Pic by Bikas Karki
Mission Palace
Today’s half a million mass, chanting anti-monarchy slogans, was clearly headed towards palace. But, the state again used its weapons of brutality. Today, the state was more ruthless. Yesterday’s patience and restraints were vanished. Yesterday’s movement was a threat, but state has intensified the supression today.
United We Stand: SPA leaders after the meeting
Pic by Prakash Mathema via Kantipur
No Compromise
However, there is silvering lining in the dark cloud. As SPA leaders decided to stick to people power, they truly deserve accolades. This shows that politics-hardened leaders have grown mature, they have learnt from their earlier mistakes. They are also abiding to public pressure. They have shown unity by not accepting king’s offer and being monolithic.
Mobile and Movement
The mobile has been targeted by royal regime every now and then. Coincidently, a plethora of SMSes were circulated yeasterday after the royal address. Moreover, mobile is a handy means to spread infos about the movement. Yesterday, I saw many protesters informing their friends/relatives via mobile.
What Next?
The peaceful protests on the one hand, have been hailed internationally as a hallmark of people’s power while king is being isolated, his myth shattered and subject to scrutiny and critique on the other. Foreign media who basked on the only Hindu king on earth, are now waking up to the reality and are highlighting king’s unpopularity. The movement would probably stop only after its goal ie formation of all party interim government that will be responsible to hold election of Constituent Assembly.
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87 responses to “Protesters Pour in Despite Downpour”
Intermim goverment from SPA and Maoist to hold CA could be proper way out at current moment in Nepali politics.
Dear All,
Intermim goverment from SPA and Maoist to hold CA could be proper way out at current moment in Nepali politics.
Long live the people’s power!!!
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. I think leaders have learnt from the past.Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Nepalese are close to suceess so they shouldnot give up.
do we still need that girija ? whats he doing up there.. someone please shoot him down
Why are these politician hiding to their roof behind gamala, they must be protecting themself from bullets. They should have been down with people not showing their coward face from up. They must have try to explain that they are fine inside maoist are doing their duty we will accept their gulami.
Why are these politician hiding to their roof behind gamala, they must be protecting themself from bullets. They should have been down with people, and not showing their coward face from up. They must have tried to explain that, they are fine inside their home as maoist are doing their duty and we will accept their gulami.
I don’t understand the Nepalese media.
Someone in another blog, which is pretty much reliable, noted that the crowd dispersed after the rain while this guy writes that people were still in outside in the rain.
Who are we to believe? Are we under some information propaganda? Any Kathmanduities around to give the facts?
“Its Raining!
Shyam 4/22/2006 7:17:12 AM EST
Democracy!… What democracy? Its raining! We are going home! The attitude of Nepalese involved in the democratic movement suprised me today. The crowd looked full of vigor, intent on showing their anger against Gyane’s anouncement. They were fighting with the police and army alike…. Then…..
IT STARTED RAINING! and everybody went home. Is our demand for Democracy so fickel that a bit of rain can disperse a crowd of 200,000 strong? Do we deserve democracy? Is it true that what many media has been saying that most people has joined it for a bit of fun and do not actually understand what they are gatting involved in? Is the crowd of some fun seeking people just being manipulated by crafty politicians…”
source: http://www.sebsonline.org
In search of the truth…
hello to all u bloggers,
I’ve been regularly visiting this site and reading all the comments out here. And I’m also
impressed by the level of intellegence of u all. Well, I don’t have that level of intellect
so I’m getting completely lost. I can’t decide which direction to follow. I notice several
perspectives some of which are in concurrence while others completely divergent. Now,
please help me find appropriate path , will you?
Firstly, most of you all are in favor of complete democracy/loktantra. What is this loktantra? What will be the difference in this sort of democracy from one we used to have before the King took authority in his hand? Yesterday he proclaimed that he has returned the people’s possession to people themselves. Then what is this conflict for?
Seven parties-cum-maoists are now demanding for constitution assebly. Could anybody
please explain what is the purpose of such assembly. Now the king has summoned the
7 parties to form an interim government then why won’t they go for it? Ain’t this sort of
government able to form such ‘constitutional assembly’. If not why not and if yes then what’s
the problem now.
Okay say the king remains obstinate as ever then in what way are the people going to achieve
their goal? How long might this protest last? And what will be the economic plight of our country?
Please, I need an explanation after all i’m a naive.
