A wake up call for anticorruption initiatives
By: Dilep K. Paudel
Corruption Capsule
Corruption in the governmental and non governmental sector has been a candidly addressed matter in the international arena. Despite the economic and development rapids of the nation, it has been considered as the single major challenge to all the countries and mostly it is a critical development threat to the developing countries. Corruption is a behavioral practice and has been flourished in the developing countries with poor economic structure where the subjects of the corruptions are praised socially for their economic wellbeing then the developed nation. More than this corruption is an attitude of molding personal gain, economic wellbeing and earnings in an illegal and unmannered way by misusing the granted power by the state authority. In a lay-man term corruption is the transaction of the fiscal or non fiscal wealth in an illegal way by misusing the power for personal profit or in other word, activities of gaining and claming profit for public work by misusing the power of oneself. Here power indicates the privilege and status holding by an individual granted by the state authorities. Culturally developed corrupt behavior has strong social root in Nepalese context to great extent. It has been considered as the mighty achievement of the man and corrupt gains are always found praised in the society plus corrupt persons are socially admired and encouraged more and more. Unless we bring transformation on social perception towards corruptly gained wealth in our society, we are feeding corruption and multiplying our moral loss of honest citizen. Corruption is a dangerous social capsule once we inspired or feed one to be corrupt and indulged in corruption, it inspires hundreds others. The corrupt officials only are not guilty but the societies who inspire and encourage them for corruption are guilty. There is always give and take in corruption, therefore the taker and giver are both guilty and both need to address equally. Corruption capsule contaminate economic, social and administrative system of the nation. Not only bribery is corruption capsule but includes fraud, misuse of power and authority, unsolicited personal gains, misappropriation of public finance, theft, robbery, money laundering etcetera.
Corruption culture
Pervasive corruption in Nepal is the alarming danger for the economic development of the country. Intuitionally developed corruption has damage social purity and administrative functioning of the nation. Nepal has very slow and steady economic development process and that too is constraints by the socio-economic, geo-political and corrupt phenomenon of the territory and in such circumstances, corruption in governmental and non governmental sectors is the prime perversion of the nation. Rapidly spread corruption is the byproduct of failureness of the government and practice rule of law in the nation. In the history of Nepal corruption was limited phenomena in the pre democratic tenure where the certain authorities and administrative bodies indulged in corrupt activities. But in the recent years it has been a borderless practice in the governmental and non governmental authorities. Every section related to the functioning of national affairs is being dived into the corrupt activities. The sum total of fertilized corruption is the weak national policies, non transparent rule and regulation plus the failure ness of the state authority working to combat corruption in the current era. The feeble anticorruption laws allow the corrupt authority and individual for easy and comfortable escape. Public interest and consensus is ignored by the authority and come up as authoritative and monopolistic manner for fertilizing the corruption in all sectors. Very poor initiative and meager commitment of the government to combat corruption is another factor for existing corruption in the nation. Private sector and non governmental organization are shown their social gesture to wake against corruption in the recent years and this too is hindered by the state authority to great extent. Therefore the national dieses, corruption is promoted in the authority as easy way for personal gain and bankrupt the national treasury and hawk for the administrative affairs.
Corruption breeds corruption
In the current era whereby rampant corruption has destroyed all norms and values of administrative process in the nation, corruption breeds more corruption. Corrupt activities have to be addressed by the state authority strongly and bring national consensus to combat it from all levels. The nation has identified corruption as the single greatest obstacle to economic and social development. It undermines entire development process by distorting the rule of law and weakening the institutional foundation on which economic growth depends. A proven anticorruption initiatives is present essence for the nation where all efforts to combat corruption is framed holistically.
People are always the first subject of the cause and effect of corruption. The harmful effects of corruption are especially severe on the poor, who are hardest hit by economic decline, are most reliant on the provision of public services, and are least capable of paying the extra costs associated with bribery, fraud, and the misappropriation of economic privileges. Corruption sabotages policies and programs that aim to reduce poverty, so attacking corruption is critical to the achievement of the nation’s overarching mission of poverty reduction. Existing frequency of corruption invites more misery in the development process of the nation. Uncontrolled corruption in the administrative sector, that have been in practice as administrative legacy is the welcoming sing for breeding more corruption in the nation. Therefore the nation has to be more attentive to bring combine efforts to uproot the corruption in order to furnish a corruption free administration and society.
National anticorruption initiatives
Corruption in these days is an omnipotent and omnipresent aspect in Nepalese context. It has been increased in such a frequency that it seems as legally approved transaction for all administrative affairs. Uncontrolled corruption get good atmosphere to flourish its presence in the Nepalese administration undoubtedly. No single wing and association of the government are untouched by corrupt activities.
In the recent years some notable anticorruption initiatives were brought into an affect. Some non governmental organizations are actively advocating this issue. Their voices for transparency and corruption control are much credited by the authorities. Such non governmental organization working for anticorruption and good governance like FACT Nepal (Forum Against Corruption and Turmoil, Nepal) are the avenue made by popular support to combat corruption when government is always passive. In contrary, government too seems little alert to prevent existing corruption in its wings in the recent era. Although, Nepal has the history of constituting several forum, commissions and offices in different names in order to combat corruption; all these are gone in vain so the public expectation is very low on the productivities of such, resulted from past experience. Public anxiety is overwhelmed. No progress and notable achievement was made by such attempts in the hand of the government. No single law and strong legal mandate was executed to combat corruption in the past, why because they themselves were the most corrupt among others who has authority to implement and execute such law and action. They do not want to fall victim of their own practice. So it is crystal clear that the legislative and executive bodies were the most corrupt section of the nation.
In the recent years little hope was candled by the government. The almost sleeping organization to work against corruption has wake up and come up with propagandist approach although it is better than nothing. The CIAA, broadcasted several major corruption scandals in the past, took popular action against these and some of them are still under process to finalize. Another recently formed Royal commission, a so called politically unconstitutional body is in its full pace to work for anticorruption in the country. Although, it has been the subject of political and constitutional debate since its inception, still some hope remains with RCCC. The government initiatives for corruption control were always welcomed by the people and anticipated much from such but the political facilities always bring them in dark side. We expect the strong debate free powerful body and anticorruption law and strategy to uproot the corruption in the country. We believe that an effective anticorruption strategy builds on five key elements:
• Focused in Increasing Political Accountability
• Encouraging and Strengthening Civil Society Participation for Anticorruption
• Developing a Competitive Private Sector as the Substitute and Making Them Transparent.
• Intuitional Restraints on Power Applied by State Authorities
• Improving and Reforming Public Sector Management
In conclusion if the government makes some effective and strong policies and strategies to combat corruption on the basis of above elements we can guess the corruption trend and tendency will certainly lower. Practice of good governance can be a real dream as such why because to reduce the corrosive impact of corruption in a sustainable way, it is important to go beyond the symptoms to tackle the causes of corruption.
The End Notes
“A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy; or, perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives”
—Former U.S. President James Madison, 1822
Corruption drains our institutions and undermines the economic foundation of sustainable growth. Corruption distorts the very rule of law, and it threatens our commitment to building democratic, prosperous, and equitable societies. Therefore the real need of time at present in Nepal is strong and committed anticorruption initiatives.

