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Dummy Prime Minister Madhav Nepal
BY KTM Metro Reporter
June 22, 2010: Madhav Nepal has been a living dummy since he became a Prime Minister in May 2009. He could not do anything independently. He had either to wait the order from late Girija Prasad Koirala when he was alive or from his colleague KP Oli that has often channeled the order from their bosses in India. Now, he has been taking the order from Acting President of NC Sushil Koirala.
His government has not been able to formulate polices and programs. He has been begging the favor of the NC leaders particularly the Acting President Sushil Koirala for cooperation on preparing polices and programs of his government before he really quits the job but Sushil asks him not to be in hurry but stay on the position until ‘I ask you to quit.’
Sushil has been busy with making a Prime Minister of a new government sidelining the UCPN-Maoist. He has no ambition to be a Prime Minster but he has been facing the dilemma of choosing a new Prime Minster. When he said, “we need to follow the NC statute for choosing a candidate for a Prime Minister” means the parliamentary leader automatically becomes the Prime Minister, obviously, opting for Ram Chandra Poudel to be the next Prime Minister creating an uproar at the Deuba camp. Former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has challenged the validity of Sushil’s rule of law saying Madhav Nepal is not the Parliamentary leader of his part CPN-UML but he has been the Prime Minister. Mr. Deuba has forgotten or ignored that Madhav Nepal does not follow the rule of law nor does his party.
Madhav Nepal alone could not call the session of the legislature despite the Speaker warning him of the need for calling the session of the legislature latest on June 18, 2010 and them submit policies and programs of the government to the legislature to have two weeks time for debating the policies and the programs following the rule of law. However, poor Madhav Nepal as his mentor Sushil follows the rule of law only when he needs to gain from it. So, Madhav Nepal has already missed the latest date for submitting policies and programs of his government to the legislature.
The government cannot submit the budget for the fiscal year 2010 (2067) without the legislature passing the policies and the programs. So, Madhav Nepal has already consulted his legal experts to see whether he can sideline the legislature and use the presidential decree to pass the budget so that his government would not be stuck without having the budget to spend.
The UCPN-Maoist leaders have already declared that they would not allow the legislature to pass the budget for the fiscal year 2010. Madhav Nepal cannot do anything but look on as a living dummy. He wants to get out of his current position but he could not doso as the approval of Sushil has not come, yet.
His six ministers such as Energy Minister Prakash Sharan Mahat, Irrigation Minister Bal Krishna Khand, Local Development Minister Purna Kumar Sherma, Tourism Minister Sharat Singh Bhandari, Labor Minister Mohammad Aftab Alam and Forest Minister Deepak Bohara have been implicated in corruption by the state-run National Vigilance Center. Madhav Nepal either as a dummy could not do anything or he himself is a shady person, so he does not want do anything. However, Madhav Nepal as a Prime Minister goes on advising the state employees to be free from corruption.
