[Is it the first step towards the disintegration of Nepal? Is Oli to be blamed? Who is then the next Kazi Lhendup Dorjee of South Asia? That’s all.]
By N.P. Upadhyaya
It is time now to check the very
nationalistic credentials of Nepal’s Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli.
Abundant reasons are there to do so.
The entire Nepali population got stunned the manner
Nepal’s apex Court in a very mysterious manner gave the verdict in favor of the
one Nepali national who is on record to have taken mother Nepal as …titute. (We
feel ashamed in writing in full as to how he pronounced mother Nepal)
He may have personal grievances with the
Nepali rulers for a variety of valid or even invalid reasons but the way he
took mother Nepal in a most repulsive way does tell that he perhaps takes his
own mother as the same to what he has talked of mother Nepal.
Though we want to clarify in clear terms that
we honor and respect the mother of this Nepali national who has pounced upon
and used words that the people in a civilized society prefer not to make such
derogatory remarks. One can stoop so low?
While PM KP Oli claims that he has signed an
agreement with the declared secessionist, Dr. CK Raut, and that the “man of
determination” Mr. Raut claims that he has abandoned his entire activities that
were aimed at the secession of mother Nepal and that he, Mr. Raut, accepts and
recognizes the territorial integrity and the ever unchallenged sovereign status
of this country.
He however, doesn’t reiterate in words but
gives an impression that henceforth he shall refrain from making any such
attempts that shall split the nation.
But his agreement with the State fizzled out
and took an ugly shape when the next day of the signing of the covenant with
the State, Mr. Raut indirectly encouraged his followers in Janakpur to shout
slogans that completely ignored the spirit of the just inked arrangement that
had been signed a day ahead.
PM Oli and his Maoists Home Minister Ram
Bahadur Thapa repeatedly say that the secessionists voices and political
overtures that were being made in certain quarters inside Nepal all have come
to an end and that Nepal was now safe from the evil designs of the inimical
forces both from within without.
Minister Thapa is confident that Dr. Raut has
been tamed. But is he?
Now the question is that if Dr. CK Raut had
been comfortable with the PM Oli designed “peace agreement” then his followers
would not have chanted slogans that signaled that Raut’s “movement” had not
come to an end but instead the movement per se had been even encouraged by the
executive chief of the State who tentatively accorded Dr. Raut a rousing welcome
to what may not have been granted even to our brilliant sons of the soil
Comrade Prachanda and Dr. BR Bhattarai while being in Delhi’s hospitality at
time of their export to Nepal in 2006.
The Nepal Maoists though were pawn of the
Indian regime but yet they never talked of splitting the nation-state.
The question is also that whether PM Oli and
the so called free for all system went to the fold of Dr. CK Raut or the latter
was brought to the mainstream democratic politics by abandoning his somewhat
horrible demands? Time will only settle this conflicting issue. We at this
paper at the moment fail to understand the very trick of this agreement as to
why and how and who made all these funny events to take a formal shape and that
too all of a sudden?
And who shall benefit from this particular
vague agreement ultimately?
While we honor and possess sympathy for Dr.
CK Raut’s trials and tribulations that he endured, as he claims in his book,
while coming all the way from his childhood to a matured secessionist-scientist,
however, we still would love to question as to which factors prompted him to
negotiate with the government to which he hates and takes them as Pahadiya
rulers, in order to provide a safe landing to his almost uphill task which is
what had been the creation of an Independent Madhesh nation” by splitting the
mainland mother Nepal? Is he tired now?
Or the present agreement is just a dangerous
ploy engineered by him enjoying the secret backing of some declared alien
forces who wish to see a fractured Nepal much the same way the Nepal Maoists
tried during the mid-nineties with the tacit and all out support from the New
Delhi regime under BJP rule led then by Atal Behari Bajpayee. As stated
earlier, the Maoists did not talk of dividing Nepal into several pieces.
