Time To Rally Around Madhav Nepal
http://demrepubnepal.blogspot.com/2009/05/time-to-rally-around-madhav-nepal.html
# Prachanda was in India for most of the duration of the civil war he
ignited, and now he wants you to believe India is an evil country.
That is hypocritical.
# Prachanda's coalition partners did not walk away from him because
India pressured them to. They walked away because of Prachanda's bad
behavior.
# Only if all his coalition partners would have agreed to the decision
to sack Katuwal would that have counted as cabinet decision. There was
no longer a cabinet left. There was no cabinet decision to sack
Katuwal. There was only a Prachanda decision to sack Katuwal.
# Prachanda bypassed the president. Informing on the phone does not
count.
# Prachanda bypassed the president. Why? Because the president is a
Madhesi?
# Krishna Sitoula gave crores to the Maoists. That was election money
to the Maoists.
# The Maoists want to declare 7,000 martyrs. That is not intended to
be an act of respect. That is election money for next year. That can
not be allowed.
# Prachanda never meant for Upendra Yadav to become Prime Minister,
although he did make the offer.
# Prachanda never meant for Koirala to become Prime Minister again,
although he did make the offer.
# With those two offers all Prachanda was trying to do was prevent a
coalition from building around Madhav Nepal.
# The UML-NC-MJF-TMDP-SP government agreeing to the eight point
agreement with the United Democratic Madhesi Front is the best deal
the MJF can get under the circumstances. A party with 55 out of the
601 MPs can not hope to get the Prime Ministership, especially when
the offer was never honestly made by the Maoists.
# The Maoists continue to have a one party mentality.
# After you have already filed a complaint against the president's
move with the Supreme Court, why are you still holding street
protests? Wait for the court to give its verdict.
# Why obstruct the parliament? Because you don't have a majority? That
is a one party state mentality.
# The Maoist gameplan has been to declare 7,000 martyrs, and get
hundreds of crores of rupees for the party in the process to go get a
majority on their own in next year's election. If they have been
acting like a one party state when they are but one third of the
presence in the parliament, imagine what after they would get a simple
majority or, god forbid, a 60% majority? That prospect can not be
imagined.
# K.P. Oli would be a great Home Minister at this point. The state has
to counter all unlawful uses of force by organizations like the YCL.
No compromise. Period.
# Upendra Yadav should continue being Foreign Minister. Now that his
party is an even bigger proportion of the coaltion, he should ask for
a few more berths for his party in the cabinet. The MJF must become an
active member of the new coalition government. Staying outside is not
an option.
# The United Democratic Madhesi Front should be given new life through
this new coalition government. Stop saying Ek Madhesh, Ek Pradesh.
Start saying Ek Terai, Ek Rajya. The word Terai is inclusive of the
Madhesis, the Tharus, the Pahadi origin Teraiwasis, everybody.
Paramendra Bhagat
President, Hamro Nepal
http://hamnep.googlepages.com