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Trend Of Splitting Madheshi Political Parties
By KTM Metro Reporter
December 31, 2010: Not even a week has passed since Madheshi People’s Rights Forum-Democratic headed by officiating Deputy Prime Minister Bijaya Gacchedar has split and he has fired the rebellious Sanjay Sha from the Minister of State for Physical Planning and Works; another Minister for Industry, this time belonging to another Madheshi political party called Tarai Madhesh Democratic Party (TMDP) has split it into two pieces.
Minister for Industry Mahendra Prasad Yadav has officially informed House Speaker Subash Nemwang on Friday, December 30, 2010 that nine legislators belonging to the TMDP has made a decision on setting up a breakaway party called TMDP-Nepal. TMDP has 20 legislators in the current parliament
Anybody garnering 40 percent of legislators willing to form a new party breaking away from the mother party can do so following the provision made in the Parliament Act. This Act unfortunately has encouraged the rebellious leaders to set up new parties consequently has split the Madheshi political parties so fast diluting the core goal of these political parties. Strength of any party lies in unity not in disunity.
House Speaker Nemwang has said that the nine legislators have completed all the official procedures to form a new parliamentary party in the House, a new party has been born; the parliament secretariat has to find a space for the office of a new party. Now the parliament will have 28 political parties.
Some members of the TMDP has opined that these guys have set up a new party to form a new coalition with the major parties and have lucrative power-sharing with the major political parties in the new government to be formed soon. In fact, Bijaya Gacchedar has formed a breakaway party just to have the position of Deputy Prime Minister in the Madhav-headed coalition government. Now, one of the legislators belonging to his party has formed a new breakaway party, so does one of the TMDP legislators. The process of breaking away political parties from their mother parties will continue because of the legal provision and the attraction of the hefty reward from doing so.
