By P.R. Pradhan At a time when the leaders of the ruling five-party alliance have intensified daylight loot and accelerated anti-national moves to continue in power further by pleasing Indians, President Bidya Devi Bhandari has expressed serious concern about the future of Nepal. She is learnt to have asked to save the nation ensuring Nepali sovereignty, independence and freedom with those people she is meeting these days. Since she sent back the citizenship amendment bill to Parliament for reconsideration and the lower house neglecting the President’s quest, passed it as it is, President Bhandari has become furious. She has seen a threat to national sovereignty if the citizenship bill is passed as it is. Her concerns on the present political developments and the controversial citizenship amendment bill have created suspicion for those leaders performing anarchism misusing loktantra and majority in parliament. Especially when the President invited present and former Nepal Army chiefs and former Nepal Army generals for a dinner and consulted on the citizenship bill -- which has been tabled in the National Assembly after its ratification from the lower house without addressing the President’s concern -- the parties in the ruling alliance have become suspicious. The President is continuing consultations with people from different walks of life and also with the leaders from different political parties. The president had sent back the bill -- presented to her for an official seal -- to Parliament for reconsideration mentioning her concern on 15 points on the bill. Many of the Nepal Army’s ex-officials, during the meeting with the President, apprised the President’s move to return the bill and asked her to take a strong stance before putting seal on the bill – as the bill is against the nation’s interests. They had also suggested not quitting from the post even if Parliament will send the bill again without addressing the President’s concern. They also suggested initiating other possible actions by the President. What could be the other move of the President, the five-party alliance leaders have become suspicious. The next day after the President met the Chief of Army Staff, PM Deuba reached the Nepal Army headquarters and tried to sense the mood of the Nepal Army on the constitution amendment bill and the present dispute between the head of state and the chief executive. In her reply to the former Army officials, the President had said that she is not going to quit the post but initiate a possible move. The citizenship amendment bill has already been ratified by the lower house and now it is under consideration of the National Assembly, in the meantime, the President has accelerated her meetings with leaders from different political parties. On 29 August, she met with the leaders from RPP, NC and UML. Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba reached Sittal Niwas on Monday along with Dharmaraj Gurung, Gagan Thapa and minister Gyanendra Bahadur Karki. During the meeting also, the President had expressed her dissatisfaction with not addressing her 15-point concerns on the citizenship bill. Later, she also met with a group of UML leaders led by Subhas Nembang. Different sources have claimed that during the meetings with the political leaders, the President had explained the poor state of the nation. She had explained the poor economic situation of the country especially after the five-party alliance government was formed. According to the Nagarik daily, the President said to the political leaders from different political parties that if the country will not exist, there will be no existence of the president, prime minister, ministers, parliament and politics. She said, “the country’s situation is very fluid. Let’s save the nation first.” The real picture of the country: The President is not alone to feel the country’s poor situation. Former king Gyanendra is time and again expressing the same view. Chitra Bahadur KC, the alliance partner in the government, is saying that the present system has become an elephant for the nation. In the last five years, the country’s foreign debt has become double. The country is needed to lend more funding to function the present federal structure. As long as we continue this system, Nepal will become further poor and foreign debt will further incline pushing the country into a failed state. In the meantime, former chief justice Kalyan Shrestha, who is known to be the spokesperson of the West, has also felt that there is a need to rewrite the constitution as it could not function properly. The daylight loot by political leaders in power has become rampant. Moreover, the present citizenship amendment bill is solely in the interests of the expansionist Indians, who intended to empower those Indian migrated population with Nepali citizenship.