Okay, I’m a simpleton countryman who is able to win his daily bread through hardship. In what waywill my life change after your ‘loktantra or ganatantra or prajatantra’ whatever s achieved. Please explain me enough. Maybe I can also support and participate in your aandolan if i find a reasonable motif. Remember
I’m a naive Nepalese so explain me in such a way that every naive people like me apprehend well.
Thank you
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ya i cant understand why people are still on the street. i think nobody in the protest will be able to answer what is loktantra. is it seven parties sucking ordinary peoples blood, or maoist putting gun in ordinary poeples head and asking them to give money and food
Now mass movement is maiost hands, not in SPA, do any body has any reaction on this?
AND someone please tell me whats the 12point pact between the SPA and the maos ? and i mean all the 12 .. i dont want someone saying CA, republic and then fading away..give me loads of reasons why KG is bad etc..
hoping to see those 12 points in the next blog..
i really wonder those ppl in da streets know what their leaders have agreed behind their back .. so shell it out !!!
This is nothing but a game very well played by the maoists in Nepal. The leaders were in dilemma to accept or not to accept the proposal, they decided not to by bowing to the maoists than anything else.
The state is slowly but surely turing the maoist way.
How will the leaders mainly from the Nepali Congress will be able to negate this prospect is to be seen in the future. Which in my view is impossible looking into the bunch of brainless people in the higher echlon of the NC.
A game very well played by the Maoists but there is India, the US who are looking into the current development in Nepal mainly the prevailing of Maoists sponsored anarchy.
India is afraid of the maoist tactic as Indian itself is facing insurgencies all over in the north east, in the center and in Kashmir. A maoist win in Nepal could give all of them a much needed boost. India fears this also. They created the problem in Nepal, they are giving the solution as well. But for democracy supporters in Nepal difficult days are ahead. We should think positively and preach peace rather than opting for the path of violence.
i heard india is ready to deploy its army in nepal if things go out of hand miserably. they must be watching tv with their mouth wide opened when girija and makuna said no to kings offer. i guess more arm twisting will be done by india, EU and moriarty
Yes, nobody’s information is going to be materialized soon. So, it would be better to save people and nation by SPA by forming a governemnt soon.
REVOLUTION IN NEPAL
Statement of the International Secretariat, League for the Fifth International,
22 April 2006.
The revolution in Nepal has reached a critical moment.
In direct defiance of the King’s daytime curfew and a shoot-to-kill order, a tidal wave of workers, peasants and youth is flowing into the capital Kathmandu. Hundreds of thousands, many carrying the red flags of the Communist Party, are singing and chanting slogans for an end to the absolute monarchy of King Gyanendra, for a republic and an elected Constituent Assembly.
Reports are coming in of the mass demonstrations defying tear gas, plastic bullets, baton charges and live rounds. Police cordons have been broken through. Young people, women and children are among the marchers. Workers – many of them women – are pressing forwards behind trade union banners; young men are engaging riot police with petrol bombs.
The police and army have withdrawn from large parts of Kathmandu and – in a clear sign both of the regime’s panic and the movement’s immediate next task – have formed a defensive circle around government buildings and the King’s palace in the very centre of the capital.
Yesterday the King, manoeuvring in the face of a two week long general strike against his fratricidal autocracy, made an apparent concession: to agree to talk to the opposition about involving senior figures in government. The Seven Party Alliance (SPA) of opposition parties met today to consider Gyanendra’s gambit. But the mass protests continued – the streets filled with people. Under this pressure the SPA parties rejected Gyanendra’s trap and – at once, as if in reply – the protests were swelled as hundreds of thousands marched from the outlying districts into the capital.
There is little doubt that the regime is paralysed. The forces of repression are falling back. A bold offensive today – smashing the police lines, seizing the government buildings, surrounding the army and police barracks, occupying the main transport centres, capturing the palace, arresting the King and his ministers – can bring a swift end to Gyanendra’s regime and open the road to the social transformation of Nepal.
Another condition for a successful revolution is also undoubtedly present – that the masses are prepared to die. Western journalists reporting from Kathmandu repeatedly quote demonstrators as saying just this. “We are ready to sacrifice our lives for the nation because we are about to be killed, but we are not concerned about that” one marcher told the Guardian. Another told the BBC “I am not afraid, I do not fear the government. Every Nepalese person here is willing to give up their lives in exchange for freedom.”