By: Dilep K. Paudel

The Issue:
The series of issues on Human rights in Nepal stared erupting since long back with the anarchic Rana regime where people were always the subject of suppression and oppression over the century long regime. The process was incessant until the downfall of successive autocratic Panchayat system in the same frequency and later after the restoration of Multiparty Democracy in 1990 the mercury of human right violation roars down to some extent. Again with the civil war waged by rebellion Communist party of Nepal Maoist, the extreme violation of human rights and torture began with new dimension and now exists to it culmination. Both fronts, the government and rebel force started jumping over the fundamental constitutional rights of the people and instigate the new series of human right violation. Over a decade long democratic government was complete failure to restore social order, peace and guarantee the basic human rights to the people. In another pole the extreme violation, crime, corruption, political unrest and human right violation in this regime were noticeable factors. The government indulged in dirty power politics ignoring the motive force of the people’s movement back to their principle memoir. As a result, the country has fallen under an autocratic and dictatorship regime of the King. After the King Gyanendra usurped all executive powers on 1 February 2005 by forming a council of ministers under his chairmanship and declaring a "state of emergency" through a Royal proclamation, civil and political rights of citizens have also been grossly ignored and blatantly violated. The national development later to this phase has added the fuel in human right crisis in the nation. The incidences of arbitrary arrest, illegal and incommunicado detention, torture and disappearance are widespread. The Maoist rebels are also equally, if not more, responsible for grave human rights abuses, including kidnapping, torture and the deliberate killing of civilians and captured security forces. The Maoists have recruited children and deployed them in combat situations as a part of forced conscription. Both the high contracting parties have demonstrated indifference to compliance with the application of humanitarian law in an intense conflict situation. The practices of barbaric killings, maiming, mutilation, cruel degrading treatment or punishment, targeting civilian populations and hostage taking are routine. The ability of human rights defenders to operate freely has also been undermined by the government, especially after the Royal takeover.

