Democracy For Nepal: Yadav

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Tuesday, September 01, 2015

७०:३० कि ६०: ४०?

एमाओवादी ले अहिले संविधान सभा छोड्छ र हामी सँग सड़कमा आउँछ भने अंतरिम सरकार ६०: ४० हो। ६० हाम्रो संघीय गठबंधन को। ४० एमाओवादी को। नेतृत्व संघीय गठबंधन को। स्वाभाविक कुरो। चरी-घैंटे गठबंधन सरकार ढल्नु अगाडि नै तर आउनु पर्ने हुन्छ।

होइन भने सरकार र संविधान सभा ढले पछि ७०:३० हुन्छ। ७० हाम्रो संघीय गठबंधन को। ३० अरुको।

एका को साफ करो। एमाले काँग्रेस को देश भर से साफ करो।

लालु को MY (Muslim-Yadav), उपेन्द्रको MJ (Madhesi-Janajati) माइकल जैक्सन। लालु को भुराबाल, उपेन्द्र को एका।

Wednesday, December 03, 2014

थारु र मधेसी

थारु भनेको मधेसी भित्रको एउटा sub group हो, यादव जस्तो। यादवहरुले हामी त यादव हो, हामी मधेसी होइन भनेर भने जस्तो, थारुले हामी मधेसी होइन भनेको त्यस्तै हो।

थारु जनजाति पनि हो र मधेसी पनि हो। तराईका दलित दलित त हो नै तर मधेसी पनि हो। दलितहरु भित्रै पनि पहाड़ी-मधेसी हुन्छ। त्यस्तै जनजातिहरु भित्र थारुलाई मधेसी भनेर हेरिरहेका हुन्छन्। नेपालको दलित समुदाय भित्र पनि पहाड़ी-मधेसी विभेद छ। नेपालको जनजाति समुदाय भित्र पनि पहाड़ी-मधेसी विभेद छ।

मुसलमानको पनि त्यस्तै हो। हामी मधेसी होइन हामी त मुसलमान हो भन्नु घातक तर्क हो। तराईमा बसेका मुसलमान मात्रको कुरा गरेको होइन, ४-५ सय वर्ष देखि काठमाण्डु उपत्यकामा बसेका मुसलमान पनि मधेसी नै हुन। मारवाडी पनि मधेसी हुन। उपेन्द्र महतो मात्र होइन, विनोद चौधरी पनि मधेसी हो।

थारु त मधेसी भैहाले। थारु त खाँटी मधेसी हो। मधेसी पहिचान एउटा सांस्कृतिक मोर्चा जस्तो हो। छ त, यादवहरुको आफ्नो छुट्टै संस्कृति छ त।

थारु भाषा र मैथिलि भाषा उस्तै उस्तै छन। भोजपुरी र मैथिलि मिले जस्तो। त्यसको कारण ऐतिहासिक सामीप्य नै हो। जति बेला ब्रिटिशले मधेश काठमाण्डुलाई दियो त्यति बेलाको मधेशमा यिनै मानिस थिए। थारु, यादव, मैथिलि, भोजपुरी सब थिए।

मधेसी भनेको बृहत पहिचान हो। त्यस भित्र थारु र यादव दुबै पर्छन।

Monday, December 31, 2012

Who Should Lead A Unified Madhesi Party

I am not a huge fan of Gachhedar at all. The guy walks in a Kathmandu parade with a mafia don. That is hugely problematic. But he seems to have the numbers for now. And he symbolically does represent the largest ethnic group in the Terai: the Tharus. Yadavs are number two. Going by the current numbers Gachhedar seems to beat Yadav. But, forget Yadav, not even the MJF(D) and TMLP have taken concrete steps towards unification. And the SP has not taken concrete steps either. So far the three have suggested they'd rather be an alliance than a unified party. If they can forge an electoral alliance and not compete against each other, that can also be a positive move.