The two-week long general strike has fully confirmed the classical analysis of Lenin and Trotsky that a general strike poses the question of power and demands an unambiguous answer to the question “who will be master in the house?” And it is this question that the Seven Party Alliance has utterly failed to answer.
Since its formation in 2005 after Gyanendra dissolved parliament and established autocratic rule – the SPA has demanded three things: the restoration of parliament; an interim government to supervise elections to a Constituent Assembly; and for the Constituent Assembly to determine the fate of the monarchy.
This programme perfectly expresses the aims of the SPA’s component parties. The bourgeois and liberal nationalist parties want to reopen space for their own participation in the political process and government, not to allow the masses to rule themselves. Hence they want a government of professional parliamentarians that can control the election of a Constituent Assembly itself, without allowing the masses to influence the process; hence they refuse to declare in advance that the monarchy must be abolished and replaced by a republic.
Most shameful of all, the Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist-Leninist) – the main party of the urban workers – participates in this bourgeois bloc and limits its own demands to a capitalist democracy. Its crowning slogan is not a workers’ and peasants’ government, but a ‘Multi-Party People’s Democracy’. In the crucible of revolutionary struggle it has offered neither guidance nor a revolutionary programme for the overthrow of Gyanendra’s regime.
The masses have already burst through the limits of the SPA’s cowardly three point programme by calling for an end to the monarchy. The BBC reports one teacher saying that Gyanendra “is only offering us what he had snatched from us in 2005,” when he abolished parliament and assumed absolute power. A housewife added “Nobody is happy with what the king said. We want democracy and freedom. So many people have died. What for? So that the king can continue to live in his palace and appoint and dismiss prime ministers at will?”
Will the pressure of the masses be sufficient to force the CPN (UNL) cadres to send its 15,000 strong militia into battle now to overthrow the monarchy and seize the power? Only struggle will decide.
The next step for the toiling masses of town and countryside is clear. To arms – for an insurrection in Kathmandu! By boldly confronting the soldiers, marching right up to their lines, appealing to them as the sons of workers and peasants, breaking their loyalty to their officers and their resolve to fight their brothers and sisters, their families, on the streets, the army can be torn apart. The soldiers’ guns can be turned over to the people. The revolutionary youth and workers can take up the arms in the fight for freedom.
In place of the SPA’s three point plan for capitalist stabilisation and continued monarchical rule, consistent democrats, communists and all those who want freedom should fight for:
• the execution of Gyanendra and his dynasty
• establishment of a provisional revolutionary government of workers and poor peasants, excluding the bourgeois parties;
• not a cabal of seven party leaders but democratic councils of workers’ and peasants’ delegates to supervise elections to a Constituent Assembly;
• a workers and peasants government based on delegate councils to give land to the peasants, nationalise the key levers of the economy under workers control and create a democratic plan of production
• spread the revolution across south Asia – for a socialist federation of south Asian states.
The revolution is the harshest judge of the parties that represent the popular masses – only the revolution can put their programmes and policies to the test and see if they are wanting or if they meet the needs of the workers and peasants. And the revolution is cruelly exposing the vacillation and hesitation not only of the urban parties but also of that most feared party of the revolutionary peasants – the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist). Led by Prachanda, the CPN (M) has been conducting a long guerrilla war in the countryside. The suffering, poverty, land hunger and oppression of the peasants has provided it with an ample soil in which to take root. Its self-sacrificing militants have conducted a long and heroic war against the landlords and the army.
But the CPN (M)’s programme is a classic expression both of the inconsistent aims of the peasantry and the political incapacity of Maoism. Like all Maoists, the CPN (M)’s adherence to Stalin’s model of a revolution by stages, in which the masses must restrict their goals to the formation of a democratic (Bourgeois) republic and refrain from leading the workers to power, has inevitably led them to accommodate to the bourgeoisie.
The Maoist party fails to understand the need for the urban workers to take a leading role in the revolution. It has suspended its guerrilla war for the duration of the strike but does not appear to have made its guns available to the masses to launch an insurrection in Kathmandu. Its leader Prachanda only weeks ago renounced the call for the abolition of the monarchy, arguing (in adherence to the policy of the SPA) that the fate of the monarchy could be decided after democratic rights have been won, and even that the monarchy might be preserved for a time under Maoist government. Thus Maoism, despite its determined use of guerrilla methods and the undeniable courage of its cadres – reveals itself to be at best a populist force like the SRs in the Russian revolution, at worst a fifth wheel on the chariot of the bourgeois liberals.
