By Nav Raj Pokharel
Higher ambition and no work is the reason why Nepal lags behind in every front of development. Poverty in the country did not sprout overnight. It has been invited over a period. No one but the self-esteemed leaders of the country in their turns decimated the country. Poverty in Nepal has been invited with volition.
Once the country is poor, nothing works smoothly. Political parties become enemy to the people and their fellow parties. Political system becomes corrupt and crippled. People turn aggressive, neighbors become antipathetic, and bullying in integrity, and sovereignty becomes flauntingly obvious.
Poverty is a bane to everything. Acrimonies erupt among the people, casts, creeds, culture, and region. People start seeking psychological asylum in the country where they feel their alternative proximity and affinity. Love for their country gradually gets eroded. Integrity and sovereignty becomes a gossip.
Misfortunately, banana republic of Nepal at this juncture of time stands aloof, under over burdened poverty, at the verge of collapse. Poverty ushers a stage where no state machinery functions efficiently. No political and social theories would be applicable. Democratic system or for that sake, any other political system becomes irrelevant. Federal set up, although it looks blossom in the neighbors’ garden, will wither in Nepal’s yard. Not because the systems have fallacies, but because the barren soil is not suitable. Democratic system, the developed countries are proud of, is a bane in the country where poverty proliferates. And so is true to any other form of the governments. Poverty demolish everything, the peace, happiness, unity, sovereignty, integrity, everything.
Drafting the new constitution alone will not placate the agony of the country. Fresh demarcation for federal set up will further dissociate areas and regions and eventually the people.
It is the situation where nothing but toil is last option. Toil is magnet that attracts prosperity. If presence of dark poverty is egregious to the nation’s present and future, absence of poverty is the last preference. Effacing the poverty that heralds prosperity is panacea, the medicine to all the ailments the country and the people are looking for past many decades.
Political parties both old and new, the leaders both mature and naïve should have the vision to see the truth looming in the horizon and face it, if what they repeatedly claim for – they love the county, they love the people and they are proud to be Nepali with all its vice and virtues- is honest and true.
Be united if possible. If not, do not pull the legs of others. Keep all the political difference aside for some time. Do not squabble over the share of the cake before it is cooked and ready to eat. Just like an assiduous entrepreneur, look for the long run profit. Do not expect handsome return the next day in power.
Focus all the strength, energy and synergy to produce goods and services. Use all tactical skills to propel economic growth. Encourage the people to opt for business and trade, for production and creation.
Once the country overcomes the poverty, golden dawn of new morning breaks in the east.
Prosperity is the panacea the people are looking for. Not the change for change sake. Peace, political stability, law and order situation, social harmony, sovereignty and integrity or you name them are but contingent to prosperity. Once the country avails it, everything is right. Capitalism in the USA and UK is right and socialism in China and Russia is right. All the isms are blessing. Baneful is poverty.
Therefore, do not waste time and energy. Start toiling. Do not just wish. If wishes were horses, the beggars would ride them. Do one thing at a time, on daily basis. Use the media to tell the people what you did today to bring about the tangible change in the economic sector. Do not waste a day, if desperate to win the race in long run.
If not, people will be compelled to adjudge the parties in power as just another glib, amorphous, anachronous, apocryphal, and by its virtues, ephemeral.
2008-09-10 05:54:16 The tegraph ( telegraphnepal.com)
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Comments (1)
Ye..its been enough of the bashan's the leader so skilfully execute...or on a second thought do they???????? the ohte day a leader ..one of the 'change' slogan people...was boasting outloud of how versatile his skills in speech deliveries is...........ok fine...coming to teh topic......i think this can be a topic of debate....poverty- as the root cause or is it disparity that provokes change????????? i agree with you to some extent...but there are points where my opinions vary........
Commented by cara - September 10, 2008 @ 10:54 AM
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