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By Babbler

Our political parties and leaders are dancing to the tune of foreign powers. There is heavy foreign influence in the judiciary, executive bodies, and administration. Candidates for the March 5 elections have already been fixed by foreign powers.

We vote for our leaders, but foreign forces decide the new prime minister and ministers. We therefore believe that elections are merely a formality for practicing democracy.

Appreciating President Trump

American President Donald Trump has honestly taught many lessons to the world. He stated that nothing is a free gift. Trump claimed that Ukraine should pay the price for the support provided by the US. He is now asking Denmark to repay the support previously provided by the USA. Trump has demanded a share of natural resources in Ukraine and Greenland.

One US ambassador here was once found saying that the MCC is a grant project, not a loan. However, how Americans enter into foreign countries in the name of grants has not been hidden by Trump.

Trump has discouraged foreign immigrants, including Nepalis in the USA. This is a good decision, this Babbler believes. Why should we visit the USA by paying a deposit worth 2.5 million rupees? Especially, Nepalis should take a good lesson from President Trump.

Durga Prasai Is a Headache

Durga Prasai has become a headache for many political leaders and also for officials at the Election Commission. We also suspect how quickly the Commission made the decision to recognize the Gagan Thapa–led Nepali Congress. Prasai claimed that there was a deal worth 250 million rupees involved in recognizing the Thapa-led NC.

The Supreme Court is delaying its response to the case filed by the Sher Bahadur Deuba faction against the recognition of the Gagan Thapa–led NC.

Such acts have created suspicion about the functioning of autonomous bodies in Nepal. Instead of conducting a fair investigation into the allegations made by Prasai, the Election Commission has filed a cybercrime case against him.

Balendra Shah’s Vote Bank

Finally, Balendra Shah joined the Rastriya Swatantra Party as a senior leader under the American deep state’s design. He chose Jhapa No 5 as his electoral constituency, where former prime minister and UML Chair K.P. Sharma Oli is contesting.

Balendra has expressed his desire to defeat Oli and end his political career. After losing popularity following his tenure as mayor of Kathmandu Metropolitan City, he decided to move to Jhapa. He believes Jhapa is a district dominated by the Christian community and also those immigrants from India, who obtained Nepali citizenship, as a strong vote bank for him. Furthermore, those who are engaged in the West-backed identity based politics can be the voters of the RSP.

Not surprisingly, in the previous election, Christians in Nepal received a circular urging them to vote for the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP). This is one of the reasons Ravi Lamichhane was able to secure victory from Chitwan twice.

Since Nepal became a secular nation and amended its citizenship law, the Christian community and immigrants from India have become decisive forces in elections.

EXCERPTS FROM SOCIAL NETWORKS

In post-1990 Nepal, the real economy was hollowed out and broker-centric financialization was encouraged. Education deteriorated, talent migrated abroad, and jobs disappeared. Because of this hollow economy, there has been mass youth migration.
Reversing this vicious cycle is extremely difficult for anyone.

–Surya Raj Acharya

Baslen Shah’s failed plan to develop Kathmandu:

Turning waste into wealth: zero; construction of public toilets: zero; management of footpath vendors: zero; resolving squatter problem: zero; accountability: zero; interaction with the media: zero; dialogue with the people: zero.

Should we chose a zero?

–Nirmal Prasai
While mayor, he (Balen) could not spend even 50% of the development budget. He kept fighting with everyone — fighting with the Prime Minister, with ministers, with ward chairpersons, with other mayors of the valley, and with metropolitan staff.

Waste management failed. Dust flies on the roads; you can’t even walk properly. How many days did the mayor himself walk on the roads? If he had spent 100% of the development budget and at least washed the roads, he could have claimed he did something.

Someone who cannot work in cooperation with others — how will he run the country? And should a Facebook-obsessed hothead be voted in as Prime Minister? It turns out even his morality is zero — in the end he took shelter with a conman.

—Rudra Pandey

Do you know why the leader recommended as number one by the party workers did not get the ticket?

Because the leadership knows that party workers can be ignored!

The rebellion we carried out in the Congress party was exactly against this tendency. I don’t think everything turned out right, but some change definitely happened.

—Jugal Bhurtel

When you see that even after 24 years, the family of a teacher who was brutally murdered in broad daylight still has to struggle for justice, it feels like all human rights activists and lawyers should retire.