Today the battle is deepening and spreading. The task of insurrection cannot be postponed. Either the masses demands will be met, and Gyanendra will meet the fate all autocrats deserve, from the Romanovs to the Ceausescus, or the SPA, CPN (UNL) and CPN (M) will grant his vicious regime a much needed breathing space and fritter away the huge reserves of determination and hope that the selfless actions of the masses have unleashed.
If Gyanendra flees – and already the Indian ruling class is readying itself to accept the world’s last Hindu monarch into exile – the greatest danger will be the smooth assumption of power by the SPA, leaving the army and repressive apparatus intact and the bourgeois parliamentarians free rein to restrict popular representation and pursue a neoliberal programme of attacks on the poor. The independent action of the workers and peasants, the arming of the working people, the establishment of workers and peasants councils are their best line of defence. The bolder the actions of the masses in the struggle to overthrow Gyanendra and his criminal gang, the greater their power after the revolution, the stronger their defence against counter-revolution in the stormy months to come.
The crisis in Nepal shows that even in countries where the modern working class is a minority, its leadership is the factor on which the fate of the whole people depends. Lenin’s insistence on the need for the hegemony of the proletariat in the democratic revolution, the complete independence of the workers’ party from the bourgeois liberals – is again confirmed as critical for victory. Trotsky’s theory of permanent revolution – that today the bourgeoisie is too weak to solve even democratic tasks consistently – is again confirmed. The twenty-first century is not a time in which the revolutionary events of the last 150 years fall into abeyance, but an epoch of wars and revolutions.
The workers and peasants of Nepal are fighting out this great drama in the full view of the world. The outcome of their struggle will have a direct impact also in India, where a billion people are watching. Victory to them!
International Secretariat, League for the Fifth International, 22 April 2006.
http://www.fifthinternational.org
A Naive nepali,
Constituent Assembly is a bunch of people elected in purpose of drafting or adopting a new constitution.
Back in 1990, I remember Communist parties were demanding Constituent Assembly. Ofcourse they were comparing the situation in Russia of 1918 with the situation of Nepal at that time. Nepali communists parties are very much impressed with how Russians managed to form the Constituent Assembly after the overthrow of Tsar Nicolas II.
One thing about it is that it can act as a parliament itself. It can pass laws, bills and it can be divided into committees and sub comeittees. In India it was formed in 1946 and in 1947 it was converted into a Parliament formally. Then head of CA Dr.Rajemdra Prasad became the first president of India.
In Nepal, we still don’t know how it is going to work. Maoists think that they can be elected in the CA and take the charge of the new constitution or new parliament ( if there will be any), it should be noted that other parties are / were not so keen on doing it. Nobody is talking about refferendum on the fate of king, nobody is talking about the other solutions… so you can see I am more naive than you when it comes to nepali politics.
I’m also thinking that the reactions by Indian politicians are easiest to understand from the viewpoint that they are afraid of their own revolutionary people. But Nepal should have her own way. If Maoists will come in the government in Nepal, India and America just have to accept.
soulsearching,
12 points pact is supposed to be a secret : )) I asked about that few days ago too .. nobody got any idea.
Is our country Gyanendra’s property? that whenever he wants he can take power from the people and give it back to them when there’s a threat!
I think u should change this site’s slogan to
“We Blog For Peace And Democracy In Nepal… by kicking out the so called royals”
Do we have any choice?
Simply put: we can’t trust Gyanndra. People view him as:
1. a smuggler of artifacts and wild animals and their parts
2. leader of anti-democratic forces. He demolished whatever democracy we had in last 5 years.
3. believes and prefers to practice in absolute monarchism, “king is god”
5. Murderer: Most of the Nepali population believes that he killed the previous king and his family for power.
6. too money minded: He forced the govt. to raise his salary/stipend 8 times, and buy bullet proof Jaguar and a Harley Davidson.
His son (the prince) is worse than him. He is a known murderer who loves to beat policemen and brandish weapons at public. Stupid and lunatic are more appropriate words to describe him. People fear that the prince would be more brutal and trouble maker more than Idi Amin and Bokasa or Pol Pot.
The future looks bleaker than the present. Given such scenario, isn’t it better to get rid of the problems at once?
This is crap. All the protestors vanished as soon as it started raining.
And Naive Nepali,
about your second question about if interim government can call for Constituent Assembly elections, I am not very sure about it.
