I have thoroughly studied Gyanendra's interviews and speeches given over a period of years and I have come to the firm conclusion this man is an autocrat by upbringing and character. This is someone with a zamindari mentality. He has an ideology, it is called Monarchism. Like Baburam is a Maoist, I am a Democrat, a Progressive, Gyanendra is a Monarchist.
In that ideology there is a king who is above the law, and he has his subjects. Those subjects may not speak against the king. The subjects have no rights other than what the king might have given them in limited forms and might take away at any time. The subjects have no birth rights. The king rules by decree. He has his sycophants and underlings. He treats the state treasury like it were his personal wealth. He probably has an army clique loyal to him. But it is more monetary incentives than loyalty at work.
He is a plant. To him democratic parties and their leaders are animals, a whole different species.
The plant looks at an animal and complains, look, I told you, it moves, it has eyes, it speaks, it eats with the mouth open, it has no roots. No roots!
He criticizes 12 years of democracy. He forgets that Nepal is two years older than America. If Nepal had been born as a democracy like America, it too would have been to the moon by now. This monarch is shameless when he criticizes 12 years of democracy.
He says the democrats were not able to solve the Maoist problem. Deuba got six months, Chand got six. Gyan has had his turn. He needs to resign on grounds of failure. The state is absent in 80% of the national territory.
He talks of corruption. Measured in absolute dollar terms, he is the most corrupt person in Nepal's history. (Somnath Ghimire: King G Is Pinochet)
He accuses the democrats of having competed for power. That is like accusing Bill Gates of wanting to make money. Businessmen work to make money, they compete for market share. Politicians vie to get into power. You compete for the people's votes to acquire the tools of power so you can do good. Look, the animal has eyes. It has legs, it moves.
What he calls bickering among the politicians would be called political dialogue by any sane person.
He accuses the politicians of not loving Nepal like he loves Nepal. It is like someone once said of a butterfly collector, "He loves butterflies so much, he kills them, and then puts them up for display." This king has subjected the country to a slow death.
No roots!
The politicians did not have the option to look at a military solution to the insurgency because the army was still controlled by the king even when the politicians were in power. The politicians did not have the option to look at a political solution because the palace never came forth saying it was okay with the idea of a constituent assembly.
The palace has to take total blame for the insurgency.
A graph has to be drawn showing how many Nepalis lost their lives before and after Gyanendra. Nepalis killed by both sides to the conflict are the responsibility of this king, because he has been in power. He has had the executive authority.
The mayor of New York City takes responsibility for the crime rate in town. He does not get to blame the criminals.
This king is not interested in seeking dialogue with the democrats. Or he would take initiative.
He is not interested in peace, or he would have given a sane response to the Maoist ceasefire.
He is not interested in Nepal's prosperity, or he would hurry up and help end the civil war.
He sure is not interested in democracy. To be interested, he would first have to know what democracy is. He does not. He is a plant looking at an animal. Democracy to him is a foreign concept.
His relentless attacks on the political parties, the civil society, the student leaders, the media, and the NGOs, and the people in general, because all direct attacks on the leaders are an indirect attack on the Nepali people, show this king can only show the face he has, and he has the face of an autocrat.
There is no alternative to a mass movement.
Plants do not understand animals. Animals do not have the option to reason with plants.
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1 comment:
is it possible that nepal can be run further with same definition of nationalism as in past that emphasises sidelining of all other groups in nepal except the bahun-chettri and newar combine?
Is there any natural force that acts to stop oppression? TO me the future doesnot look much optimistic for the discriminated majority in nepal.
And the major question is this autocrat ever gonna take steps to make him the king of whole nepal rather than a symbol of feudalism...
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