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The RPP Offers a Path to the Resurgent Himalayan Kingdom

By Shashi P.B.B. Malla

For everyone to see and experience, the main political parties of the Himalayan Republic are disintegrating, i.e. they are not being able to function as normal political parties.

For this, the current leaders of the main political parties have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams!

In the first instance, they have been reduced to institutions under the complete sway of old and absolutist leaders.

K.P. Sharma Oli of the CPN-UML, Sher Bahadur Deuba of the Nepali Congress, and Pushpa Kamal Dahal-Prachanda of the CPN-Maoist Centre consider themselves eternal leaders of their respective parties.

They do not practice internal party democracy and do not tolerate any opposition, let alone groom prospective successors.

Because of their attitudes and practices, they have succeeded in corrupting all the institutions of the Himalayan Republic.

Nothing is intact, everything is corrupt.

The Himalayan Republic has been reduced to such a political quagmire, that only a complete regeneration of the whole political system will be necessary if we are to preserve the nation’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.

This is where the Rashtriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) led by Rajendra Lingden and Gyanendra Shahi (both members of parliament) comes in.

Although the RPP also has some internal challenges, Lingden and Shahi are on the right track.

Above all, the RPP is a thoroughly patriotic party, which considers the country’s national interests to be the sine qua non of all its actions.

Thus the restoration of the Hindu State is an inalienable part of our national identity.

Having a president as head of state has not functioned in the appropriate manner.

Whereas, a monarch as head of state has everything to speak for it. History, tradition and modern practice overwhelmingly supports monarchy in a country like Nepal – multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, multi-religious.

We have had a monarch not only since the great Prithvi Narayan Shah, but since the founding of the kingdom(s) in the Nepal Mandala. The monarchy, therefore, predates the Shah Dynasty.

With a constitutional monarch as head of state, we would have avoided the current tamasha of former federal president Bidya Bhandari attempting to rejoin daily politics of the country. In any case, her presidency was not particularly impressive, and she actually played second fiddle to the prime minister.

Lingden and Shahi must rapidly build a nascent and dynamic team to prepare and organize the resistance/revolution to topple the degenerated Himalayan Republic.

No doubt, they will have to undertake a two front struggle – one against their detractors [lacking vision and suffused with a surfeit of personal egos] in their own movement, and against the protagonists of the status quo [defending the complete non-fulfilment and washout of ‘Loktantra, Republicanism, Federalism and Secularism], who will resist regime change.

The writer can be reached at:

shashimalla125@gmail.com