Look you need to understand that each and every drafts which our lawmakers create needs the approval of the King to become a law according to our constitution. This is a very tricky one. Raja B was a clever man, he did manage to include many things in constitution which our leaders that time simply ignored. King is untouchable when you flip thorugh the pages of our constitution.
King is cornered and he knows that. He has two options either to face the consequences by the hands of mobs or to declare the current constitution invalid and call for the election for CA. Whatever Girija says, whatever Makune says, they know that it is like giving power to Maoists. You can’t deny the fact that Maoists control the majority of Nepal , and having election at this time for CA means .. alright take a guess. Parties are very weak in the local level, they can’t expect to dominate.
Parties have two options too. Go with Maoists right now, throw Raja G by anymeans, play football with his head and leave Nepal in the hands of fate. Second option is take the Raja’s offer, include Maobadi buddies in the cabinet, make the environment for ANY kind of election, then go for constituent assembly election. But well we can’t say anything, it is for them to decide
I think somebody above said that 12-point understanding was supposed to be a secret. It is not. Follow the following link for the text of the first 12-point understanding between SPA&M. Second understanding has nothing new:
http://66.116.151.85/?p=2264
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What happened if SPA has agreed on this PM Vacancy Announcement ?
1. Will not get any support from people and Maoist
2. Will not be able to negotiate with Maoist, since King will not agree on CA
3. After 6 months he will again say “Hey, you guys, why you can’t conduct election, Get out of my way.”
4. If somebody believes on what he says, then there must be two problems – either he/she should be a CHAMCHA or a KHUSKET
5. Till and until RNA is with Gyane, nobody should trust him.
6. Mahendra seized power and never give it back to people himself. His son Birendra did. If Gyane won’t give back the power, do you think Paras will give us?? N E V E R. He is a maniac. He will kill at least 10 times more people than his father did.
APOLOGIES FOR TYPING ERRORS IN ABOVE STATEMENT:
1. Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist-Leninist) of course abbreviates to ‘CPN (UML)’ not ‘CPN (UNL)’.
2. It is of course not the CPN (UML) that has a 15,000 strong militia, but the CPN (Maoist).
glade,
thanks a lot buddy..u made lots of thing clear too me..enlightened me more than wikipedia 😀
For those of you who still think you need king, you can have him for free . The president of the USA,most powerful person on the planet makes about $400000/year where as this blood sucker king takes $7.7 million dollers from poor people of Nepal and claims to wipe people’s tear out! you should not be supporting king unless you are his cronies or of course out of mind.
prorepublican
Harry Sharma,
The source you site is a random website — not a reliable news source.
Glade that was a good explanation
Mr. Hari Sharma:
Do you really know what happens during protest and revolution? Have you ever seen one or been part of it?? ha ha ha…… poor fella….
You were trapped in those walls inside budanilkantha all your life, and knew nothing what’s going around, and you are telling us to read those shits in SEBS online…… ??? shame on you….
you might be good and great in reading A levels and other shit……. but my poor hari, he does not have any practical knowledge…. he just knows how to be critique, but he does not know what does it takes to be a critique……… know about and be a part of revolution, to understand what that means, rather than barking with those empty languages of your books…..
Actually, George Bush gets paid $200,000 a year. all this other wealth is from his own personal earnings when he was not in office (he owned an oil company and a baseball team, among other things. He was a legitimage businessman, so he is wealthy,. but he’s paid a very reasonable salary as president. the one good thing i can say about George W. Bush right now)…
$7.7 million? You’ve got to be kidding me. And most of Nepal’s starving to death or getting killed by diseases that are easily treat/prevented while this cellulite filled weirdo gets $7.7 million?
I wouldn’t stand for it.
btw who cooked up those numbers? i think it just startd with a chain mail..rather like a hate mail..this guy earns this much an bla bla bla.how can u know its true ? right now its like everything KG is taken for granted..anything said against him is right..am not defending him..but grow up..stop writing n number of blogs based on that mail..anyway KG has soaltee to run, factories, tea farms etc.. the royals are rich man..accept it..and btw have any one noticed how girija is looking healthier since 1990 ? he looked like he just came from a ghetto there ..thin n frail..think democracy did him a world of good now..he even got his own home now !!!
