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Dreaming To Return Back To Throne
By KTM Metro Reporter
July 9, 2012: encouraged by a handful of people shouting slogans for coming back to throne during his recent visit to southern Nepal and some people going to congratulate him at his residence in Kathmandu on the occasion of his 66th birthday on July 8, 2012, Mr. Gyanendra Shah must be dreaming that Nepalis people want him to make a comeback. He has even said to his supporter, “ Be patient, if the people want I would make a comeback.”
Mr. Shah became the king on the dead body of his brother king and the so-many dead bodies of the royal family members after the 2001-palace massacre, only to be a commoner in 2008 after the people movement forced him out of the palace.
Mr. Shah should know that a few hundred people supporting him are not all Nepalis but a fraction of the total population. So, the large number of the people that have benefited from firing Mr. Shah out of the palace would not allow Mr. Shah to make a comeback. So, his statement of making a comeback only increases the anger of the people at him. Nepalis have not forgotten that the royal family had kept the majority of the people in poverty and almost in slavery during the 240-year Shah dynastic rule.
Prime Minister Dr. Baburam Bhattarai has already warned Mr. Gyanendra Shah of taking away whatever the benefits the government has been providing him. In fact, Mr. Shah should have been on trial for killing so many people during the people’s movement. The government should investigate all his family assets, as those assets have been made on the taxes paid by the people.
Mr. Gyanendra Shah has unwisely stated that he has made a deal with the political party on keeping the ceremonial monarchy. None of the political party wanted the monarchy by 2006, as the monarchy had been the main hurdle to democracy and the socio-economic development of the people. So, the people fought against the monarchy but the Nepalese politicians have been so generous that they have been providing him with a cozy bungalow at the Nagarjun forest even though he has his residence at Maharajgunj, and the security. So, it is time to strip him of all these benefits he has been enjoying at the cost of the taxpayers.