While we understand the caliber and the inner
capabilities of this young Nepali scientist that Dr. Raut is by all means,
however, we fail to understand as to why Professor Sukh Deo Muni, the number
one Nepal hater that he has proved himself to be, is all of a sudden more than
happy with the fresh political development in Nepal which talks of an agreement
in between the Nepali State with Dr. CK Rauat? He congratulated both PM Oli and
Dr. Raut. Muni’s poking nose into exclusive Nepali affairs has ever harmed this
country.
This is puzzling and equally dangerous in
that this Indian Professor as and when he pokes his nose into the exclusive
nepali affairs, things take a catastrophic turn as was evident in the Nepal
Maoists case while the latter were residing in New Delhi and had been pouncing
upon their own mother land.
We have words of praise for Dr. CK Raut in
that whatever he has done or spoke against Nepal has been done by being right
inside the Nepali territory. This is an act that demands admiration from across
the entire section of the Nepali society.
Raut’s intentions could have been different
but yet he practiced his democratic rights not from an alien land but from the
land of his own birth.
Thanks Dr. Raut. But yet his trusted men have
spoken in international forums much against Nepal’s Pahadiya oppressive rulers.
But several questions remain yet to be
answered by Dr. Raut.
Firstly, he has to take his highly derogatory
words back with which he has abused his own motherland.
Secondly, instead of apologizing for his
erratic activities done in the past in the name of Free Madhesh, he has yet not
said that he henceforth shall abandon his demand for a free Madhesh.
Thirdly, if he would have changed his mind
and heart for all that he did in the past, should have explained his complete
dissociation with those erratic acts at time of the gala conference with the
Prime Minister KP Oli just the other day when he signed the agreement with the
State. He skipped and was not apologetic and thus left the people to keep on
guessing as to wait for his would be step?
Fourthly, he should have through the same
meet held in Kathmandu wherein he signed an agreement with the State sent an
appeal to his diehard followers in Janakpur and elsewhere not to get themselves
engaged in the same activities that were aimed at the creation of a free
country in South Asia-Madhesh. But he deliberately ignored to convey
conciliatory message to his followers back in his area of hold. Why? This must
have some meaning then.
Fifthly, what is the guarantee that even
after signing an agreement with the State, Dr. Raut shall refrain from
continuing the acts for which he was taken as a secessionist and jailed several
times in the past?
Sixthly, Dr. Raut, the highly qualified
Nepali national that he is, must have taken oath after signing the agreement
with the State that he will do all that he can in order to bring in development
and prosperity in the nation and work day and night in order to bring smiles in
the faces of the population residing in the Tarai –Madhesh plains of Nepal for
which he had been fighting for long, if one were to recall.
Seventhly, Dr. Raut so far has not
reprimanded his Janakpur followers for chanting unwarranted slogans? What makes
him to keep this silence which in many more ways than one provides the brainy
intellectuals to suspect his changed credentials? Has he changed?
The former UML leader Bhim Rawal and Comrade
Narayan Kaji Shrestha are the only two communist leaders who have out rightly
made comments against the agreement in between the State and Chandra Kant Raut.
Some nationalists have been found crying in
Facebook and Twitter which is at best they can do instead of coming to the
streets if they really were true to their nationalist credentials. But not even
a single man has come to the street against the agreement that was signed
definitely in a haste. Crying in the Facebook makes no sense.
It is this haste which gives some credence to
the theory that this agreement has been “imposed from above” by some alien
forces, near and far, much the same way as had been the case with the 12 point
agreement, the Delhi sponsored design to damage Nepal to which it did with
calculated finesse.
Interestingly, instead of the 12 point
agreement from Delhi, it is the 11 point agreement sent from……?
To recall, it was this Indian Professor Muni
who had lured and brainwashed Dr. Babu Ram Bhattarai along with Comrade
Prachanda to sign one security agreement with the then BJP regime in New Delhi
wherein the Delhi residing Nepal Maoists agreed to remain sensitive towards
Indian core security concerns and in lieu promised that Nepal will have to
kneel down and later shall be forced to come under the Indian orbit.
However, Dr. Raut’s case may not be that.
