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By Shashi P.B.B. Malla

While the suffering of the common people is growing day by day, the Dons of the Himalayan Republic are only concerned with ‘high politics’, i.e., the various schemes to enrich themselves and how to remain in power, in order ‘to make hay while the sun shines’.

For the Nepalese of the middle and lower classes, it is becoming very difficult to make ends meet with the ever increasing costs of food, housing and education.

Since the government has no viable or sustainable economic policy, life is going downhill for most Nepalese.

The price of the staple rice has increased by 60 % between 2019 and 2023!

The price of cooking oil has gone up by 67 %.

Whereas, the price of imported chocolate has remained stable!

It is as if the Oli government is telling Nepalese to eat chocolate instead of rice, which has become so much expensive.

Rent prices have also exploded. A two-bedroom apartment which cost NRs. 15,000 per month in 2019, now costs NRs. 25,000.

Private school fees have also seen a sharp rise.

As regards public health, Oli and his comrades-in-government and henchmen, are basically telling the Nepali people: ‘don’t get ill, if you cannot afford to pay the doctors, hospitals and buy medicine’!

For all these reasons, the youth see no future in the Himalayan Republic and are increasingly voting with their feet.

Instead of taking resolute and determined action, the members of the current government have been reduced to making high-flown statements, indicating all the good things that they have already achieved and what is still in store for the hapless citizens.

  • PM Oli has the effrontery to urge graduates to serve the nation [How; and how about him and his sidekicks]
  • He has announced that plans are afoot to open large industries [Even current industries have not provided sustained and balanced growth. The government has neither competent economists like Dr. Swarnim Wagle, nor a people-friendly economic policy].
  • The Minister for Communication & Information Technology, Prithvi Subba Gurung has said that the greatest service and religion in life is serving humanity. [He and his boss, the current ‘Don of all the Dons’ should practice what they preach].

These Dons have also not hesitated to call upon the nonplused citizens to themselves undertake relevant and inspired action.

Unfortunately, the precepts of the Dons have not only fallen on deaf years, the so-called ‘People’s Democracy’ or Loktantra has become a dead albatross around their necks.

There is little doubt that the current political dispensation has failed the people of Nepal in every respect.

Some radical measures are necessary to bring about regime change and renewal of our Matribhumi.

Genuinely patriotic Nepalese – starting with former King Gyanendra – and including such stalwarts as Rajendra Lingden and Gyan Bahadur Shahi must be the vanguard of a new people’s movement to combat the anti-national and anti-social elements of Nepalese society.

The time is now!

The writer can be reached at: shashipbmalla@hotmail.com