The Seven-Party Alliance (SPA) government decided to postpone elections of constituent assembly indefinitely. Nepal Communist Party (Maoists) succeeded to persuade/pressure other parties for an agreement that will do no good for the country.
Though I had already predicted in my earlier post that the elections would be postponed, the news of postponement shocked me and made me numb. As any other average Nepali, I believe the unstable situation should end as soon as possible and elections is the only way out of any unseen problems that may arise in future.
Politics is illusion. At least true for Nepali. Only yesterday, after listening to a speech made by a labor leader in a small gathering, I have asked a few others, is politics is all about illusioning people. Same for us – our leaders are keeping us in an illusion while in fact, they have proved themselves as un-visionary as possible.
Our leaders are not only making us believe on their ill-vision but are also not telling us the truth. Past has shown us that all out leaders have failed. PM Girija Prasad Koirala might have been nominated for the Nobel and he might be the only hope today, but he had a troubled history where he had failed to understand even his own friends at the party.
Maoists have proved themselves to be childish in politics. The ‘Roundtable Conferene’ is just an example where they even failed to envision what an average Nepali understood – that it’s not possible to decide on future of the country leaving out Nepali Congress and CPN-UML.
There is a simple logic behind all these failures. Their decision are more based on political ambition and party’s benefits than national interest or intellectual analysis.
The decision to postpone elections of constituent assembly too followed the same logic. Maoists do not want it as they knew what people thought about about. Congress’ old leader may be willing to solve all this for his credit but he will not mind getting a few more days at the position. Only CPN-UML want anyway, and they have already declared the protests of the decision.
Sadly, we are once again being deceived and I sincerely hope this postponement won’t be counter-productive for the democracy in Nepal.
