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Nepali Congress Democracy and Current Government
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
On November 4, 2009, the meeting of the Mahasamiti has passed the statute of the Nepali Congress (NC) making provisions for directly electing the President, General Secretary and Treasurer, for the 85-member Central Working Committee, for electing 75% of the 85 members and for getting nominated only 25% by the President. Thus, the NC President has lost the authority to nominate most of the members of the Central Working Committee. So, from now on probably, the Central Working Committee members will not be the syndicate of the sycophants of the NC President as have been in the past.
The irony is that the Mahasamiti has also passed a resolution for calling on the Maoists to join the democratic system when the leaders of the NC have shamelessly violated the Interim Constitution of Nepal of 2007 by asking the President to abuse it for saving the job of a high-ranking soldier, and then they have grabbed the power making the person rejected by the voters in two constituencies a Prime Minister; the NC leaders have been proudly saying that in doing so they have saved the democracy ignoring the political crime they have committed by abusing the Interim Constitution of Nepal of 2007 and all sorts of democratic norms.
Another irony is that the Maoists whom the NC leaders have ironically calling on joining their democratic system have been fighting against the undemocratic and unconstitutional action of the President and for the constitutional order that has been ruptured by the President’s action of directly writing a letter to the Chief of Army Staff.
Nepalis need to understand what sorts of democracy the NC leaders have been advocating when they have been arguing the violation of the Interim Constitution of Nepal of 2007 as the most democratic and did not want to debate it in the legislature. What sorts of democrats the NC leaders are when they do not want to even debate the most vital issue of the President’s unconstitutional action? If they correctly understand democratic principles and values then they should know that nobody is above the legislature, and everything concerning the people is debatable in the legislature. As a matter of fact, the legislature has elected the President, so the unconstitutional action of the President needs to be debated in the legislature.
The Maoist legislators have been holding the legislature hostage demanding the debate over the unconstitutional action of the President in the legislature for more than a month and they have taken the issue to the streets and have held sit-ins at the entrance to the offices of the District Administration across the country on November 4, 2009. The leaders of the United Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (UCPN-Maoist) have been questioning the legitimacy of the current government, as it has come to power through the unconstitutional action of the President.
The current government headed by Madhav Nepal has been possible only after buying the unscrupulous leaders such as the faction leader of Madheshi People’s Rights Forum Bijya Gacchedar, and now attempting to buy another faction leader of the same party Upendra Yadav at the price paid by the leaders of the southern neighbor. So, Mr. Yadav is currently in New Delhi probably for negotiating the prices.
The current government has decided to liquidate the state-owned Hetauda Kapada Udoyog (Hetauda Textile Industry) when the USA and the UK have saved the private banks that have faced bankruptcy in their countries. Former government headed by Maoist Chairman Prachanda has taken actions to run it for producing the clothes required for the uniforms of the military and the police. It would have stopped the widespread practice of the concerned ministers pocketing huge sums of money from the commissions on purchasing the uniforms for the military and the police.
