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Prachanda has to be commended for this deft move. He has not lost the war, he has not even lost the battle. I greatly admire his passion for land reform: I share it. But it is going to have to be carried out by a duly elected government.
This is a great tactical move on his part. It will serve him and his party well. He has not hurt the cause of land reform one bit. Actually he has greatly helped it. Now it is much more likely elections will be held in November. A unified communist party could come into power after the country gets a new constitution, and hopefully by then we are a democracy of state funded parties. Land reform can then be legitimately carried out. It should be easy to sell the idea to the landless, the poor. Vote for us, we will secure land for you.
This move on the part of Prachanda now also takes the country one step closer to being a republic. This is progress.
The Maoists have to completely move away from power-flows-through-the-barrel-of-a-gun to power-flows-through-the-ballot-box. We have to become a federal republic of state-funded parties. When gun power and muscle power have been completely taken out of the equation, if the Maoists were to become the majority or the largest party, that would not bother me one bit.
The Truth And Reconciliation Commission deals with the excesses of the decade long civil war. The Maoists get to have a clear start as a political party. And because they are ahead of all the other parties - way ahead - on all the burning issues of the day - republic, federalism, land reform - they are well positioned to emerge the largest party in the country.
They are the ones to have taken the lead on the idea of a constituent assembly. They are the ones who have been taking the lead on the republic issue. The other parties don't even have a map for federalism. How can you be for federalism when you don't even have a map? It is like saying I want to go jogging, but I refuse to get out of bed. While you are in bed, you sure are not jogging. And it is the Maoist map for federalism that I myself have adopted with slight modifications. They have nine states, I have eight. I am personally very thankful to them for the Madhesh state they have outlined. That is not what I started out wanting. But by now I am super committed to the idea of a Madhesh state, and the Madhesh state I have in mind is ditto that the Maoists have in mind. Obviously they knew things I did not know, or not as well. And I am plain thankful as a Madhesi.
I am no communist. Only this past month I registered a company in New York City, a technology startup. The Maoists might call me a capitalist. I am a multi-millionaire in the making. I am going to be bigger than Upendra Mahato in five to seven years. But they must believe me when I say I am for land reform. I share their passion. Land reform makes market sense to me. Land reform will lead to raised agricultural productivity, especially when it is accompanied by near universal micro credit so small farmers can invest in productivity tools like fertilizers and farm machinery.
I have so much political agreement with the Maoists, sometimes I get scared. But they must work to improve their methods. They have taken a huge leap in putting their soldiers into cantonments. And their militia became the YCL. That is still progress. Now they must move further. You put one foot after another, that is how you walk. You have to keep walking. Take the next step and the next. Keep walking. Become a political party, completely.
Once the Maoists have completely transformed into a political party, they are going to make it possible for the UML to think in terms of one unified communist party in Nepal. I will look forward to it. I like the idea of there being only one communist party in Nepal.
The day we become a multiparty democracy of state funded parties, we become the number one democracy on the planet. It will be only a matter of time before India and China follow in our footsteps.
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