Once again, our country is in the climax of the political crisis. There had been a complete fears, curiosity and worries on whether the cease fire will last longer. Our hopes were shattered many times. We were betrayed but we lived with hard times. And now, the scenario is a bit different. But still, we still have that kind of worries, little frustration, fury and most importantly a spark of hope with us. We have a hope to see a fresh Nepal with complete revival heading towards the speedy development.
Having talked to
the large number people of different walks of life, I have met 3 different
groups of people putting their views on current political scenario. The view is
about the king, political parties and the Maoists. The debate is always more
focused on Maoists, their roles and people’s judgment on them. A group of
people say, Maoists are idealistic but not rational and it is never possible
for them to win aspiration and support of the people. As soon as they give up
arm, people will attack them, they have some sort of revenge when they killed
innocence people before. No body will vote them and they will never win.
Neither Maoists supremo Prachanda nor any other even top level leader of maiost
has any security or guarantee of life. The second group of people says, Maoists
even though have killed many people in the past, they played the most crucial
roles during this jan andolan and the credit goes to them for educating people
politically and making large number of people aware of the political crisis
of the country. But definitely they are
going to have a tough time in the future and in fact the Maoists should not be
given any chance to lead the country. The third group of people says, the
credit for success goes to Maoists, they have the right agenda and we should
support and vote. These people are in fact inspired by their success in their
war for a cause. These people in reality are not the Maoists workers but the supporter
of Maoists.
A lecturer in a
reputed college of Kathmandu seems to be completely weird on Maoists. He said
the Maoists should never be brought into political mainstream and the war
should go on till they are vanished. I was stunned in fact. The people who have
lost their own loved ones and family members during 10 years of insurgency want
peace, they want leaders to dialogue with Maoists and bring them into political
mainstream and the most debated topics might be about the same for years and it’s
completely ridiculous and a kind of funny joke to talk about any more war in
the country bypassing the bright days ahead.
The most
problematic debate of now day is about arms of the Maoists. Hari Sharma, a
English lecturer in lord Buddha education foundation opines, in 2003 B.S, had Nepali
congress not lifted the arms with them, Nepalese would not see democracy on
2007 B.S.
We youth lack
vision on politics. We see what is seen surfacially. Be it a bitter truth, the
Maoists have played great roles during the jana andolan and in fact have safe
guarded the thousands of protestors. When there were protests, curfew was
imposed and protests were suppressed many times. At the same times, people are
completely against to certain actions of the Maoists such as persuasive
donations and more. But it is us to think that there are 40, 000 Maoists
militia to feed. Why don’t we speed out the talk process, go for arm management
and then announce the republic? If Maoists will continue with such activities
people will not leave them at any cost. There is a fear that the Maoists will conceal
military hardware and a group of Maoists will still be in the jungle with arms
and so on. But how much will they hide? Will we leave them?
To think
neutrally after the long history of Nepal, the birth of any armed forces like
Maoists was inevitable for Nepal but the way of war could be different. If
Nepali congress was armed once but no innocent people were killed. There could
have been lots of good things Maoists could do but they didn’t. They initiated
well but become gratuitously cruel and tortured innocent people and many
families. They have got a good chance to show that they can really do well for
the people and if they lose this, then their so called 10 years of peoples war
will have no meaning and Maoists 10 years of history will be written as BLACK
YEARS. They took hundreds of school children to the street on ashoj 2, which
was a kind of ridiculous now. But in another side of the coin, the school
children now should be educated and taught about the political happenings and
their roles at present and future. Maoists in fact can craft political
awareness but taking out the children to the street is really doesn’t give a
good message. Why don’t even we youth run a political campaign to the school
children? Isn’t it necessary? Have we ever asked them what they want or what
they think of king or politicians or Maoists?
The revolution could be peaceful and it should run in our blood not in oral
cavity with futile words.
Now, there are handfuls
of Member of Parliament (MPs), who are denying passing the legal provision to
bring army under the government of Nepal and change certain legal autonomy given
to them. They so called elected by the people are going against our spirit and
it is the youth of the country to see political happenings to see closely and
act accordingly and time has come to start jan andolan-3 and filter out those
so called politicians completely out of their reach to the government to have
very fast republican set up here.
