Leaders Vs.Hypocrites

By Nav Raj Pokharel

It is why majority of common people believe politics a dirty game.

When you have perfidious key players at top in the politics feeding trepidations in the mind of people for their secured role in future instead of precluding them right in the present , you can only curse on your fate and at most, despise the country for the leaderships she happened to have.

When you see the country lawless just like a jungle, where ascendancy of predation, trepidation and apprehension are at the apex, helplessly you blame your hapless fate and finally capitulate your conscience and future to the quandary leaders who are always busy in calculating their position and strength of bargain based on the deleterious present.

Power moguls in a banana country like Nepal can find many opportunities to feed the naïve, simple and credulous people the dream of peace and prosperity for tomorrow. Bewildered with the incredible promises to be met tomorrow and apprehensions of predation today, people willy-nilly concede to the situations. This is how leaders reign in banana countries over the world.

Leaders distributing ideologies at predatory price are sure to collapse. Only few visionary leaders can save the country and its people but it is once in hundreds of years to have visionary leaders like Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kenney, Mandela, King Martin Luther Jr, in the west and, Mahatma Gandhi in the neighboring country in forefront of politics.

Therefore, it seems, it is also some part of good fortune to have visionary leaders when the country need them during her worst time.

Horde of so-called representatives of the people are like you and me, made up with the same genetic, flesh and blood that survives on worldly materials and easily amused of affluence. It is all right with us, for we are not representatives or leaders. However, it should not be so to those who voluntarily opt in to be representatives and leaders of the people and the country. If they are like you and I, (and in fact they are) it is not just anything more than leading a blind by another blind. Both of them are sure fall into the ditch.

Leaders and representatives of the country should not be groomed up the way common public do. They need to feed on worldly materials but they should not live for the worldly pleasures as we common people do, because they are different. They need different skill, a compassionate heart to feel the pain of the people, honest mind, and a strong sense of belief that the profession they have chosen will not give them anything except a sense of satisfaction. Their sole pleasure of living is rested on the pleasure and happiness of the people whose only aspiration is peace, freedom, human rights and prosperity. Leaders sans the natural propensity to be the true servant of the people can never become a leader. They are merely hypocrites.

Nepal has plenty of leaders and representatives. The interim parliament's estimate of more than six hundred representatives for the Constituent Assembly, suggests the number of leaders the small country is going to have only on the central level. But are they groomed up to be the leader? Or, are they simply like you and I, opting political machination for hedonism? The answer is anyone's guess.

A true leader does not instigate problems. He rather precludes the possibility of the problems before they get safer soil to germinate. A hypocrite thrives on the volatile situations. He takes benefit from anything weaker, be it the situation or the people.

A true leader serves the people in true sense. He is honest, selfless and has benevolent heart. His selfless attitude does not bring him plenty of material properties. .And, he is happy for, he knows it.

However, unlike a true and selfless leader, hypocrites crave for hedonism. Their perquisites form the government may be insignificant but from nowhere get richer and richer every year.

Let us assess our leaders with this simple gauge, no, not with anything-particular purpose in hand, but only to verify further if they are what we think, they are. ##