They should shut down their campaigns — out of shame, at least.

An innocent life, and on top of that, the clever and powerful building their identity by stepping on it!

–Sudeep Khaniya
In our country:
Democracy’s “demo” has crashed,
the Legislature has become a “chair for lazy people”, the Judiciary has turned into a “drunkard”, and corruption has become a “tax option” for civil servants.

–Bhishma

Since there is a zero progress to build in the metropolis, now the mayor is setting out to build the country. First, rebuild Singha Durbar (the parliament building) that was burned — everything else can be as it is, if only the people believe it.

–Nirmal Hamal

After Trump became President for the second time, he said he would make Canada the 51st state of America. Then he said Greenland was part of the United States. After that, he picked a dispute with Panama over the Panama Canal, and finally, playing the role of a kidnapper, he abducted the president of Venezuela while he was asleep and took him to New York.

No amount of criticism of the Trump administration’s interventionist policies would be enough.

–Ratan Bhandari

The picture is of 69-year-old Cilia Flores, the wife of Venezuela’s abducted and deposed President Nicolás Maduro explains a lot. When she was presented in a closed court in New York, the injuries on her face were clearly visible.

Since the Second World War, America has strutted on the world’s political stage like a neighborhood thug, flexing its muscles while chanting the mantra of peace, democracy, and human rights. When it has not even treated women in its own country equally, how could it be expected to respect the wife of a so-called dictator?

Although America declared itself an independent nation in 1776, it took 144 years to grant voting rights to its own women. Even the declaration of women’s voting rights in 1920 through the 19th constitutional amendment was made for men’s interests. The vote of “half the sky” is not a small matter.

Even today, in this so-called civilized world of the twenty-first century, American women have not been able to truly experience or practice equality. It is an established norm that women are paid less than men for the same work. Not to mention sexual exploitation.

A country that considers its own women second-class citizens — expecting it to treat another man’s wife with dignity is somewhat unrealistic and an idealistic expectation.

Every empire has its lifespan. Donald Trump has not done anything new. He is merely speeding along the highway of his empire’s decline.

–Rajesh Mishra

The international “law-based order,” governed mainly by the UN, has been seriously challenged by the West’s “international rules-based order.”

So what?

Can the “Global South” challenge this?

Can the “Global South” challenge and weaken the Western “octopus,” whose tentacles are spread across the globe?

–Sadaya Rana

In no country is a king placed on the throne through a referendum or election. Our king has already relinquished the throne voluntarily. Now it is the people’s wish to reinstate him, as he has no lust for power like corrupt politicians. His only love is for the country and its people.

–Pooja Chhetri

By mobilizing paid media and YouTubers, and through the power of deception, manipulation, and corruption, Kulman—who was portrayed as a god—has finally been forced to resign due to pressure from the same social media and media outlets!

Now, if elections are held on March 5, the curtain of illusion around him will be lifted by that very election.

–Sujan Pandit

Could it be because Nepal’s mainstream media do not have the proper “label” or status that Balen’s interview is going to appear in international media?

–Upen Singh

What Swarnim Wagle said is exactly the Monroe Doctrine—the policy Trump applied to Venezuela. By citing that doctrine, he has claimed that America has the right to do so. Now maybe Nepal will also be handed over, right?

–Swagat Nepal

Anyone who tries to divide us, let they all be united and protect their republican forces and their constitution.
—Ekant Sharma
The Gen Z movement is being turned into an electoral tool:

–Miraj Dhungana, Gen Z activist

I don’t know when these guys were born, but I was born and educated during the time of the monarchy. I came to Kathmandu only after multiparty democracy was introduced. I studied in a government school and have reached this position today.

My father studied with great hardship in the hills and reached a respectable position. We did not need anyone’s “source-force” (connections or influence). When people don’t know whom to be angry at, this is what happens.

–Tanka Dahal

Whether going to Delhi or anywhere else—hasn’t it become a situation where the West and India are confronting each other in Nepal’s elections? This world runs on “might is right.”

–Madan Regmi

 If the country survives, we survive…
…Why delay moving toward a prosperous democratic system that includes religion, culture, civilization, and history?

–Saino

Excerpted and translated by Sushma Shrestha.