N. P. Upadhyaya (Aryal)

Biratnagar: The founder of psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Carl Gustav Jung, was a Swiss national and had the credit of founding the analytical psychology who rightly said once that “You are what you do, not what you say you will do”. This Swiss word of wisdom more or less fits into Nepali politics wherein the acts of our “uneducated” leaders differ from what they more often than not repeat. At times some fanatic leaders talk sense but then it is too late by then. The words and deeds thus differ sharply.

Some even opine that the “brainless” Nepali leaders are just proxies to the Indian administration in Delhi and that they are ruling the nation just to portray that an independent and sovereign Nepal well exists on the world map and that it runs under capable leadership of the aforementioned brainless politicos elevated by the Indian regime across the border.

This practice of being ruled by the newly independent Indian Republic began right in earnest the day, I would say, the darkest day ever for Nepal in its chequered history, which forced Nepal’s new administration to remain under the command of Pandit Nehru, the Indian Prime Minister. It was this Indian Prime Minister who acted both like Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for the ever-sovereign and independent Nepal. He talked softly but acted rough with Nepali rulers. Pandit Nehru was hawkish.

The day King Tribhuwan landed in Delhi and submitted himself and the entire nation to the mercy of the former British colony, the Indian regime, Nepal’s slide began to surface distinctly.

King Tribhuwan gained so-called “democracy” with the premeditated arbitration of the Ranas and the King (supported by the men demanding the overthrow of the Rana oligarchy) as against submitting the entire nation to the then South Asian hooligan that India was and is still. Delhi’s unequal agreement is still taken as a curse for Nepal.
King Tribhuwan thus returned Kathmandu with the tag of a “traitor” as the country entered into the deep blue ocean voluntarily. It was an Indian trap aimed at subjugating Nepal for all time to come. The King’s landing in Delhi then allowed the Indian regime to twist the arms of Nepal since then which, unfortunately, remains even more tightened as of today.

Very freshly, the Americans too apparently have entered Nepal’s political scene.

The Nepal-India bilateral Treaty of Peace and Friendship 1950 is not an unequal one only but has proved to have benefitted India as the Treaty as such has been designed by India’s authoritarian regime in such a way that Nepal can’t escape from the clutches of India. A year earlier, Bhutan too had entered into the Indian ambush.
Some provisions in the said Treaty necessitate Nepal to seek prior permission for the import of some “materials” that the sovereign nation needs for the maintenance of law and order in the country.

And to put it bluntly, the so-called Treaty of Peace and Friendship has neither allowed Nepal to live in “peace” nor a true friendship worth name exists in between the two nations. However, India-bend scholars do not subscribe to this view for some “special” reasons.

Our bilateral ties, often repeatedly claimed as a friendship that has no parallel in contemporary history, is an excellent “farce” which awaits grand exposition by the timid Nepali nationalists worth name.

But who will expose it? The RAW paid and posted ones? Not in my lifetime.

The RAW recruited agents across Nepal exceed the true nationalists frankly speaking and it is this “free availability” of the “Kazi Lhendup Dorjes” that has given speed to the Sikkimisation process of Nepal.

As far as we understand, the complete Sikkimisation of Nepal will not exceed the 2030 limit as the groundwork has, in our opinion, almost completed.

Observers suspect the very airlifting of President Paudel to Delhi must have some political meaning underneath. But what? Is it to speed up Sikkimisation? Keep on guessing.

Highly placed sources say that President Paudel’s candidacy for Nepali Head of State was an Indian choice and preference to ensure Paudel’s candidacy, Indian Foreign Secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra landed in Kathmandu this year mid-February.

The “elements” and the ingredients” that the Indian regime needs at the time of gulping Nepal are ready and awaiting its final assault on Nepal.

Curse be on those who being the son(s) of mother Nepal has vowed to serve India much similar to what and how Sikkim’s Kazi Lhendup Dorje was hand-in-glove with Madame Indira Gandhi’s Indian government during the mid-seventies.

Fortunately, when the sovereign and the independent Sikkim became the new province of India, the Kazi went to see Madame Gandhi expecting that the Indian Prime Minister will talk high of Lhendup of his “treason” but to the traitor’s surprise the Indian Prime Minister did not see him saying that “his job was over” and that “a man who cheated his own motherland can never be trusted”. This could be an example of the traitors of Nepal. Lhendup returned to Gangtok and later died an unsung death.

He is still being recalled by his countrymen with distaste/revulsion and some even take the late Lhendup as a “traitor” who submitted his own motherland to the Indian regime willingly.

In our own country, some “quisling” intends to copy the stance taken by the Sikkimi political man and appear willingly in a mood to seize sovereign Nepal as the most crowded nation on earth, that India is.

Enters Dr. Shekhar Koirala:

Dr. Shekhar Koirala belongs to the same Koirala family in Biratnagar which gave three Prime Ministers to Nepal at different intervals in Nepali history.

