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Why Are You Angry With Statues?
By KTM Metro Reporter
January 28, 2012: Dr. Saphalya Amatya has published an article titled ‘Why Are You Angry With Statues?’ in the ‘gorkhapatra’ of today. Dr. Amatya as a student and scholar of the Nepalese history should know the reasons why Nepalis are mad at the statues that have been standing at the crossroads. Removing the statues of the then Rana prime ministers from the crossroads of Kathmandu and dumping them at Tundikhel, Mahendra had done a great service to the people, as those statues had been the reminder of the dark period of the Nepalese history when Nepalis had lived not only in destitute but also at the mercy of the then Ranas. None has any words that could express the injustices Ranas had inflicted on the Nepalis. So, Mahendra had rightly removed the statues of such people that reminded Nepalis the injustices.
Dr. Amatya has wrongly credited the Shah kings for removing the Rana rule. Again Dr. Amatya as a student of the Nepalese history has deliberately distorted the history of dismantling the Rana regime. Brave Nepalis had tore down the Rana regime not anyone of the Shah king did but Tribhuvan seeing the opportunity of taking the power back went to Delhi just to reach the agreement with the Ranas sideling the Nepali Congress that had lead the people’s movement against the Ranas.
Tribhuvan enjoyed the luxurious life while Nepalis had suffered from the poverty, injustice and destitute. Thousands of Nepalis had sacrificed their lives to tear down the Rana regime but Tribhuvan tricked the Nepalis people to give him the power back to his hands.
Dr. Amatya should know that the statue of Prithvi Narayan standing at the crossroads near the Nepalese secretariat building in Kathmandu just to remind the Nepalis of the injustice he had inflicted on the people. He cut the noses and ears of the Kiritipurians because they had defeated his assaults on Kirtipur several times. Prithvi Narayan sowed the seeds of the unjust rule of the Shah including the 104-year Rana/Shah rule of injustice. During this period Nepalis had nothing but poverty, diseases, injustice and subjugation.
Mahendra killed democracy and returned the country back to the injustice, subjugation and arbitrary rule that had lasted 30 years. Hundreds of Nepalis had to sacrifice their beautiful lives to bring back democracy. Dr. Amatya should know why Nepalis don’t want to see the statues of those despotic rulers if Dr. Amatya is sincere to the Nepalese people.
If Dr. Amatya wants to be fair to Nepalis in general and do justice to the statues of the despotic rulers, he should fight for preserving the statues of his dear Shah kings at some museums rather than Nepalis getting them destroyed at some point of the time, as they have been reminding the injustice, dark history, poverty and diseases Nepalis have suffered from the long rule of the despotic rulers.