Having said all these, it could be well
guessed is that the present agreement between Dr. Raut and PM Oli is not only
their brain work but instead they have been assisted by the same “inimical
alien lobby” which is very close to both the Prime Minister and the other
contracting party. It is presumed that some invisible forces may have brought
the two conflicting parties to the table and then began the coercion of the
Judiciary. Great game indeed.
Yet the people claim that Nepali judiciary is
independent.
It would not be out of place here to remind
the readers that India has vowed to split Nepal much ahead of 2030.
If so then it must be the first step towards
that end. Should this mean that it is the beginning of the end of Nepal?
Very interestingly, Prime Minister K P Oli,
the highly perceived by the Indian leaders and bureaucrats as a China man to
which he is not, has stunned the newly appointed Chinese Ambassador as she
could not even think of such a dangerous development to have been taking place
in Nepal while she was dancing to the tune of a Nepali song on the evening of
March 8, 2019.
This speaks of the present state of failed
Chinese diplomacy in Nepal. The new Ambassador has failed because Nepali
nationals living in the bordering Tibetan part of China too would prefer to
demand for greater autonomy first and then to secede from the mainland Nepal.
Nepal’s split shall not go unnoticed in
Tibet-China.
If so then that would be a grave issue for
China to tackle with time permitting. The height of China’s diplomatic
negligence.
What has been paining now Bhim Rawal, the
former UML leader, shall eventually pain the entire nation?
Politician Bhim Rawal must not have been
talking to the Nepali media against this agreement but perhaps he is speaking
against this “Oli-Raut Pact” because he has perceived the looming threat over
the nation.
But Mr. Rawal and Narayan Kaji are advised to
bring this issue to the party’s central committee and initiate debate as to why
Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli preferred to revive the sad and callous memory of
Kaji Lendhup Dorje of the sovereign Sikkim era?
These two NCP leaders claim that without
having a debate on a matter sensitive as the one signed with Dr. Raut, PM Oli
has made a solo decision which is likely to boomerang for chances remain that
Dr. Raut may take the whole agreement game as a step up for achieving his
desired objectives. But why they don’t bring the issue in the party for debate?
Impotent leaders.
PM Oli though has just claimed that on issues
like Nepal’s territorial integrity and sovereignty no referendum of the sort as
may have been in the minds of Dr. Raut’s followers could be entertained.
But how Raut rebukes PM’s threat will have to
be watched. Give it any name, the fact is that the great game to split the nation
has begun with a big bang.
And very freshly, Dr. B R Bhattarai too has
demands adequate clarifications from both the signatories as they have been
interpreting the agreement suiting to their preferences.
The use of the word Jan Abhimat in the second
paragraph of the agreement has confused many a brains in Nepal.
While the government side interprets the word
Jan-Abhimat as a mere exercise of collecting opinions of the people for a
certain issue then the side that represents Dr. Raut and demands the existence
of Free Madhesh claim that the government has agreed for a referendum and if so
the people of Terai-Madhesh shall vote in favor of Free Madhesh.
Having said that, as of writing this story
Dr. Raut is silent. Things will come to the fore as and when Dr. Raut speaks
his mind and explains as to how the agreement signed with the government should
be interpreted.
But will Raut’s followers listen to the
changed stance of their fire brand leader - the champion of the Free Madhesh
movement?
For the road: Veteran politician and senior
economist of the country, Dr. Prakash Chandra Lohani has said that PM Oli has
himself fallen flat while thinking that his agreement with Chandra Kant Raut
shall come as a big surprise for the national population. He has ventilated his
inner feelings through his fresh Twitter account.
Likewise, Dr. Rajesh Ahiraj, a veteran
political scientist/journalist has bluntly advised Indian Professor S D Muni to
concentrate his mind solely for the benefit of his nation-India and not to poke
his nose on Nepali issues.
Is it the first step towards the
disintegration of Nepal? Is Oli to be blamed? Who is then the next Kazi Lhendup Dorjee of South Asia? That’s all.