The role of the Monarch is not anymore required in Nepal and that is the bottom line. No need to make your point with the numbers. It doesn’t matter how much he managed to ‘suck’ outta poor pockets of Nepali people. Addressing corruption at this point is simply not going to help SPA either. I wonder where Maobadis stand here. They also managed to acquire fortune during the period of times. Was there some book keeping or we are never going to hear anything about that ? Would be interesting though
Melissa you are giving impression that if Raja G were thin and fit you wouldn’t even bother to utter a word against him : ))
I Salute Nepali people in this movement. I want to see the autocracy fleeing from Nepal within 24 hours.
🙂 Glade, it’s not that that’s the main thing of him I don’t like.
Obviously his crimes against humanity (that’s become quite clear since the protests) and the fact that he demands $$ for being born into a family are much more horrific. Also, police and army crimes are rampant in the villages of nepal and this King, who’s appointed himself the head of the army, does nothing about it.
His fatness, however, is a symbol of his greed. The world can see his gluttony due to his disgusting figure. That’s my take on it anyway.
The presence of a fat monarch, in a country that’s one of the poorest in the world, makes me angry.
It was very easy for the SPA to accept the offer by being open to the people and the maoist. They just need to be clear on their agendas and make it public. 1 week to form the govt with a new PM and council of ministers then 3 days to send a proposal for reinstatement of parliament… if the king does not agree then we know what his intentions are, SPA govt resigns from the govt immediately and ask the king to leave with the help of people. Step up SPA leaders, you can achieve all the things you have asked for within a month if you be clear to the people and maoist. After revival of the parliament the SPA can change the constition with the majority of 66 % votes which is not a problem if they are for the people. Constituent assmebly election after maoist lays down the arm, UN or 3rd party intervention during the constituent assemly election is also accepted as long maoist returns to a democratic force by renouncing the violence. If we going for only the demands the SPA has put up then that is achievable by accepting the offer right now.
But, if we want to get rid of the monarchy then we can go forward with more protests, curfew bloodshed and risk that maoist may run over at the end.
Try the first option for 2 weeks but, if the king is not willing for revival of house, constituent assembly election and change of constitution with 66% parliament vote then people know that king is not willing to follow the 1990 constitution and get rid of him with a final push.
By the way president Bush salary is $500,000.00 not $200,000.00… it was $200,000.00 till Clinton time but, increased after his term.
Melissa:
I asked you this before but why are you totally OBSESSED with weight issues?????
Did anybody hear what Sachit Samsher Rana said on BBC radio today?
He said that the Saturday’s demonstrators are not Kathmanduites, and so the domo does not have any significance and so on…
This reveals how sick and mean mentality the people in the palace have. Rana thinks he still bears that hukumi shree-3 title.
How he dares to label Nepali citizens that way!
Aren’t the people from out of ktm Nepalese?
Well, he might then say, even if they are Kathmanduites, they are not Rana or Shaha!
Rana himself sliped the reason why people are dying for their sovereignty.
B. Pundit, I thought I made it clear on the previous post, but the king’s weight shows his greed and his gluttony.
It is disgusting that he’s so fat when most of the country is starving. This is just my opinion and not the gospel truth, so you are free to disagree.
Hey Melissa:
Girija Prasad Koirala is a tall lanky man with optimal body fat content… he was one of the most currupt/greedy men in Nepal. Perhaps you should use other indicators then just body weight… because someone might just have a very slow metabolism.
I think glade’s explanation pretty much sums it all. The king should agree to put the monarchy at stake and the monarchy’s fate should be debated publically and decided by a proper election process.ANd the present constitution is not capable in performing these tasks. So, it should be scrapped off.
There are a lot of hindrances in the middle though.
Before, we can go into any kind of polls, maoists should be disarmed./ because with them armed people of nepal will never be able to cast a free and secure vote.
Maoists disarmment is a bigger process in itself. the state then has to decide the fate of all thoose maoists gurrillas who were until now fed upon by parallel taxes or extortion money that maoists gathered.
The road ahead is very hard and full of obstacles. but we have to face them and try to untangle them step by step.The power will be and should vested upon us to decide everything that goes on in our country.
This is an example of people power, this movement. We must understand that we shouldnt be a silent public as before when so called democracy was restored in Nepal. we should be watchful and cautious, of the political parties. Then only, we can build a stable goeverntment at the centre which can then think of development and economic revive of the whole country.
May lord Pashupati Nath give power to all of us! I, promise to you lord! that we will fight everything that will go wrong with our country.
Jaya Nepal.
