Nepal: Incompetence advantage!

Incompetence at times benefits politically. Perhaps it is this factor that Nepali leaders since lack competence and not to mention common sense and thus time and again come to power thanks to the kind courtesy of their innocent voters who select or say elect those whom they think that the one who is being awarded with their precious votes was less sillier than the rest.

This means that we the people have been electing our own representatives who are bit less silliar than others. So this is nothing but silly-paradise. Bear with it for some more time to come. This has been the fate of the Nepalese since all along the period after the Ranas handed over power to the democratic leaders.

Looking at the dilly-dallying posture acquired by our august leaders it appears difficult if not impossible that the nation will receive a new constitution on the stipulated time frame. Not even four months are left for the constitution to get drafted, however, the parties visibly appear busy in making and breaking of government. Rightly says Pasupati Rana that it was not the time to engage in making or for that matter breaking of the government of one’s preference but time to draft the constitution on time. However, who cares this lame duck politician that Rana is by all means but he is not a silly politician. He is a highly qualified political persona in the crowd of the illiterates. His party sans people’s base though. It is altogether a different matter that Rana’s political acumen will suddenly increase if the RJP joins with his party in a week time.

But Rana has talked sense, a qualified man does this more often than not, while talking to one of the weeklies wherein he says that the Maoists must not be cornered for, according to Mr. Rana, being the largest party at the CA body the Maoists need to assist in the conclusion of the peace process and timely draft of the new constitution and thus, Rana opines, the Maoists must not be given to understand that they were being sidelined from the mainstream politics. This will boomerand ultimately, Rana observes.

Rana perhaps understands the gravity of the situation and thus maintains that since the Maoists have already become an integral part of the national politics and thus need to be taken in good faith so that they too could assist in the agenda that demand urgent attention from all the major political parties.

So Mr. Rana has some good words for the Maoists but concurrently he claims that the Maoists must dissolve their semi military structure namely the Young Communist League which, according to Rana, has already taken the shape of a full fledged military structure.

Rana also suggests the Maoists to embrace the system now in force and behave that is demanded of them. “The YCL is creating violence and terror and hence this outfit need to be dissolved”, is what Pasupati rana says or say appeals.

In effect, he is talking sense in that a nation-state can have only one army as such. The presence of two different set of armies, of the two, one being politically indoctrinated, for long may invite troubles of the Himalayan order. Rana’s logic is sound and thus we presume that the Maoists will understand the inner meaning of what Rana says and act accordingly and allow the peace process to see its completion which is long overdue.

Rana’s interview freshly published by one weekly has so many interesting points contained therein. At one point the veteran politician, Rana, maintains that the formation of the High level Body was definitely a welcome move, however, the body should not engage itself in making and breaking of the government. Rana in saying so rightly  presumes that the High level Body under the active leadership of the known destructive politician-Girija Prasad Koirala-may goad the Body in the process of change of the government. And the fact is also that Koirala together with his cohorts have already taken steps in that direction. A destructive brain will always think on these lines. No wonder.

Madhav Nepal has thus reasons to be unhappy concluding that the perverted brain-Koirala-may initiate actions aimed at replacing him. And Lo! Prachanda has already forwarded this proposal to Koirala-the number one power greed persona. An elated Koirala now will open the cards that lay under his sleeves.

Though Koirala has denied that he is taking any such moves to topple the Madhav Nepal government but those who understand Koirala better claim that if such nasty actions were not taken by Koirala then he is not the real Koirala who has many a times in the past destroyed this nation to the extent that the Maoists of today are his real creation. Had he not been that unkind towards the Communists in the early 1990s, the suppressed and the oppressed communist may not have taken the form of what the Maoists are today.

It is altogether a different matter that the Koirala-sidelined communists then received the blessings from the neighboring establishment and staged a grand comeback in the country’s politics. But why and for what reasons and under what conditions the Nepal Maoists enjoyed the supportof the Indian regime is not yet clear, however, what is for sure is that such a support from the Indian regime must not have been for free.

To sum up, we have thus typical types of leaders. They differ with each other. What is, however, common in them all is “incompetence”. But the word incompetence has a distinct political advantage to those leaders who are really incompetent. The more one is incompetent, the more he or she has the chance of being in power again and again. Madhav Nepal has this advantage. He is not only incompetent but a political creature who loves to get defeated by his incompetent rivals. Mr. Nepal became the Prime Minister of this country through the kind courtesy of his incompetence but not the othewise. Had he been intelligent, he would never have occupied the Prime Ministerial Chair of this unfortunate country. Perchance if Mr. Nepal is replaced then we will have yet another incompetent Prime Minister who may differ with Mr. Nepal both in size and content of incompetence.

Thus incompetence in Nepal pays at reagular intervals. Stupid brains rule the roost. That’s all.

Posted on : 2010-02-06 09:22:01

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