-Pushpa Raj Pradhan
Chief Editor
The People’s Review Weekly
Kathmandu, Nepal
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Despite the foreigners’ conspiracy to prolong the present constitution and our political leaders’ attempts to suppress the voice against a change, people have started to come down to the streets. When the Durga Prasain-led group organized a protest assembly at Balkhu in Kathmandu on Thursday, 23 November, above 50 thousand people gathered to protest against the present political system of federalism, secularism, and republicanism.
Accordingly, when former King Gyanendra reached Birtamod, Jhapa, to unveil a statue of King Prithivi Narayan Shah-the Great, on Saturday, hundreds of thousands of people escorted the deposed King from the hotel in Mechinagar to Birtamod. The human sea in favour of the institution of monarchy and Hindu kingdom and against current federal structure is in itself a referendum against the present political system.
Such a human sea appeared in the Kathmandu streets and simultaneously in Jhapa, including other parts across the nation, but has been downplayed by the Western media as well as the Nepali media funded by the Westerners. Some foreign-paid media have even argued that the King should deny to assume the throne again. This is the terrorized mentality of those foreigners and foreign-paid mediamen in Nepal.
Indeed, the 2006 political change was calculatedly designed to finish century-old Nepali culture, tradition, religion and finally the unique Nepali identity. The 2015 constitution was imposed against the Nepali aspiration. The present system adopted by the political parties has benefited a small group of political leaders who are enjoying power-turn-by-turn under foreign blessings. Nevertheless, they were unable to introduce good governance as they all are involved in practicing rampant corruption. The situation is that the country is falling into more and more foreign debt and a certain group of political leaders are being rewarded under the foreign blessings.
The political leaders in power underestimated the general public and thought that they could continue practicing rampant corruption, nepotism, favoritism, sycophancy, etc. without any fear of society.
Personally, I am not formally introduced to Mr. Durga Prasain, yet, I am convinced by what he is speaking. Indeed, he is speaking the bitter truth that we have been saying and feeling for decades and decades.
I, for one, don’t know, whether Prasain will be emerging as a leader or not, nevertheless, he chose to laud the voice of those voiceless people. I cannot predict what will be the role of Prasain in the days ahead, but he has an opportunity to become a nation’s savior.
# Text courtesy: The People’s Review weekly, Kathmandu, Nepal dated November 29, 2023: Ed. Upadhyaya.
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“The Chief Editor of The People’s Review weekly Mr. Pradhan currently is in Guangzhou, China attending to the World media summit wherein the world media leaders have expressed their hope for a successful World Media Summit and more fruitful cooperation among media outlets worldwide. In a brief note sent by the Chief Editor of People’s Review weekly Mr. Pushpa Raj Pradhan today from China, from the ongoing media Summit-quotes Daisy Veerasingham, the president and CEO of the Associated Press who is also attending the media summit in China stating that “gatherings of such kind “benefits all news organizations so that we can work together to advance the power of factual journalism.”
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currently the Chief Editor of The People’s Review weekly is in Guangzhou, China attending to the World media summit wherein the world media leaders have expressed their hope for a successful World Media Summit and more fruitful cooperation among media outlets worldwide.
In a brief note sent by the Chief Editor of People’s Review weekly today, Mr. Pushpa Pradhan, from the ongoing media Summit-venue in China, refers Daisy Veerasingham, the president and CEO of the Associated Press who is also attending the media summit in China stating that “gatherings of such kind “benefits all news organizations so that we can work together to advance the power of factual journalism.”
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