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Shame On Four Major Political Parties And Khil Raj Regmi
By KTM Metro Reporter
May 6, 2013: chairman of Interim Election Council of Ministers (IECM) Khil Raj Regmi has damaged his reputation being the rubber stamp of the four major political parties appointing the villain of the People’s Revolution of 2006, Lok Man Singh Karki to the Chief of the Commission on Investigation into Abuse of Authority (CIAA).
Chairman of IECM Khil Raj Regmi is also the chairman of the Constitutional Council (CC). Chairman of CC Regmi has been instrumental to recommend the villain of the people’s movement of 2006 Lok Man Singh Karki to the chief of the CIAA. If the president were to follow the recommendation of the chairman of the CC, and he would appoint Karki to the CIAA, it would not only be shame on President Dr Ram Baran Yadav but it also clearly indicates that the president also is a rubber stamp of the four major political parties.
Lok Man Singh Karki is a disgrace to the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal. He was one of the people holding the top position at the time of the people’s movement of 2006. He was responsible for repressing the people’s movement of 2006, causing the death of so many people, and wounding many more. Now, he is going to be the chief of the CIAA of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal.
Leaders of four major political parties such as UCPN-Maoist, NC, CPN-UML, and UDMF had pretended to forget the suffering their cadres had underwent in the hands of Lok Man Singh Karki in 2006 because they received a jackpot. So, they shamelessly recommended Karki to the chief of the CIAA.
It is not strange that UCPN-Maoist leaders had opted for Karki to the chief of the CIAA, as most of the UCPN-Maoist leaders were criminals and some of them were indicted by the law court but by virtue of the power they were still free but time would come when some of them would need to serve the jail terms.
The strangest thing was the NC president Sushil Koirala often liked to boast that only his party could safeguard the democracy totally ignored the members of the central committee of the NC asking him for not recommending Karki to the chief of the CIAA. Has the President of NC Koirala right to claim being the savior of democracy?
Why Chairman of CPN-UML Jhalanath Khanal needed to listen to the voices of the cadres against the appointment of Karki to the chief of the CIAA when his party needed money for the upcoming elections. None of his colleagues opposed the appointment of Karki to the chief of the CIAA.
None of the Madheshi leaders and their cadres raised any voice against the appointment of Karki to the chief of the CIAA. Probably, the jackpot has played a role in keeping them mute.
We Nepalis thought that after the people’s movement of 2006, the people of high integrity would govern Nepal but the recommendation for appointing Karki to the chief of the CIAA indicates that criminals would be appointed to the key positions of the administration, and they will govern the country.
So-called leaders such as President of NC Sushil Koirala, senior leader of CPN-UML Mahdav Nepal, and his colleagues KP Oli rejected by the voters in the elections of 2008 have been making headlines in the Nepalese newspapers. They had been major actors in not crafting a new constitution but they continued to influence their respective parties.
The ruling of the Supreme Court of Nepal had opened the legal gate to appoint Karki to the chief of CIAA. Such ruling of the Supreme Court of Nepal has made room for Nepalis to think whether the court has been an independent even after Nepal became a Federal Democratic Republic.
People suffered and wounded in the hands of Karki in the people’s movement of 2006, and members of the civil society have rallied against the appointment of Karki to the chief of CIAA. However, who is going to listen to them when the criminals have the major role in the political and administrative decision-makings?
The four major political parties have recommended a commission on Truth, Reconciliation, and Whereabouts of Enforced Disappearance going against the provision made in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, and the President shamelessly rubber stamped it. International and local human rights organizations have raised voices against it stating it has been more for pardoning the criminals rather than bringing them to justice, and compensating the victims of the criminal activities of both the state and the then CPN-Maoist.
Nepalis could not expect political stability in Nepal whether the current IECM could hold elections or not. Even if it holds the elections, the 33 political parties including the CPN-Maoist would not make the elections legitimate. Even now, the nine districts of Eastern Nepal have been under seized protesting against the updating of voters’ lists. Traffic and regular businesses of the common folks have been shut down. Chairman of IECM Regmi has not shown any courage to resolve the problems of such shutdowns. If the one criminal after another were to get appointment to the key position of administration, and murderers continued to play a vital role in the political parties, Nepalis would not remain mute.