Current Development & National Catastrophe

Nepal, ranked in one of the poorest country of the world has different factors playing the role for the current national crisis and human right violation. Degrading political scenario, blind game of power politics and poor demographic indications of nations supported the ongoing national catharsis to great extent. Leading political parties are prime responsible for the national catastrophe. As a result of ongoing political unrest fueled by anarchic rule of the King in one side and in the other ongoing people’s war of the Maoist bring the nation in such a crux of problem that Nepal has the highest percentage record of missing people in the world. No measures have been put in place in order to facilitate the search for missing persons. Illegal detention and detention incommunicado are common practices on the part of the government. Similarly, the CPN Maoists’ human rights record includes abduction, torture, mutilation, killings, and disappearances of civilians, extortion, intimidation, forced labor and displacement. The country has been languishing without parliament since 2002. This absence has resulted in a power imbalance, a culture of impunity, non-transparency, corruption and non-accountability within the state functionaries. The cooperation of the government with institutions such as the judiciary, the media, the legal and medical professions and other sectors of civil society is extremely poor. The human rights community is taken as a hostile agent on most occasions, by both the state and non-state actors.

The country is ruled as per the Royal proclamation or the King's directives and ordinances. This "government" rules by practicing suppression of political freedom and civil liberties, undermining the basic concept of democratic polity. Inferring the ongoing national crisis, the King's intentions are publicly understood as aiming to be an absolute monarch, crossing the jurisdiction of constitutional monarchy. Basic civil rights and fundamental human rights are blindly ignored by the state. In such complexity the people are the subject of both side agitations. Although Nepal has the history of sounding the issues of human rights in public arena after the UN declaration of human rights in Dec 10 1948, in Nepalese panorama it become the topic of national concern after the nation adhered the principles of the UN Commission for human rights, by joining the universally acclaimed (UN) in Dec 14 1955. In this course some rigorous efforts were rendered by some humanitarian organizations and association in this apprehension but the nation and government is always mum.

The insecurity has increased since February 1st and state and civil society mechanisms for monitoring, reporting and prosecuting rights abusers are paralyzed. The suppression of the right to information and expression has further undermined democratic principles and allows for abuses to occur without fear of judicial prosecution. The human rights and media communities are badly affected due to increasing interference, and surveillance of their movement and activities. More than a thousand political activists, and four-dozen human rights defenders and trade unionists, including a dozen journalists are still under illegal detention in various hidden or undeclared detention centers under the Public Security Act, 1989, which was initially enforced to suppress the 1990 peaceful democratic movement. Subsequently, human rights defenders are forced to conduct their legitimate activities under the tremendous pressure and security restrictions in conflict-ridden areas.

The King's motives to strengthen the monarchy with the support of the RNA are further spelled out by their use of misinformation to attempt to fracture the Maoists as well as all political parties. To oppose the King, is to be an anti-nationalist, even to question aloud can result in being labeled an anti-nationalist or supporter of the "terrorists." Human right activist and other social workers have bitter experience of detention and punishment bared as anti nationalist on such occasion. The King's regime has gone as far as to call for the production of "pro-nationalist" movies. The media is not the only source of information that has been censored. Human rights defenders' work has been severely obstructed by the King's directives and the suppression of human rights. Activists are undergoing complete unsecured and threatened working condition in the nation.

