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Nepal's Terai People In Deplorable Conditions: MahtoTo: Koirala, Nepal, KC, Pokharel, Tripathy, Mahto And The RestPhone Interview With Rajendra MahatoPhotosVideosAnil Jha, Nepal Sadbhavana Party 1Anil Jha, Nepal Sadbhavana Party 2Anil Jha, Nepal Sadbhavana Party 3 Madhesi Gathering In Prospect Park 1 Madhesi Gathering In Prospect Park 2 Ridgewood Dashain PartyI would like to publicly congratulate Rajendra Mahto, my friend of over a decade, for having been unanimously elected president of the Sadbhavana party. His election was the icing on the cake. The party's convention has also come up with some other major positive developments.
The party president's powers have been reduced, and that is a good thing. The party should get into the habit of holding extensive internal discussions before taking major discussions. The process of reaching decisions is almost as important as the decisions reached.
The party is going to go out of its way to make sure its central committee is inclusive of the Dalits and the Janajatis and women and youth. That is very good thing. The Dalits are in the Terai what the Madhesis are in Nepal. The Madhesi leadership must go out of its way to uplift the Dalits in the Terai. That the Dalits in the Pahad do not fare any better is no excuse. Similarly, the party must show that it is inclusive of Tharus. The party's central committee, I hope, is at least one third women.
Rajendra Mahto now has the powers to try to punish the Sadbhavana leaders who recently tried to snatch away his cabinet position. He could sideline them inside the party. But he should not give into that temptation. Those dissidents might still stay away, but on his part, the Sadbhavana's new party president must go out of his way to try and bring as many of those dissidents into the fold as possible. He should work extra hard to get people like Hridayesh Tripathy, Bharat Bimal Yadav and others to come into the party's new central committee. If he can not take that first step, it will become harder for him to forge a grand Madhesi Alliance with the MJF, Jwala, Goit and others. Now is the time to bring together all Madhesi leaders, inside the party and outside, under the slogan of Ek Madhesh, Ek Pradesh.
Hridayesh Tripathy had been using Anandi Devi like a pawn. That was wrong. Either Tripathy should himself contest to be party president, or he should be more respectful of those who do take up officer positions in the party.
The Sadbhavana has come up with a viable map for federalism: three states that get further divided into regions. So all of Terai would be one state, and there might be three or four regions inside that state. That model can work. This is better than the newest Maoist map that physically breaks the Terai into two by giving Chitwan over to some hill state. That can't be done. All of Terai has to be one state, it has to be one continuous geographic unit.
So I guess you end up with a Terai state, and inside that state you will have a Mithila, a Bhojpur, an Awadh, and a Tharuwan. I can live with that.
What really caught my attention though - since Mahto's election to the party president's post was a foregone conclusion even before the convention started - was that the party has said the Prime Minister of the country must be directly elected. That is a huge move. And this makes the Sadbhavana to be the first big party in the country to go for this. I congratulate Sarita Giri, the author of the party's manifesto, for making this major jump.
You would hold direct elections. And if no one candidate gets at least 50% of the votes cast, within a month, you hold a second round between the two top candidates.
To my mind this provision for a directly elected Prime Minister is the best thing to have come out of this recent convention of the Sadbhavana party. This would make for a better arrangement than what India, Britain and America have.
During the 1994-1996 period, there used to the Nepal Samajwadi Janata Dal. It had two MPs: Rameshwar Raya Yadav, and Hridayesh Tripathy. Sarita Giri and I were Vice General Secretaries to that party. Rajendra Mahto was a central committee member.
Rajendra Mahto's number one task right now is to show magnanimity and work hard to bring all the disgruntled leaders back into the fold. I think he should go ahead and show up at the homes of those leaders, people like Hridayesh, Bharat Bimal, and Rameshwar Raya Yadav. All of them should be urged to join the party's central committee. Heck, even Anandi Devi would look great in the party's central committee.
It also feels good to see Anil Jha playing such an active part in the Sadbhavana's leadership. Our friendship has been forged during our meetings during his two trips to New York City.
I am extremely happy that Rajendra Mahto is now party president of the Sadbhavana.
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