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Tribute To Notorious Politician Surya Thapa
KTM Metro Reporter
April 15, 2015: five-term Prime Minister Surya Bahadur Thapa passed away at Medanta Hospital in Gurgaon, India at night today. He was 87.
Mr. Thapa was the most notorious politicians, and had contributed to the killing of democracy in 1960. He betrayed his mentor BP Koirala and other Nepali Congress leaders, and became the minister in the cabinet the then monarch formed after dissolving the parliament and banning political parties in 1960.
Mr. Thapa’s second political misadventure was to manipulate the referendum on choosing between the multi-party system and the ‘improved panchayat system’ held in 1981. He was the prime minister. He presided over the election government and he took more than two months to complete the counting of votes. He made the ‘improved panchayat system’ win the referendum, and sowed the seed of the death of the panchayat and ultimately of the monarchy.
Mr. Thapa ordered to cut down the beautiful trees for timbers to sell indiscriminately to finance the referendum, and win it. Many of his favorites amassed huge wealth out of this windfall causing the massive deforestation. Mr. Thapa earned the reputation of being one of the most corrupt politicians in the country. Even in the world of dead, Mr. Thapa would not live in peace without making political gains for him and his family and relatives. His death must be a great loss to the corrupt politicians.
Mr. Thapa managed to be a prime minister again in the late 1990s when the Nepali Congress and CPN-UML leaders joined the club of the corrupt politicians. The circle of corrupt politicians has begun expanding since then. The circle continued to be larger and larger thanks to the politician emulating Mr. Thapa.
