NEPAL IN TROUBLE: WHO IS RUNNING THE SHOW IN KATHMANDU ?

[Below posted today are two short notes received from Kathmandu. We found both notes of some importance to post here. The Indian Spy Agency RAW,  Research & Analysis Wing, is recently blamed for having been 'kinda helper' of Peshawar Army School December 16 Massacre but the accusation made so far does not seem holding any water. Indeed, the agency has earned notoriety in Nepal and the region also. Nepal has suffered much at RAW's hands in recent times. Its Founding Chief R. N. Kao was personally involved in Bangladesh's liberation and also the 1975 merger of Sikkim into India. The Chief Mr. Kao had prior knowledge of, dubbed also as the 'Father of Bangladesh' President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's assassination plot. So, to warn of the lurking danger in December 1974, he had personally visited President  Rahman in Dacca but the latter didn't take the warning any seriously. President  Rahman was assassinated on August 15, 1975. It is mentioned all in detail in R. K. Yadav's book Mission R&AW, published last year from New Delhi. But there is no mentioning, at all in the book, of Nepal Palace Massacre 2001. Should a sovereign country's army chief get golfing around with RAW Nepal Chief and giving away him winner's trophy in the activity like that ? As of Prof.  Kamal Krishna Joshi's assertion below, that may not happen so soon but people may feel pleased the former Princess Himani evolving as a 'uniting force' in the country. Who knows ? But it is only a wishful thinking.  - The Blogger]

RAW CHIEF AND NEPALI POLITICS

[So much so that Nepal's Chief of Army has made himself available to hand over the winner a trophy is reflective of also which way the wind is blowing in Nepal at a time when everyone is anxious about what will happen by January 22, 2015.]

By Sher Gurung

Nepal Army Chief General Gaurav SJB Rana handing over the winner's trophy to
RAW Nepal Station Chief Prabhat Sinh (left) after CG Motocorp Open Golf
Tournament at the Gokarrna Golf Club in Kathmandu.

This photo is of the RAW chief, so to say, Indian spy agency - Research & Analysis Wing Nepal Station Chief Prabhat Singh receiving a golf trophy from Nepalese Army Chief General Gaurav Sumsher Jung Bahadur Rana. What is most astonishing here is that this photo was published by The Himalayan Times daily from Kathmandu and which proves that it was printed with consent from the people pictured in it. Nowhere in the world can one find intelligence agency chief wishing to be exposed in a daily newspaper that would jeopardize his personal security. 

And, in a country like Nepal where Government of India has regularly complained that the country's soil is being misused by anti-India elements, Mr. Prabhat, it seems, wants to become popular among the people by misspelling his surname as 'Sinh'. Or why on earth the daily would misspell the last name ? After the attack on Indian Embassy in Kabul, extra security has been provided to Indian Embassy personnel throughout the region but, if a senior official like Mr. Singh himself wishes to post his photo in a large scale daily newspaper, what can the host government do about this? 

So much so that Nepal's Chief of Army has made himself available to hand over the winner a trophy is reflective of also which way the wind is blowing in Nepal at a time when everyone is anxious about what will happen by January 22, 2015.

(For the news-report please check the The Himalayan Times. -The Blogger)

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COLLAPSE OF THE NEPALI STATE

[The only hope now rests on return of King Gyanendra. He has become King twice earlier in the most bizarre of circumstances. On both occasions, nobody thought that he would become King. He could go to the Guinness Book of World Records if he becomes King for the third time.]

By Prof. Kamal Krishna Joshi

Former Prime Minister Deuba of Nepal is definitely a very simple person, very few people can actually understand what he says. Just like Prime Minister Sushil Koirala, he has some problem in the tongue. Tragedy of Nepal's republican order is that at this crucial time, leaders are not even audible. Now, he says that the present interim constitution can easily be the full-fledged constitution of Nepal ! Nothing can be more sillier than this.

Firstly, why did Nepal spend so much of taxpayers’ money in second Constituent Assembly Elections? Is he ready to return his salary and perks? Are the other 601 ( multiplied by 2) looters who have amassed millions, ready to return their salary, travel allowance and perks in this costly exercise? Is the international community ready to say sorry to the Nepalese people for troubling us two times in a row in a futile effort that has resulted in absolute zero?

Come Jan. 22, it maybe a vertical collapse of the state. Already there is shortage of essential supplies, recurrent strikes have been announced all over the country but top leaders are still enjoying their heightened ego. Khadga Prasad Oli wants to become Prime Minister, Subash Nemwang wishes to be the President, Bamdev Gautam wants to become UML Chairman after Oli's ascent to the Singh Durbar prime-ministerial seat, Ram Baran Yadav wants to cling as long as he can in the Shital Niwas Presidential Palace and we the helpless people are stranded inside our houses. What a shame! 

The victory of the BJP in India and Modi wave being seen in television channels has aroused so much Hindu sentiments in Nepal, that even political party leaders are openly voicing their support for a Hindu state. Dr. Shekhar Koirala said in a channel yesterday that "the 12 point agreement signed in Delhi in 2005 did not have republic, secular and federal issues. If the agenda of secularism, republicanism and federalism was in the Jana Andolaan (People's Movement 2006), probably it would not have been successful."

The only hope now rests on return of King Gyanendra. He has become King twice earlier in the most bizarre of circumstances. On both occasions, nobody thought that he would become King. He could go to the Guinness Book of World Records if he becomes King for the third time.

Let us wait for this truly historic occasion!