By Babbler

The toilet is important for human beings, moreover, sometimes, it becomes a lifesaving place as well. Yogesh Bhattarai, an MP from Taplejung, and an influential leader in the UML, saved his life in his own home district by hiding inside a toilet.

Bhattarai like an influential leader had never thought that locals would protest against him in his own home district. Lesson: let’s not neglect the toilet; let’s not forget the base where we are standing!

A diplomatic blunder

When the Foreign Minister and a member of the Royal Family of UAE, Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed, was on an official visit to Nepal, the host country’s Foreign Minister Dr Arzu Rana Deuba was out of the country.

During that time, Arzu was on a family trip to Bangkok with her husband Sher Bahadur Deuba and her son. The UAE is an important country in the Gulf. When an important dignitary from the UAE was visiting Nepal, the absence of his counterpart and host at home is considered to be a diplomatic blunder committed by Nepal.

Not odd that the political parties in the government have not understood the importance of diplomacy.

Partisan teachers against their own parties’ government

Anar Singh Karki, a senior Nepali Congress dissident leader, remarked that those teachers in agitation in the Kathmandu streets are none other than the voters, organizers and workers either of the Nepali Congress or the UML. The teachers felt that at a time when the parties for which they voted were in the government, they hoped for the fulfilment of their demands. Instead, the government, to suppress the agitation, used water cannons against them.

Karki has stated that these days, the Nepali Congress are unable to recognize their pioneer leaders Krishnaprasad Bhattarai and Ganeshman Singh, accordingly, the UML cannot recognize Manmohan Adhikari, among others. Therefore, the government is unable to recognize the teachers in agitation.

Now, the leaders in the NC or UML only recognize those commission agents, brokers and smugglers. How the pro-monarchy movement was turned into a violent incident, perhaps, the teachers have understood.

QUOTES OF THE WEEK

If the parliamentarians had truly taken responsibility for the nation, such a bad situation would never have arisen. Those from the major parties do not speak out against deliberate wrongdoing. Some show-off, this is nothing but a ploy to loot the nation.

Professor Ganga Thapa

I have known Rabindra Mishra for more than three decades. He dreams of a better future for Nepal and its people. There could be very few people who can win Mishra in his patriotism.

Suman Kharel

To say bluntly, the murder of one young man shooting out from the back, the bullet firing on 20 people, including innocent brothers, was a terrorist attack by the state on its own citizens at Tinkune on March 28. The state used excessive power to suppress the peaceful assembly. The misuse of power by the state, which has the responsibility to protect the lives of the citizens, to fire indiscriminately on its own people is many times more dangerous than terrorism. It is a display of hypocrisy on the part of the planners of the Tinkune state terror, those responsible for it and those who remain silent on it, to express grief over the terrorist attack in Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir. It's shameful.

Sharad Raj Pathak

All supreme leaders since 2063 BS are corrupt and on sale.

Yubraj Ghimire

Prime Minister Oli said, "Don't expect others to build the country." Still, he is not aware that the nation cannot be built by exporting the electricity produced in Nepal to foreign countries without being consumed in Nepal.

We were blamed for being the ultra-nationalist and anti-development people when we protested that the issue of the ratification of the agreement with a general institution (MCC) by the Parliament would hurt the nation’s dignity.

It was also blown away by the fact that the 12-point explanatory declaration by Parliament was unilaterally annulled.

Ratna Sansar Shrestha Nepali

In Nepal, we are allowed only to pay tax but cannot earn. The nation is on the brink of people’s revolt.

Deva Prakash Tripathi

The bearers of the idea of democracy, including Hindu Rashtra and Monarchy, are the warriors of belief. They're not alone in jail. All nationalists are committed to their release.

Kamal Thapa

BP's belief that the institution of monarchy is "needed by all who seek to keep the country." Every Nepali who thinks about the existence and future of the country should follow his ideas. Don't you wonder why BP, who was deposed by the king, imprisoned for 8 years and forced to live in exile for another 8 years, became a pro-monarchy?

Dhruba H. Adhikary

If all the forces in Nepal aren’t able to move forward together, there is sure to occur a big accident soon. The institute of monarchy is also a power.

Khildhowj Thapa

 Out of the preparations made by the (Indian) government to stop the farmers from coming to Delhi, only if 5% of the preparations were done for the security of the country then the terrorist attack in Pahalgam could have been avoided!

Hansraj Meena

The leaders opened the student organizations, the teachers carried the party flags, the chairmen of the school management committee are party workers, the curriculum producing unemployment, and the entire country's education system is destroyed by the mafia.

Bishnu Pokhrel

After setting an example of involving anyone in any fake case by those who are in power have established a precedence for paving the way that they may face the same charges when they will go out of power. This is called a Banana Republic.

Raj Sharma

 Are there any other parties more filled with corrupt criminals than Congress, UML and Maoists?

Sagar Dhakal

They refuse to form an investigation committee on the Tinkune violence, and then the government itself selectively kills people. Innocent individuals are imprisoned just for having different opinions.

Kirtika Tharu

After K.P. Oli assumed power, religion and culture are in danger; public land, rivers, forests, are insecure; Electricity Authority, Airlines Corporation, Oil Corporation and other government undertakings are insecure; medical doctors, nurses are insecure; educational institutions, teachers and students are insecure and people are always in terror.

Som Raj Pathak

The Police behavior against Rabindra Mishra is objectionable. To handcuff inside the Court premises is illegal.

Bhimarjun Acharya

The more days the government keeps Rabindra Mishra under police custody, the more anger against the government will intensify. Mishra may not be completely clean, but he is not spoiled more than KP Oli or Deuba.

Sadiksha Karki

If they fail to gather necessary evidence against Rabindra Mishra, isn't that enough to release him on bail?

Bipin Adhikari

In 2005, the government had banned human rights activists from travelling abroad. At a high-level meeting, I said, "The damage they can do by going abroad is much less than the damage they can do by stopping them from going abroad". Then the ban was released. I say the same in the case of Rabindra Mishra.

Madhu Raman Acharya

Convince me: 1. Would releasing Rabindra Mishra strengthen his ideas or loktantra? 2. Is there no misuse of state power in treating him like heinous criminals? 3. Wouldn't the system be weakened if the parties are afraid of different opinions? 4. Don’t you release him if you can't gather evidence? 5. Will Mishra run away if he is released?

Phalano

Excerpted and translated by Sushma Shrestha