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Jail A Holy Place For Me: Khum Bahadur Khadka
By KTM Metro Reporter
August 22, 2012: leader of NC Khum Bahadur Khadka today surrendered to the Kathmandu District Court and went to jail for serving 14-month term for amassing a huge wealth mismatching his earnings. The Supreme Court of Nepal had convicted NC leader Khadka of corruption and awarded him an 18-month jail term and fined him Rs 9.47 millions on August 14, 2012. As NC leader Khadka surrendered to the Court, his penalty would be reduced by 20%. He had been a notorious corrupt minister in the past. NC cadres had been protesting the ruling of the Supreme Court of Nepal on the corruption case against NC Leader Khadka by shutting down the businesses of the common folks in the home district Dang of Khadka. They wanted the corrupt Khadka declared innocent.
"Jail is not a new place for me. It's a holy place for me," nepalnews.com quotes Khadka as saying before entering the Kathmandu District Court to surrender. By saying so, NC leader Khadka had spoken truth, as jail was really a holy place for all criminals. They atoned the sin of their crimes in jail. After 14 months Khadka might come back to his party as a clean man. In fact, his supporters did not think he was a criminal rather an innocent man that had been wrongly implicated in the corruption.
Some of the NC cadres believed that NC leader Khadka was a hero. Certainly, for them Mr. Khadka was a hero, as he amassed a huge wealth to nourish them, and flourish them at the expense of majority of Nepalis, as most of the money allocated for development works had been pocked by such a criminal as Khadka.
Some political and economic analysts believed that the penalty awarded to such corrupt criminals was a drop in a bucket in comparison to the damaged they had done to the nation. Millions of Nepalis had been suffering from the short supply of drinking water and power because of the corrupted rule in Nepal. Only the cadres of political parties benefited from the corruption. So, it was natural that NC cadres protested against the ruling of the Supreme Court of Nepal on awarding Mr. Khadka the penalty. Naturally, NC cadres also believed that Mr. Khadka was an innocent, as the cadres believed that corruption was a natural phenomenon for their party; so it was not a criminal act for them. Shame on all such cadres and their leaders for calling Khadka is innocent.
