HELLO NEPAL

It could have been much better for the senior political leaders to surrender to the sovereign people of Nepal saying that they completely failed to live up to their promises made to the people and save the nation from plunging into political and constitutional darkness and ask the people whether they would be willing to hand over their Naso to the former King rather than letting the Chief Justice & Co to run the country based on the pressure of foreign power.

19 February 2013 I think the gross negligence of NEA with regard to taking precautionary measures to save the water storage capacity of the Kulekhani reservoir from gradually decreasing in its size in recent years contribute towards increasing load-shedding hours. Were not there any kind of technical measures to prevent flowing of sand, mud, silt and boulders into the reservoir? Does NEA expertise lack the technical knowledge for avoiding such unwanted incidents?   During the initial years of its operation, it used to hold around 850.3 million cubic meters of water generating around 210.1 million units of power. Now, the water storage capacity has dropped to 590.9 cubic meters generating only 140 million units of power which ultimately has affected the overall power supply system. If the NEA does not take necessary measures to save the reservoir from decreasing its water storage capacity in time and does not pre-plan to avoid such power shortages, there seems that the ...

The Himalayan Times 18 February 2013 The government was forced to reverse its decision with regard to unscientific hiking the price of cooking gas. Thanks to collective protest made by the students’ union. Dr. Baburam Bhattarai led coalition government had tried to feel the nerves of the people by abruptly hiking the price as reported in “NOC jacks up LPG price by Rs. 630” (THT, 13 Feb. Page 1) . There must be big kickback involved in doing so considering the amount of price hike. It’s very sad to see the government’s anti-people working style that has hard hit the lives of the common people. The recent price increase in kerosene has already made the lives of the common people miserable. It was totally unjustifiable decision of the government to abruptly increase the price of LPG by Rs 630 without doing any proper homework for introducing dual cylinder systems in the market. What was the purpose of asking the consumers to collect the subsidized amount of Rs.550 from ...

I am neither a political activist nor a constitutional expert. However, I keep track-record of each and every irresponsible and insensible political act of these bunches of so-called senior political leaders who, most of their political careers, acted upon the interests of external powers. Shame on them. Now they are about to hand over the country’s executive power to Chief Justice regardless of their deputies’ strong reservations. I have heard that they have been pressurized for this unconstitutional act by southern neighbor and EU countries. Are they our leaders or slaves of foreign powers? What you say?

The Kathmandu Post Letter to the editor 10 February 2013 It was very disappointing to know that the Canadian government has decided to discontinue its decade long work in Nepal (“Canadian agency to stop work in Nepal ” 6 February Page 3) . Citing this decision as a part of Deficit Reduction Action Plan (DRAP) announced in the 2012 budget of Canadian Government, the winding down of country to country bilateral development assistance is very unfortunate for a poor country like Nepal . This will force to cease several development projects being implemented in rural areas of Nepal hampering the social and economic betterment of the poor. The Nepal government will have to be serious enough in using development assistance in the most effective manner in the days to come. It is hoped that the other donors will not the follow in the Canadian Government’s footsteps. Rai Biren Bangdel Maharajgunj, Kathmandu

The Himalayan Times 8 February 2013   This is with reference to “UCPN-M likely to propose ex-CJ as new PM” (THT, 6 Feb.2013). It was not a bad idea of UCPN-M to hold election towards the end of May through a consensus government to be formed under the leadership of ex-Chief Justice as the chances of forming the new government from among the parties were becoming slim. If UCPN-M were serious in their words, why don’t the NC and UML agree to go along with their (UCPN-M) proposal for resolving the on-going political stalemate at the soonest possible? It seems to the common people that the opposition parties are unnecessarily bargaining for the PM’s chair rather than concentrating their effort on resolving the national issues. The last four and half years have passed most unproductively in the political history of Republic Nepal. The so-called major political parties simply made the nation political hostage. They never seemed serious on drafting the new constitutio...

The Himalayan Times 1 February 2013 I am sure the common people like me must have been confused over the contradictory remarks made by the so-called senior leaders of both the opposition parties and coalition government about holding poll in Jestha 2069 as reported in “NC, UML averse to poll: Dahal” (THT, Jan.30, Page 5) and “UCPN-M reluctant to face elections, says Paudel” (THT, Jan. 30, Page 5). They are being heard regularly blaming each other for not being serious in holding the election.   Accusing each other has been their political propaganda these days rather than being serious in collectively solving the national problem. Who are they being driven and directed by has been the peoples concern. Otherwise, why don’t they try to find out the comprising point to hold the election on time and emancipate the nation from the on-going political and constitutional crisis? None of the political parties will benefit out of by flexing their political muscles at this crit...