Political fatigue has gripped the Nepali Congress.
Symptoms to this political exhaustion could well be observed in what the NC leaders speak these days which contains seeds of Himalayan frustration caused to the party that saw depressing election reversals very recently.
Being the oldest party formed in an alien country some seven decades ago, the NC appears that with the age advancing, the party is not only losing its relevancy in the national politics perhaps due to the sluggishness as stated earlier but also losing its political strength, left if any, because lack of unity among the top leaders is weakening the party from within.
The party admittedly remains in a fragmented state.
The NC saw catastrophe in the recently held parliamentary election, many believe, due to the fact that none of the leaders of this party could dare to take the imposition of the Indian economic blockade as to have been an Indian act which must not have been imposed on Nepal by India.
Not even a single NC leaders pointed fingers towards India. Total submission that it was by and large.
NC’s love and honor for Indian establishment remains no more a secret.
It was this total obedience, at least this much was visible at time of the great Indian obstruction, that the Nepali Congress was penalized by the voters to the extent that some of its own “nationalist” leaders preferred not to cast their votes to their own party’s candidates and thus the poll disaster.
The fatigued NC thus speaks anything under the sun to malign the ruling party under the command of UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli.
The NC is thus in a way performing like a good opposition party.
NC Parliamentarian Dr. Minendra Rizal directs his gun towards Nepal PM Oli by saying that “do not cut jokes and insult others while making lectures here and there, but instead engage yourself in the development activities of the nation”.
In a way, Dr. Rizal is offering good suggestions to PM Oli in that cutting jokes or for that matter insulting others was simply the waste of time which, by implication says Dr.
Rizal, could be utilized in nation building task.
Though it may appear that Dr. Rizal has suddenly fallen in love with the Nepal PM Oli but it is not that. In fact, Dr. Rizal takes PM Oli as a communist “dictator in the making” who believes that all that the latter has been doing will be better for the country ultimately.
“I suspect that this communist government may follow the dictatorial path eventually”, so said Dr. Rizal while talking to a set of media men in Butwal yesterday.
He added by saying that “the one who has this vast majority in the national legislator should indulge in nation building mission rather than cutting jokes at others”.
Dr. Rizal won the parliamentary polls from Morang district while Dr. Shekhar Koirala lost the election.