 

Dr. Koirala is also a noted Physician who in the recent past commanded the post of the Vice Chancellor of B. P. Koirala Medical Institute in Dharan.

His uncle late Girija Prasad Koirala apparently brought him into politics and he is active in Nepali politics for a decade or so and commands respect and honor from his party men, the Nepali Congress.

However, sources say that Dr Koirala is not that satisfied with his own party president Shri Sher Bahadur Deuba’s steering of the party in a manner that a democratic party of the NC should function.

It is alleged that the sitting president of the Nepali Congress is running the party through a small coterie presumably headed by his own consort lady Deuba much to the chagrin of the rank and file of the party.

In sum, president S. B. Deuba is taken by his own party colleagues as the most undemocratic and deserved expulsion from the party summarily. The fact is that the NC is the most undemocratic party in Nepal.

Despite grand distaste by the party men, Deuba is continuing as the president of the NC party.

Sources close to physician Dr. Koirala say that late discontent against Deuba’s dictatorial rule is increasing inside the party paraphernalia yet no end in sight of his term-end, not Deuba willing to correct his working pattern.

Some others even claim that President Deuba has tacit linkages with the Indian Prime Minister Narender Bhai Modi which party insiders claim bodes ill for both the nation and the NC party.

Deuba remains undeterred.

Modi’s friendship with President Deuba will remain intact as long as Deuba awards India the Nepali resources for free.

Sharp critics authentically claim that Lady Deuba draws strength from her clandestine linkages with some high-flying ruling party functionaries of India.

Others say that the lady has very freshly made some Bharatiya Janata Party, BJP, upper echelon political man as her “RAKHI brother” and it is this Indian brother who apparently controls the NC party in a secret manner. Some guess he is Bijaya Chouthaiwallah.

Back to the point:

Dr Shekhar Koirala in recent days appears dead against the Maoists Prime Minister’s calculated plan to distribute two lakhs each to the Maoists soldiers who were found unfit as per the standard procedure applied at the time of the peace negotiations.

The idea is to lure the unfit soldiers for fear that they out of vengeance may one fine morning dare to attack their own party Chairman Prachanda aka the current Prime Minister of Nepal.

Dr Koirala forcefully opines that the “allocation of such a staggering amount to the unfit soldiers can in no way be justified and thus it would set a wrong precedent. Notably, Dr Koirala too is supposedly close to the Indian regime.
Dr Koirala is against the PM’s decision to allocate the stated amount as compensation for the soldiers’ role that during the People’s War days assisted Prachanda to damage the nation.

If the unfit soldiers obeyed the Maoists Chairman Prachanda then, by implication, Prachanda had obeyed the Indian regime which provided him with the secured shelter of the RAW Spy agency while being in Delhi under the Indian design.

Needless to say, the Maoists People’s War in itself was an Indian drawing with the sole objective of damaging Nepal’s basic infrastructure so that Nepal ever could not develop and depended on the benevolence of the enemy regime across the border.

Bluntly, Prime Minister Prachanda himself is the brainchild of the Indian establishment who while residing in Delhi had made several commitments to the then Indian government commanded then by Atal Behari Vajpayee as Prime Minister of India.

Highly placed Nepali sources realistically claim that Prachanda and Dr. Babu Ram Bhattarai while being the most wanted guest of the Indian regime had approached PM Vajpayee through Brajesh Mishra, the national security advisor of the Indian Prime Minister.

Both the Maoist leaders were introduced first to Brajesh Mishra through Professor Sukh Dev Muni, the fake Nepal expert before meeting the Indian PM Vajpayee.

Professor Muni has in his book on Nepal perhaps admitted the fact that he managed a meeting with an Indian security advisor.

Reports say that Prachanda and Dr BR Bhattarai signed a document wherein it is stated that “we shall remain ever friendly to the Indian government and that when in power in Nepal shall ever look into the prime security interests of the Indian regime”.

Sources say that it is this document signed on June 06, 2002 that compels the Maoist leaders to abide by the dictates and commands of the Indian government.

“Failing to abide by the signed commitments, fear is that India will drag the Nepal Maoists’ top hats to the Hague Tribunal”.

So it is this fear that compels Dr Bhattarai and his former boss Prachanda to act verbatim in support of the Indian regime.

So what scares the general Nepali population is that “India will suck every drop of blood during Prime Minister Prachanda’s upcoming visit to India”.

In fact, India has already captured Nepal’s mighty rivers and its power and now it is eying to keep Nepal under its security umbrella much similar to Baby Bhutan.

King Gyanendra had to abandon the Nepali throne only when he rejected the Indian proposal of becoming an Indian protectorate a la Bhutan. It was this King Gyanendra’s summary defiance that he had to quit the throne.

India’s posted and paid Nepali leaders uprooted the institution of monarchy which is more or less like a sad history of this once sovereign and independent nation.

Finally, I wish to end the article with one quote from William Shakespeare who said, “The hell is empty and all the devils are here”.

Did he say for Nepal? 

That’s all. 

-A delayed posting: Ed.