Human rights organizations, which have always played a vital role in monitoring and reporting abuses by both parties to the conflict and ensuring that victims have some recourse against perpetrators, have been silenced. Due to the suppression of freedom to information and expression they are unable to monitor effectively and make their findings known. Who then is protecting the victims? Who is able to call for justice? Who is able to protect and demand adherence to the democratic principles that so many in Nepal have worked for and have sacrificed so much? The King’s and military's ongoing actions are clearly an abuse of power and are destructive to the democratic future of Nepal. It has created insecurity and fear for political activists, human rights defenders, free expression activists and journalists. Without political, democratic space, the free flow of uncensored information and unobstructed monitoring by civil society, human rights abuses and atrocities will increase and perpetrators will go unpunished. Such deadly national circumstances have led the country to the vicious circle of insecurity, violation of human rights and crossover in civil liberties.

Complexity of Situation: A deepening Crisis
These are extremely difficult times for the nation and the people of Nepal. Current years have seen the insurgency intensify to levels of violence and brutality that this country had not seen before. The militarization of what began as a political conflict has now taken the lives of more than 10,000 Nepalese and has led the country further and further away from political reconciliation and peaceful resolution. Massive, grave and systematic human rights violations characterize the present conflict in Nepal. On the one side there is a policy of assassination and execution aimed at destroying the last vestiges of civil administration and infrastructure in most of the country. We are also seeing mass abductions, particularly of children and youth with a view to indoctrinating and arming them, effectively putting them on the front lines of the conflict. This turn of events alone – the widespread involvement of children in the armed conflict – threatens to leave a legacy of brutality and lost generations that will haunt the country for many years to come. On the other side of the conflict, we have seen an undeniable pattern of disappearance, execution and torture that has been employed so widely and indiscriminately that it doubtlessly continues to drive large numbers of ordinary people into the arms of the insurgents. Both sides claim that they aim to win the hearts and minds of the people. But what we can all clearly see instead is that there are only more and more innocent people counted as casualties of the conflict. What is not easily seen is equally alarming, namely that the country is being emptied of much of its rural population. More and more Nepalese – particularly the youth – are fleeing from Nepal to escape from the wanton death and destruction caused by both sides of the conflict. And as they flee, they take with them the hope of the nation for its future.
With the increasing human right violation and brutality on children and women in Nepal in the recent era, there is no denying that Nepal is in the throes of a deepening crisis of grave proportions. There are, however, two essential mechanism that are indispensable if Nepal’s leaders are to break the cycle of intensifying violence and militarization. Firstly, a respect for fundamental human rights, including an end to the pervasive climate of impunity on both sides of the conflict is required. Human rights violations are not only intolerable but they are counter-productive for anyone who claims to be fighting for the people. Respect for human rights is an essential tool for any military commander wishing to instill discipline, command and control over his troops. The present climate of impunity must be combated actively and with determination. Additionally, both sides need urgently to reverse the involvement of children in the conflict: the Maoists by ending their abductions, indoctrination and recruitment of children; the security forces by ensuring the special treatment and protection of children in their rules of engagement aiming at the rehabilitation and reintegration of the child. Both sides should urgently consider signing a human rights accord aimed at ending the abuses and atrocities that are emptying the countryside. The hearts and minds of the people are indeed the key to victory in this conflict and the road to those hearts and minds is respect for human rights.
The second mechanism for breaking the cycle of violence is a strong and effective National Human Rights Commission. This means that, above all, the Commission must be allowed to carry out its work as mandated under the Human rights Commission Act and provided for in the Human Rights Commitment announced by His Majesty's Government on 26 March 2004. This should include full and unhindered access, without prior notice, to all places of detention, which is recognized internationally as vital to any effective human rights monitoring. Such visits would go far in helping His Majesty's Government to prevent disappearances, executions and torture. The international community has been watching the whole scenario from the very near pole and hopes that these issues will be addressed not only speedily but also through a process that takes into account the political sensitivities and the legal complexities of the present situation. Further to this the people of Nepal and national organizations and agencies will render their support and efforts to work together towards the common goal of a peaceful and democratic Nepal where the fundamental human rights of all are fully respected. Now, more than ever, the future of the nation depends on the success of those efforts.
National Endeavors
