Kamal Thapa
Chairman, RPP-Nepal
TGQ1: How you have taken your party’s demand that either a sitting Justice or a retired one should command the election government which has also been subscribed by other parties becoming true? Things have gone your way. In the mean time the NCP-Maoists have alleged that CJ’s choice is very much that of the US and India and are in protest of his elevation as election Head?
Kamal Thapa: The RPP-Nepal had demanded the second round of CA poll in order to get the country out from the current political mess. We had been demanding that to conduct such a poll in a free and fair manner, a neutral and non-partisan election government be formed. It is because of these, we had demanded that a retired or even a sitting justice should lead the election government. Yes! The present day election government has been formed as per our preference. This could be taken as the victory of the RPP-Nepal floated ideas.
The preference and the wish of the people are to award the command of the election government to a non-partisan and non-political personality. But these wishes of the people had been blocked by the so called for parties for long. To the extent that these parties were in a mood not to hold the poll at all. They had been conspiring against the conduct of the election. Because of the penetration of the foreign forces, those parties had failed in their no election mission. I would say that even as of today the four parties are not in a position to think and act accordingly on their own conscience. The fact that Chief Justice preference for having been selected to Head the election government is the outcome of the maneuvering of the four parties as the latter has developed a habit to act as per the instruction of the foreign forces. Rumors that the Chief Justice has been awarded this post by the foreign maneuvering and play are tentatively very close to the truth.
TGQ2: So which external forces have overwhelmingly been influencing Nepali political parties? Can the election government headed by Justice Regmi which is taken as the choice of the extraneous forces hold the poll in a free and fair manner? What you think of it?
Kamal Thapa: The manner with which Nepali nationalism is experiencing increased external threat, I think the conduct of the election is a must to thwart those external designs. Understandably, the 12 point agreement which was signed in New Delhi under the direct sponsored involvement of the authorities of the Indian regime, one can easily see even today the all pervasive Indian influence in Nepali affairs after the said agreement to exist with full force. The external influence has increased more so after the 12 point agreement was signed and later the kind of self-submissive posture taken up by the Nepali leaders. This could be taken as the root cause and the beginning of external influence in Nepal.
Well, the people now fully recognize those political actors who have contributed to the political failure within all these past seven years. Some political parties may have been suffering from the self-submissive syndrome. But yet if the impending election is conducted in a free and fair manner then rest assured the election results will do away with the submissive forces which in turn definitely would ensure the grand victory of the nationalist forces. The victory is sure. The belief and faith with which the people have had voted in favor of the Nepali Congress, the UML and the Maoists, all have failed miserably in fulfilling the expectations and the aspirations of the people. That is why I now presume that the people, the voters, may not repose their trust of these parties once again.
TGQ3: So will the conduct of the poll be a free and fair one? Tell us as to what the Head of the Election Council Justice Regmi should do? What actions do you expect from him?
Kamal Thapa: Analyzing the situation as of now, I fear that the election could be held in a free and fair mode. We doubt. The RPP-Nepal, that is my party, have had great many expectations from this election government headed by Chief Justice Mr. Khil Raj Regmi. We were really very much impressed by his thorough gentleman behavior. But the activities that he made upon becoming the Election Council Head while forming the cabinet, and the appointments that he made in some constitutional organs, we now fear as to whether he is all out to dismantle the entire politics of this nation in connivance with the four parties which have elevated him to the current rank? If he goes against the will of the people and conducts the poll not as desired by the people and keeps himself engaged in making appointments on partisan political lines, as he has already accomplished, then a black spot awaits on his personality. Not only this, the likelihood for the conduct of the CA poll too would become a distant affair.
As regards your associated question, well, he should accord top priority to the conduct of the CA poll first. Justice Regmi without any delay must tell the four parties in no uncertain terms that you all have made me the election council head, but please do not interfere in my duties that I have to discharge. He must tell the parties in clear terms. If he doesn’t take the courage and prefers to remain the puppet of those four parties then I don’t think that he can conduct the CA poll. It would not be possible.
If he doesn’t correct his activities then, neither the election will be held not that would benefit the nation at large. The politics will then further deteriorate. Not only that, his credentials that he has been a choice of the extraneous powers will be proven. This will eventually damage his own credentials.
TGQ4: Do you mean that if Justice Regmi remains as a puppet of the four parties then the poll to the Constituent Assembly can’t be held?
Kamal Thapa: This is hundred percent correct. The election government formation has already been a long time enough but yet the dates for the election have not been made. In my presumption, Justice Regmi doesn’t appear to be in a mood to work without the support of the four parties. He waits for their decisions. Analyzing all these, that election can’t he held in June corresponding to this Nepali month-Asadh, is what could be guessed that CJ Regmi too is not in a mood to hold the poll on time. If he fails in conducting the polls in June then, take it for granted, there will remain no possibility at all that the election could be held in November/December this year. The election atmosphere will by then deteriorate. If Chief Justice Regmi thinks that he can steer the nation as he does while running the judiciary then it is a wrong evaluation. Running the State is totally different than governing the administration of nation’s judiciary. If he thinks that way then he is incorrect. It is not that easy to run the State as it may have been to lead the judicial administration. I repeat it once again that if this bureaucratic cabinet fails to hold the poll in June then there is no chance of the poll even in December. If he fails to conduct the poll then he is sure to register his name in the Nepali history as a black pustule.
TGQ5: Due to the failure of the so called big parties, the politics has shifted into the hands of the non-political person, for example, the judiciary. Given this situation, do you still believe that the revival of Nepali monarchy is possible? What say you?
Kamal Thapa: The Roadmap drafted by the 12 point agreement during 2005-6 movement was in itself a wrong step taken then. In the name of making a new Nepal, the manner the big parties steered the nation under their whims and the kind of rules and policies they preferred to impose upon the people, that was simply unfortunate for Nepal. The present day failure observed in the national politics is the net result of the faulty acts that the big parties made then after the political change. With the failure of the nation, the raison d’être of the stated 12 point agreement also has gone to the dogs. It has no relevance now.
At the moment the RPP-Nepal has been demanding the revival of the Hindu State in its ancient form. This is our demand as of now. We believe that in such a State, the Maoists could also have their space together with the revived monarchy. This is our argument that in such a State, the Monarchy and the Maoists could co-exist. The population is not a herd of sheep and goats. They are the ones who are conscious enough. That is why I firmly believe that the people will vote not for those who have already failed in their programs and policies but will vote in the favor of those who wish to really build a new Nepal together with the nationalist forces. I hope that the people will cast their votes in a historical manner in favor of the nationalists. I am confident on what I have just stated.
Text Courtesy: The Abhiyan daily dated March 28, 2013. Thanks Abhiyan daily. Ed.
Source: Telegraphnepal.com
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