Senior political personality, now in hibernation these years after the fall of Nepali monarchy, Prakash Koirala has said while talking to the Nav Chetana online portal that if Nepal has in its possession a strong party then the country remains in a stable condition and that is a primary prerequisite for any nation to develop.
Political instability has almost become a permanent sickness in Nepal over these years and thus whosoever it is, Right, Left or even Centrist, all that Nepal needs now is political stability principally. And now we have a tentatively a stable government after a long gap, but yet question remains intact whether the fresh unification of the UML and the Maoists center and the government thus formed lasts for more than six months or not?
“Because we do not possess our own keys of the nation with us any longer”, lamented Koirala.

But where is the key now, he however, did not say but in an oblique manner hinted that things were outside Nepal’s borders.
Dr. Bhattarai, a JNU graduate too had spoken on these lines much similar to what Koirala has begun reiterating as regards the keys. (Stress added).
The only difference is that Dr. Bhattarai was nursed by the Indian establishment during the people’s war but Prakash Koirala enjoyed serving his own government led then by the now ousted King Gyanendra in 2005.
“Because over these years, Nepal as a nation-state has lost its political persona in that our foreign policy remains “limited” to the affairs of India and China only, declares Koirala.
According to Koirala, across the length and breadth of the country, all have begun talking that since Nepal PM Oli has recently been blessed by the Indian PM Modi and that is why our politics and the political parties now much depend on the Indian establishment. Isn’t that? Koirala asks.
Talking of the Nepali Congress President SB Deuba, Prakash Koirala wished to remind the Nepali population as to how Deuba took the Indian imposed economic blockade on Nepal that time?
It appeared that the Nepali Congress supported the Indian blockade on Nepal, Koirala added.
Take it for granted that the day the Indian establishment terminates its tacit support to the incumbent government in Nepal, the countdown shall begin instantly, said Koirala in a determined manner.
Is PM OLi still a Nepali leader with excessive India leaning then? Or else why senior Koirala could dare to talk on these lines?
On the contrary, China, Nepal’s northern neighbor never interferes in Nepali affairs and I have never experienced or even heard from any quarters in Nepal that China has interfered in Nepali affairs, explained Koirala his personal experience as a Nepali leader from the NC party primarily who later aligned himself with the Royal institution.
Elaborating China policy towards Nepal, Koirala bluntly told the online news portal that since China doesn’t trust Nepali leaders and thus inevitably suggests the Nepali leaders to be in close contact with India as and when the Nepali leaders meet their friends in Beijing or even in Kathmandu.
Interesting revelation indeed. Is it the trust deficit factor? The Chinese know it better.
Talking once again on unification of the two Nepal communist parties, senior political leader Mr. Koirala raised a very pertinent question as to what may have forced KP Oli to have preferred the unification of the UML with the Maoists.
“I am puzzled observing this unification and forced to think as to what may have compelled KP Oli to unify his own UML party with that of the Prachanda’s Maoists, said a completely baffled Koirala?
This in effect, is the general question of the domestic population also as to how and why these two diametrically opposing communists parties till the other day preferred the unification? What for?
Let the matured political observers in Nepal and elsewhere make it a point to go deep into the matter as to why this unification?

Coming back to his former party, the NC, Mr. Koirala said that he at times himself remains in confused state and fails to ascertain as to what sort of the party the Nepali Congress is at the moment? Is it a Rightist or a Leftist party? What is the leaning after all of the NC? I am myself confused admitted Koirala who for a comfortable period of his political career remained associated with the party to which his own father gave birth but for having joined the Royal government, Mr. Koirala was declared persona non grata for the NC.
Though his own younger brother Dr. Shashank Koirala is the NC’s general secretary.
“NC has abandoned all the structured policies and the established political philosophies in which the ideals of this party were based upon initially”, lamented Koirala.
Since then Mr. Koirala prefers not to mingle with the common men but prefers instead align himself with the forlorn Nepali monarchy and his followers.
For Prakash Koirala, of all the present day Nepali leaders, in his eyes only one political personality has stood tall among the crowd of many political forces in Nepal.
“It is Prachanda, the former Chairman of the Maoists who alone deserves the distinction of being taken as a national leader or else the others ( read political men from various parties) are the ones who have only copied his slogans that he used to reiterate in the days of the Maoists revolution, Koirala lauded Pushpa Kamal Dahal.
Prachanda invented these slogans while residing in NOIDA, New Delhi, if one were to recall.
For example, the notion of Republicanism, federal order and secularism were all the slogans of the Maoists to which the UML and the Nepali Congress copied verbatim, opined senior Koirala.
I would now suggest the Nepali Congress to renounce the “copied slogans and tell the countrymen across the country that the idea of turning Nepal into a Republican state with federal and secular characteristics were not the NC’s slogan.
The party must tell the population that these were not our catchphrases primarily, added Mr. Koirala.
Mr. Koirala also made it clear that Nepali Congress had its structured policy and that was democracy together with the monarchy. However, the present day Nepali Congress abandoned the Royal institution summarily and deviated from its enunciated principles at times of the party’s very inception and thus the present day down ward slide of the once vibrant Congress.
“The NC and the Royal Institution were synonymous to each other for several decades and thus why should I or even the entire NC paraphernalia feel ashamed in accepting the notion of democracy with monarchy and reiterate once again the same slogan that we have had in the past, questioned Koirala.
PM KP Oli has not for nothing preferred to attend to the BOAO conference that was recently held in China but instead was seen excited to land in Delhi first. Why? Just keep guessing as to why Oli preferred India over China? This perhaps explains Oli’s New Delhi’s inner inclination towards Indian establishment.
Mind it, China has now acquired a forward looking foreign policy, Koirala summed up his tete-e-tete with the Nav Chetana online news portal.