The Government of Nepal established the National Human Right Commission as a gesture of its global responsibility. This is one of the major initiative taken by the Government in the course of human rights protection and preservation. With the tune of time and situation the National Human Right Commission set up its frame and gained a bit popularity and national support on its framework and activities constructed in the short span of time. National Human Rights Commission is the country's statutory body promoting and protecting human rights. In the relatively short time of its existence, it has worked hard to establish itself on a firm basis. As a result of those efforts, the Commission has raised its profile nationally and internationally as the nation's foremost defender of human rights. For which each individual and national and international organization furnish their support to it and aptly although nation does not fully render the support in sufficiency the United Nations is among the most active supporters of the Commission and is appreciative of the encouragement received from the Government to provide the Commission with substantial technical and logistical assistance.
With the emerging alarm on human rights in Nepal the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is to set up a monitoring operation in Nepal in a move to help establish accountability for human rights abuses and prevent further violations. It is foreseen that OHCHR field offices will be set-up at the regional level in order to ensure rapid response to reports of human rights violations. The High Commissioner said she hoped human rights monitoring under United Nations auspices would be an important step in establishing accountability for human rights abuses and helping prevent serious human rights violations resulting from the nine-year old armed conflict. "Breaking the cycle of serious and systematic abuses will be the first essential step toward achieving peace and reconciliation in Nepal.
To revamp human rights to its standard, the government has also signed the global capacity development project for the Commission by UNDP. This means that it is now up to the international community to show their support for the National Human Rights Commission as it expands its presence into five regional centers across the country. With respect to monitoring and reporting on human rights violations, government has committed for its full support. These are welcome signs of Government's commitment on thee current presence of the crucial and unique role of the Commission plays in Nepal. Also the excellent work being carried out under very difficult conditions by the country's many human rights NGOs as well as the media is other side story to appreciate. The work being carried out by the NGOs, in particular, and the valuable information they provide make possible the effective functioning of the United Nations human rights mechanisms, including both special procedures and the treaty monitoring bodies. They certainly deserve more recognition, support and encouragement in their defense of human rights.
Role of the International communities
The voices to call the United Nations for mediation of talks between the rebel forces and the Government were sounding few years back in the cloud of national dilemma. As soon as the rumors to call UN for mediation cooled down, in response to the ongoing violations of human rights in Nepal after the King's invocation of Article 27-C to usurp all state power, the Nepalese human rights community takes this opportunity to make a public appeal to the international community to continue their actions against the new regime in order to restore democracy, freedom and political rights in Nepal. The people of also appreciate international solidarity and support in pressurizing the country's military regime to disclose the whereabouts of some political leaders who were detained in undisclosed detention centers. We urge the international community to put pressure on Nepalese authorities to reinstate all fundamental human rights of the citizens that are indispensable, inalienable and indivisible, including freedom of movement, freedom to political rights, freedom of opinion and expression, and freedom of access to information. The right to freedom of information and expression contributes to educating people, brings issues into the public, and contributes to the "checks and balances" of a country. The suppression of those rights, as Nepal has severely experienced since February 1st, significantly contributes to the demise of democracy and freedom throughout the nation. The notion of "democracy" and "freedom" has been abandoned and the country is quickly moving toward a "failed state" due to the ongoing violent conflict that began in 1996 and now a wholly undemocratic regime. In such situation the international communities can sought for national support to restore peace and reinstall the fully reserved and respected climate of human right in Nepal. Along with UN several other international organizations and associations advocating for the human right should make their presence in Nepal to revive the deepening crisis of human right.
Conclusion
With reference to the United Nations human right concern, Nepal has shown its sincere gesture and projection of a vision in which the human rights of all are fully respected and enjoyed in conditions of peace. The government committed as a member of the UN to working for Human Rights to keep that vision to the forefront through constant encouragement of the nation to uphold universally agreed human rights standards based on the Universal declaration of Human Rights on Dec 10 1948. It agreed on the Commissioner’s role to alert Governments and the world community to the daily reality that these standards are too often ignored or unfulfilled, and to be a voice for the victims of human rights violations everywhere. It is also our role to press the international community to take the steps that can prevent violations, including support for the right to development. Human rights are our common heritage and their realization depends on the contribution that each and every one of us is willing to make, individually and collectively, now and in the future. The nation adopt and adhere all provisions and statement passed by the UN but remained silence in its effect and implementation. The very slow initiatives taken by the government of Nepal in the issues of Human Rights gather no credit and candid result for the promotion of human right and national solidarity.

