Nepal: The Unpopular Movement

Sujeet Arjel

The nationwide protests of the Nepal’s Maoists are another reminder to the democratic people and similar friends outside about their utter non-belief in the democratic order, and under duress they can force anything within the country. While the outside world may just see the sea of people through various mass media, make their analysis on the situation in Nepal and devise their interactions accordingly, gatherings of such mass organized especially by the Maoists have never been a normal affair to the residents of the capital and other places across the country.

Mobilizing a sea of people may help Maoists display their strength and popular support, but in reality they are losing all/any distant support and sympathy, if at all existed, from all thinking people and of course, from those sufferers across the country. To pay for their demonstrations, the Maoists cadres ran the forced donation and accommodation drive nationwide, and those who couldn’t keep up were subjected to various ‘people’s actions’. Bringing people to the urban areas under duress and make them chant slogan on their behalf has been their trend to show their fake support.

Foreign interference, puppet government, and other catchy words that invokes patriotism has become a buzz word for the Maoists to discredit incumbent government, the parliamentary practices and anything that’s not in their agenda. Interference is certainly there, and it is everywhere, and that’s why interfering country is losing traditional support it should naturally have otherwise for various reason. When the Maoists were in India waging war against the contemporary government in Nepal, inflicting widespread death, damage and destruction, that was considered a friendly gesture; when the monarchy was sidelined, that was also a friendly gesture, and now when they don’t get to do things they desired, they see friendly gesture as ‘interference’. Their dual standard is not a secret anymore, and all their effort to regain control of the state is nothing but a ploy to capture the state power without a popular mandate. The people’s mandate they claim so far was in fact, for the Constituent Assembly (CA) and not to form the government. To translate CA as a workaround legislature was agreed by a few who wanted to share power, and not necessarily write the constitution.

The tenure of all CA members is expiring by the end of this month, and creating havoc to form the Maoists lead government through street protests and mass demonstration is unparliamentarily and undemocratic. A responsible political group that claims to have so much of popular support should be talking more about bracing free and fair election, and not the state capture. A party that has always known to get things done by force and under duress would care less for popular desire for peace and stability. To put pressure on the government, they may resort to damage and destruction, confrontation and closure of all essential services making lives miserable every day, making their movement and agenda unpopular.

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Comments

Posted on - 2011-07-19 by bhimrajgurung
Democracy was not delivering any result to the poor and the hungry people of Nepal hence this Maoist movement!

Posted on - 2010-05-06 by Nik
To the Editor Please correct the language before publishing. This article is full of grammar mistakes. The sentence structure is not correct, hard to make sense. I am a Nepali so that I can make a sense of the thoughts the writer is trying to tell, otherwise it does not make any sense really.