling something different to his young party cadres that he was going to take action against the police officer, at least kick him out somewhere else?  While speaking  at a public meeting  in Dhulikhel, a small township to the east of capital  city of Kathmandu, the deputy prime minister had told in front of the people that  the senior superintendent of police, SSP Kharel, who has nowadays launched a massive hunt against duns, thugs, goondas and other unsocial elements that have terrorized people, reportedly under some political party protection, since long in the country didn’t go to see the former in his office or home either.  The deputy prime minister seemed upset  with the officer and downright angry also ! The Deputy Head of Nepal Government further said, “The SSP thinks he would be humbled meeting with me.”

What a joke?

The Deputy Head of Nepal Government Bam Dev Gautam would have ordered the Secretary of the Home Ministry who also in turn, would have ordered SSP Kharels’s ultimate boss, Nepal's Inspector General of Police – IGP, what the Deputy Prime Minister had wanted the SSP to do ?

In an email to us this morning Kalyan Bhattarai, a Nepalese political analysit writes, ‘honesty brings power and strength to bring dishonest people to their knees’. The Deputy Prime Minister has been lampooned very recently for having amassed wealth and riches unconvincingly.

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From: Adarsha Tuladhar <adarsha.tuladhar@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 1:30 AM
Subject: Re: AN UPSET AND DOWNRIGHT ANGRY BAM DEV GAUTAM
To: The Himalayan Voice <himalayanvoice@gmail.com>
Cc: Office of the Chairman and Council of Ministers Nepal <info@opmcm.gov.np>, Ex-PM Surya Bahadur Thapa <rastriyajanashaktiparty@gmail.com>, Ex-PM Madhav Kumar Nepal <gamknepal@gmail.com>, Ex PM Jhala Nath Khanal <jhalanath@gmail.com>, "Ex PM Dr. Baburam Bhattarai" <bhattaraibaburam@gmail.com>, "K.P. Sharma Oli" <sharmaoli@gmail.com>, US Embassy Kathmandu <usembktm@state.gov>, British Embassy Kathmandu <BEKathmandu@fco.gov.uk>, Embassy of India <amb@eoiktm.org>

This is nothing but "colonial mentality" or "hakimi para"...it is obvious that SSP Kharel is the biggest 'threat' to him in terms of extorting the duns, thugs.. 

Let the PM and the IGP speak on this issue...let the IGP clarify whether he would approve a direct meeting between officers at his department and the Home Minister without suspecting some 'behind the back' experience. He is not meeting his 'target' of amassing fortune every month and hence is getting out of his mind.

While visiting the DPM and the departmental Minister would have made for 'courtesy ', yet hasn't time come in Nepal where high-placed people expect "chakadi" and the people from lower ranks make it as their duty to go for "chakadi".

Bam Dev Gautam is not a 'person'; he is man personifying the ugliest face of corruption in Nepalese politics.  It's not for nothing CPN-UML wanted the post of DPM and Home Ministry and for him.. 

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Adarsha M. Tuladhar
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WHY WOULD FREEDOM MATTERS GO FOR TACKLING ‘AMAKO GHAR' ?

[One of the protagonists in the video is a blurred faced alien lady who talks of some (international) laws, that may very well not be the laws of the land. How deeply is she knowledgeable of Nepalese rules and laws on such social issues ? Why would have she needed to talk so loud? Did she really plan to take care of all abandoned children of Nepal ? It doesn't seem any possibility, does it ? Was that good for her to tell the way she did to some people on 'child trafficking' ?  ]

Freedom Matters to tackle Aama-Ko-Ghar

While watching the British Channel 4's 'Unreported World' video posted onto Freedom Matters' portal  on 'the growth of voluntarism where westerners are encouraged to donate their time and money to help vulnerable children  in Kathmandu's orphanages' one may hear the anchorman further say " new type of child trafficking where, children become commodities". 

But we are also at a loss to understand why would Freedom Matters go for tackling 'Amako Ghar' ? Please see the picture. (You may also click the caption link to go to their portal) Doesn't it look premeditated ? Yes, its language really does read so.  Does it feel it has some obligation towards all abandoned children in Nepal ? If yes, it is something appreciative people would like very much.

One of the protagonists in the video is a blurred faced alien lady who talks of some (international) laws, that may very well not be the laws of the land. How deeply is she knowledgeable of Nepalese rules and laws on such social issues ? Why would have she needed to talk so loud? Did she really plan to take care of all abandoned children of Nepal ? It doesn't seem any possibility, does it ? Was that good for her to tell the way she did to some people on 'child trafficking' ?  

But this is really a disturbing video ! ( Many thanks to Freedom Matters for posting the video to let us  also know what's happening in 'New Nepal', kind of. )

Likewise, in the other Power News Video also there are lots of unanswered questions. Dilshova Shrestha has at least two unanswered questions below:

a) Earlier some years back before this all happened, why  had CCWB - केन्द्रीय  बाल कल्याण समिति, (sounds it's a government entity ) - sent some children to 'Ama(ko) Ghar', an elderly care home,  in the first place ? (Such homes are always regulated and receive government grants in the US. But in Nepal's context voluntary social organizations help out the government !)

b) The government, finding some children being taken, cared or reared in 'Ama(ko) Ghar already last year or so, seemed to have tried to regulate and told to amend the latter's by-laws or charter whatever. And Dilshova also seemed to have complied with, at least wanted  to do so. But why did the government not strictly follow up and regulate then while Dilshova was willing to do so?  

But Dilshova Shrestha's plea in the video - "I know nothing, I am not educated, I just know giving 'warm' love" and "not knowing laws and rules .."  ("मैले केही जानेको छैन, मैले पढेको छैन , मैले न्यानो माया मात्तै (मात्रै) दिन जानेको, मैले नियम कानून नबुझेर .. " ), however, it is so painful may not be an excuse to allow her violate any laws of the country. Such a plea won't help her much. Also how could she manage  such an elderly care home which would house some other abandoned children also ? It becomes a huge enterprise for her to manage.

In the meantime, is 'Ama(ko) Ghar' run only by Dilshova Shrestha ? It looks like 'a one man show' or   kind of a one person show. We have not been able to hear more of her management team. How does it is look like ? She also needs to come with a smart management team, doesn't she ?

But those crying children in the transport van standing outside 'Ama(ko) Ghar' evidenced Dilshova had given all her love to them grow well and good.

May god bless Dilshova Shrestha if there is one down there !

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WORLD NEWHA ORGANIZATION ISSUES A PRESS RELEASE ON DIL SHOBHA SHRESTHA

Issuing a press release World Newha Organization, the WNO President Dr. Bal Gopal Shretha writes,  “ We have carefully reviewed all the allegations and explanations from both sides of the controversy and found that the government agencies have not been operating in a free and fair manner. They have made Dil Shova Shrestha a victim of repression and discrimination. The WNO would like to urge the government to immediately stop such irresponsible behaviour towards Dil Shova Shrestha not to hurt her any further. The WNO also demands all those perpetrators  involved in this conspiracy against Dil Shova Shrestha broght to justice. We appeal all citizens of Nepal, political parties, non-political organizations, and justice-loving community of Nepal to come forward and voice in solidarity with Dil Shova Shrestha and help punish the culprits who have orchestrated such an unimaginably dirty practice against a woman who has been doing extraordinary social service in Nepal.”  

Please read full text here.

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