Rosa Lee Parks the pioneer of the civil rights movement in United States leave the subtle world at the age of 92. Parks the candle of the civil rights activism and counter ideal of Sir Martin Luther King Jnr, better known for her strong and pre-determined initiation of the civil rights movement to eliminate the racial discrimination in the States. Being black woman she once refused to grant bus seat to the white man in a bus she was traveling in, she was caught by police and fined. Her refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man started the US civil rights movement in the mid 1950s. Her attempt to eliminate the racial discrimination was supported by the Martin Luther King Jnr. Since then she started her voice against the racial discrimination and boycott the bus in the United States.

Parks was forty-two, when she made history in civil rights causation. The history made upon this circumstance when she was sitting on the bus in Montgomery, Alabama, one day in 1955 a white man demanded her seat. Mrs Parks refused, defying the rules which required blacks to give up their seats to whites. She was arrested and fined (made to pay some money as a punishment). Her treatment triggered a three hundred and eighty one day boycott of the bus system and the people decided not to use the buses as a form of protest, organized by the Reverend Martin Luther King Junior. The Montgomery bus boycott marked the birth of the civil rights movement in the United States.
After the years of her refusal and starting the movement against racial discrimination Parks recalled his days with a reporter:
ROSA LEE PARKS:
"The driver said that if I refused to leave the seat, he would have to call the police and I told him just call the police, which he did and when they came, they placed me under arrest."
REPORTER:
"Wasn't that a pretty frightening thing, to be arrested in Montgomery, Alabama?"
ROSA LEE PARKS:
"No, I wasn't afraid at all."
REPORTER:
"You weren't frightened, why weren't you frightened?"
ROSA LEE PARKS:
"I don't know why I wasn't, but I didn't feel afraid. I had decided that I would have to know once and for all what rights I had as a human being and a citizen, even in Montgomery, Alabama."
Her public stance made her a symbol of the civil rights movement. She is an ideal icon for similar activists around the world. Her diligent efforts in the social service also gathered a good credit as upon her retirement, Mrs Parks devoted her time to an institute she and her husband founded, aimed at developing leadership among young people. Rosa Parks will be remembered for the way her quiet determination in the face of injustice helped change America.

Oops!!!the South Asia quake took thousands of lives. This is the great human catastrophe experienced by this region in the long gap of history. The current scenario is shocking and terrible. Thousands of individuals and organizations are putting their best efforts in relief work. The international relief/ aid agencies and organizations are showing humble gesture in this humanitarian crisis for the resettlement and rehabilitation to the victims. The rescue and relief activities are carrying up along with the rehabilitation process of the displaced.
The bitter experience of the human casualties of such high magnitude surely click our mind and indicate that it is urgent time to think once again the possible terror of such natural disaster in the earthquake prone zone of this region. Especially some parts of India and major urban sector of Nepal seem vulnerable. The government and organization in this part shall be alert and aware of any indication of such possible crisis.
This heart breaking situation appeal us to share some word of grief and join hands together for the humanitarian support to the victims. Let’s help for quick relief and support to the alive and pray for peaceful rest of soul to the lost.

From the miles of away from our land we, the people of Nepal ponder on the current political development of nation and come to the conclusion that the milieu of the current Nepalese circumstances surely lead the nation nowhere than vicious circle of political unrest, heated terror of war, and public anxiety over the direct rule of the Monarch. Recent political development has shown the meticulous planning of Monarch to hold the Nation in his grip which the political parties are strongly opposed. Although the voice and appeal of the political parties is ignored by the public to great extent, the parties win more popular support than the king. This fact can be observed from the ongoing agitation and mass movement in streets of Kathmandu. Unlike earlier protest and political movement, now the people are not coming to the street but are giving silent support to the parties to agitate against the king’s interest of the autonomy in the Nation. But it does not mean that the parties are winning the absolute support or the heart of public, because people experienced the worst governance in the past decade from the political parties. The entire blame of the current deteriorating situation goes to the parties and also are blamed as the royal movement is the byproduct of the dishonesty, unfaithfulness, disrespect and dismantling of democracy by the political parties in the past.

