HOPE FOR THE BEST

HOPE FOR THE BEST

It was really encouraging and good to know that the four major parties finally inked 16-point deal concerning drafting new constitution by mid-July 2015 at such a time when Nepal is passing through a difficult time due to recent killer earthquake. It has been a pleasant surprise. Nonetheless, it is yet to see in the days ahead whether they will be able to materialize their promises. What made them to come to consensus on federating Nepal into eight states that had remained the bone of contention among them for long has not been difficult to guess.

The active involvement of non political actors in the rescue and relief operations in the aftermath of devastating earthquake remained to be the lesson for all the political party leaders to learn and realize their sense of responsibilities who completely failed to show their presence at the time of crucial moment. They tried to show their presence in the affected areas at latter days when the people had already started questioning about their whereabouts. Not surprisingly, some of the senior leaders of four major political parties started floating the idea of forming a national government to save their faces in the name of strongly dealing with the devastating situation in the nation.

There did not seem any better option for them to convince the people who were given false promises of giving new constitution for the last 7/8 years except forging consensus on the contentious issues of the new constitution without any delay. Also the factors among others, such as Sushil Koirala, wanting to take the credit of promulgating the new constitution, K P Oli vying for ascending to the highest political helm, Prachanda and Gachhedar looking for face saving situation, remained to be crucial in bringing them together to sign the deal. Let us hope that they will be able to achieve their political dreams by giving new constitution to the nation and its people on promised deadline.

Rai Biren Bangdel

Maharajgunj