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Tourism Year of 2011 And Nepalese Politics
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
February 27, 2010: Prime Minster Madhav Nepal has opened the Nepal Tourism Year of 2011 (NTY of 2011) lighting a lamp brought from Lumbini: the birth-place of Gautam Buddha at a special function held at Tundikhel in Kathmandu on February 26, 2010.
Celebrating NYT of 2011, Nepal aims at bringing in millions of tourists despite the arrival of a little over a half million tourist every year. Nepal has no physical facilities to accommodate the foreseen number of tourist arrival; so, the NYT of 2011 is another festival that Nepalis celebrate causing tremendous inconvenience to the citizenry. Kathmanduites have to go through the nightmare of traffic jam while Mr. Nepal is at Tundikhel enjoying the various cultural programs put to show at the function of the NYT of 2011.
Speaking to the reporters at the function of the NYT of 2011, Deputy Prime Minister Bijya Gacchedar has said that the economic development should not be politicized but mostly the political people and leaders are seen in the function of the tourism year.
Political leaders have committed to stop launching Nepal shutdown to make NYT of 2011 a success but how long they will keep their commitments remains to be seen as they have already made Nepal a semi-failed state and they are moving forward to make a full fledged failed state soon not writing a new constitution and not completing the peace process on time.
Through the mouth of the Minister for Communication and Information, the Madhav administration has already floated the idea of promulgating a summary constitution leaving most of the contentious issues to the people, and to be decided by referendums on the issues.
The Madhav administration has not been able to print even Machine Readable Passports (MRPs) most possibly due to the conflicting interest the Prime Minister and the concerned Deputy Prime Minister have in printing MRPs. So, the Madhav administration has canceled the proposal of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for printing MRPs in India and has asked the ministry for calling fresh bids for printing MRPs causing delay in printing MRPs and not meeting the deadline of issuing MRPs starting on April 01, 2010.
At the same time, the Civil Society leaders have been concerned very much with not completing the writing of a new constitution on time and the Madhav administration pushing Nepal to a failed state have held a 48-hour (starting on Thursday and ending on Saturday morning) sit-in at the Constituent Assembly (CA) building at Naya Baneshvor in Kathmandu to put pressure on the Madhav administration and the political parties for promulgating a new constitution on time.
Speaking at the functions held in Damak and Pokhara on February 25, 2010, Chairman of UCPN-Maoist Prachanda has said that the peace process and constitution writing tasks would not complete until a government of his party is installed; and has accused of some elements attempting on disrupting the peace process and writing of a new constitution for installing a feudal system in Nepal.