These days the streets of Kathmandu are heated by the agitation and confrontation of the political parties whereas the country outside is silent due to the unilateral cease fire of the revolutionary party a month back. Therefore it is obvious the street of Kathmandu draw more attention in this context. Although the protest is intensified to some extent, it seems their moral responsibility to lower it as Nepal and Nepalese are observing the great festival within a couple of weeks and this movement is disturbing to some degree to enjoy the festivity. Parties will be benefited if acted according the public interest in these circumstances. So in the walk of the changed political scenario the colors of the approaching festivity are diluted. People seems no excited and happy to celebrate it fullest as earlier simply because of the ongoing political unrest, Maoist insurgency and social disturbs like displacement due to various cause. People are expecting some better changes and improvement with the celebration of this festival. People are praying the Goddess of power for the wellbeing of the country and countrymen rather than personal wellbeing.

Besides these current waves of festivity, other development leading the hot discussion in Nepalese diasporas are the “King’s latest remark on current situation” and the inference draw from the “ban of a Nepali cinema”. The King’s current remarks and the government’s decision to ban of one of the popular Nepali cinema, “Balidan” meaning “Sacrifice” carry the clear cut sense behind the scene. Both acts are the outcomes of the Kings interest and vision of direct rule and revive the old autocratic system into the land. The banned cinema is based on the mass movement of 1990 for democracy and ultimate victory of the people against the Panchayat system whereas the king’s remarked is reflection of his father king Mahendra’s attempt in 1960. The socio-political theme and plot of the cinema is said to be the major cause for its ban at the Nepali theatre, though it was released eight years ago. The royal government might have considered the theme and plot of the cinema as the moral to the people to revolt against the direct rule of the monarch in the contemporary situation. It is also guessed that the government is trying to polish out all practices of the multiparty system gradually as it has shown such instinct by changing the name of the leading government publication “Gorkhapatra” and changing the tune of the “national news” broadcasting from government owned the Radio Nepal. Since Feb. 1, take over, the royal government is concentrating to strengthen the royal pillars and isolating the problem of the country and countrymen.

In addition the latest sarcastic remark of the king addressed in his visit to Lalitpur, a neighboring city of the capital lead the political parties into the cloud of suspect on his motive behind it. He has said that some “unnecessary acts” were being carried out in the capital with foreign money, addressing the meeting of civil servants during his visit but did not made it clear “what activities”? Parties believe this is the absolute skeptical remark of the monarch reflecting his interest for absolute grip in nation. Strategically, The political parties are terming this recent remark as a revival of 2017 BS (1960), when his father King Mahendra hold absolute power in his hand and dissolved the parliament, banished political parties and imprisoned many democratic leaders ushering in the Panchayat era. They are giving different comments and drawing inferences on his recent remarks as a well plan strategy of the palace to stage a fresh ‘regressive move’, which "will be worst than the royal proclamations of February 1 this year". “The country may see a worst kind of royal move soon, political parties add on their own account. There are indications of such an attempt which can be described as ‘crackdown’,” parties severely comment their anxiety against the royal move. Accusing the royal palace and ‘royalist elements’ of trying to impose absolute military rule and threaten the very existence of the political parties, comment as expressions of key players of the present administration have hinted that plots are being hatched behind the curtain to exact another royal move. Parties do to understand the clear motive of the palace after their soft relation with the palace since decades for their personal benefits and now vomiting the facts. Parties are preparing to create a storm of agitations without having any fear or sense of terror” against the royal move but not against the existing war, why? Amidst this changing scenario a question raised shouldn’t the parties think for resolving the ongoing war in the nation??? Is it not their moral liability?? Are they not responsible to bring down the nation in this crux of problem??? Is the Royal move the only problem of nation? Isn’t it too late for them to apologize for their past mistakes and make correction in their mistake or should fallow the same as the palace?
These are all unanswered questions of the Nepalese people since 1992. We want a vision and vigor led actions of the parties against all odds of the Nation not the protest for the sake of protest.
Let there be peace in Nepal.