Rabin,
I am not so optimistic about the 10 days plan, but I agree with you on one thing. And that is constituent assembly election should only be held when Maoists lay down their arms and make the environment for the fair election. Talking about CA election right now is like asking for Maoists to draft the new constitutation of Nepal.
Glade,
I was not trying to say we go for constituent assembly election in 10 days… all I was trying to say is that SPA can take the opportunity to check if the king is willing to play by the books… in 10 days SPA can form a government and put forward a proposal for the revival of the parliament, if the king does not accept the proposal then resign and get the people support to get rid of him. If king accepts the revival of parliament then make all the necessary arrangements to go for the constituent assembly election and changing the constitution itself… the 1990 constitution only allows the working parliament to make all the changes with 66% majority. Since, SPA is demanding the revival of parliament then it can be achieved in 10 days, the question is do we want to trust the king one more time or not. During these 10 days the SPA has to be very clear to the people and the maoist what their agenda is.
But, if majority of us still want to kick this monarch out then we all need to be prepared to sacrifice more lives before we achieve it. I totally agree why we should keep on feeding this expensive elephant whose maintenace cost itself is in millions??? One more thing to worry is that with the collapse of monarchy the security system may collapse as well which may give an easy ride for the maoist.
NEPAL STUDENTS’ UNION, USA & Canada Chapter
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Press Statement
Warning to Seven Party Alliance’s Leaders.
Beware!!! Beware!!! Beware!!!
Chairman Gyanendra Shah’s Speech to the Nation could not address the People’s roadmap to peace, democracy and the demand of the constituent assembly.
Now leaders have no option but to recognize the bottom line – an election to constituent assembly. It is only the demand of the people. We don’t want to be fooled anymore. We warn our SPA leaders not to be another Sher Bahadur Deuba.
Mr.Chairman’s speech is just a conspiracy to divide the unity of Seven Party Alliance. Chairman Gyanendra Shah has violated the constitution of 1990 and it is a “DEAD CONSTITUTION”. NSU USA & Canada Chapter demands for a new constitution through the election of constituent assembly.
The royal speech has failed to address even the agenda of seven-party alliance. We appeal to leaders, not to be confused by this ploy. Thousands of people are in the streets chanting anti-king slogans with a hope of establishing a new Nepal, People’s Republic of Nepal. People are ready to sacrifice their lives to make New Nepal. SPA leaders must fully commit to their roadmap to peace and democracy and cannot go against the people’s desire expressed in the street protests.
Mr. Chairman has also failed to address the demand of people’s movement that aimed to resolve the existing crisis through unconditional constituent assembly. Therefore, the leaders of SPA must not betray people by compromising with the king. If they do so, they will be punished by the people.
Now it will be easier for us to go for Republican set up as Chairman Gyanendra Shah has himself paved a way for a republican Nepal. The ongoing movement must not stop unless a fair election of Constituent Assembly is held.
We are in 21st century and the demand of this century is Kingless Nepal. Nepali people have decided to move forward leaving the King behind to 17th century. There is a saying,” Time and Tide waits for none”, including Chairman Gyanendra Shah.
Lastly, NSU USA & Canada Chapter urges again and again to the leaders of SPA that please do not be like Mr. Sher Bahadur Deuba.
Sincerely,
Somnath Ghimire
President
NSU USA & Canada Chapter
New York, USA
April 21, 2006
Rabin,
yes the question of the day is how much worth the King is to be trusted. He is obviously under a lot of pressure, he knows very well that it is end of the monarchy in Nepal, he has clear idea that things are not going to be the same again. And I am pretty much sure that he too is busy thinking his way out. The million rupees question is, is he cooking something up ? He miscalculated a lot in past. He underestimated the power of democracy and followed his father’s path, he managed to have ears for crooks like Giri, Bista and Thapa. He played all his cards wrong. He wanted to be that father figure of nepalis which nepalis of current time actually give rat’s ass about. Instead of going along with political parties and solve the Maoist insurgencies, he managed to bring latter two together. Yes he’s a failure and he knows it very well. His concern right now should be saving his own skin and after seeing this mass of people I don’t think he will ever think to fck up with people again.
Should we give him another shot or not ? NO … a big NO. We don’t want him anymore. But I don’t think marching into Narayanhiti and creating a bloodbath is the solution for it. I don’t think he is going to put a big obstacle in the daily affairs of new interim government ( if there would be any ).
Glade,
You are talking nonsense. Why do you afraid from Maoist who are fighting for ten years for empowering Nepali people? Quit your idiot ideas!!