Chairperson: Mahantha Thakur
President: Bijay Gachhadar
Vice President: Upendra Yadav
Vice President: Rajendra Mahato
Vice President: Sharad Singh Bhandari

But the whole debate is kind of moot. Because the presidency of the party should be decided through a general convention, not through living room negotiations. A unified Madhesi party stands to reap rich dividends electorally. Let Bijay Gachhadar and Upendra Yadav compete and let there be a vote.

Would you rather be the president of a party with 20 MPs or the Vice President of a party with 50 MPs? That is the question.

The State Of Nepali Politics: A Diagram
Socialist Democratic Party: Welcome
The Implications Of The Madhesi Party Unification
Beyond The Three Parties
10 States

Gachhedar (41)
MJF(D) ---- 13
MJF(R) ---- 12
TMLP ------ 11
SP -------- 5

In power, but not part of UDMF (14)
TMLP(N) --- 10
SSP ------- 4

Yadav (27)
MJFN ------ 14
NMSP ------ 13

Friday, November 23, 2012

What Might The President Do?

English: Mr. Baburam bhattarai the 35th Prime Minister of Nepal. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I think he is gearing up to take over. That might not be bad news. In India they call it president's rule when the Governor of a state takes over. Something like that is about to happen in Nepal. The president will take over and lead a cabinet of non political people to conduct elections to a new assembly in April 2013. That is a decent roadmap.

The less controversial step would be the deadline passes and the president says the current caretaker government is now the election government. That will allow him to pass election related ordinances.

Both are good options. Direct rule by the president until April will not be dictatorial.

The deadline will come and go. And the president will step in.

Nepal President wants consensus Premier in a week

The president has given parties a deadline of November 29, 4 pm, to come up with consensus. ...... Soon after the term of the CA ended on May 27, the president had ‘relieved’ the PM of his ‘post’, on the grounds that he was no longer a member of the legislature-parliament. But the president had asked the PM to continue performing his duties till another government was constituted. ..... this was like the October 4, 2002 move of King Gyanendra when he dismissed an elected PM for failing to hold elections. “The interim constitution does not give the president any such right. He has to act on the recommendation of the Council of Ministers, which has the responsibility of finding consensus.”

Prez gives 7-day deadline for parties to find consensus PM

President Yadav had reduced Prime Minister Bhattarai, who announced fresh CA election for November 22, to a caretaker after the CA was dissolved on May 27 as per the Supreme Court verdict. The president´s move comes at a time when the opposition parties have been demanding that the president set a deadline for the parties to form a national consensus government as per the Article 38 (1). ..... the president will have to either pick an independent leader as head of a neutral election government or end the process without any result and let the present government continue ...... it will turn out to a blessing in disguise for Baburam Bhattarai.

EC demands amendment of constitution, laws for election

According to the EC, officials met President Yadav at Seetal Niwas in the evening and Prime Minister Bhattarai in the morning at his office at Singhadurbar and also requested them to fix the exact date for the voting.

The road ahead
Road to prosperity

The acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson, backed by extensive narrative of the last 600 years, writes in his brilliant book Civilization: West and the Rest, that the Western countries, prior to the threshold year 1500, were much behind the civilization of the East. Since then, particularly after renaissance and reformation, the Western civilization developed values based on individual freedom, private property, and rule of law and free trade, which led to its ascendancy over much superior regimes of the East.

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

TMDP, MPRF Unification: Huge

Yadav should be made Chairman, and Thakur should be made Ganeshman. And all these people pictured above should be made members of the politburo. I might have left a few names in haste. Please make amends.

Thakur represents the Terai's central role in Nepal's democracy movement going back decades. Upendra Yadav symbolizes the first Madhesi Kranti. Sharad Singh's bona fides are as strong as anyone's. The guy quit the powerful Defense Ministry to make a strong claim on behalf of the Madhesh. And he represents 40% of the Terai's population: the Pahadis. Gachhedar represents the Tharus, a group larger than the Yadavs, the largest among the many Madhesi groups. Tripathy, Mahato, Sarita, Anil: they are all Gajendra's disciples. They all have long histories.

After this step all Madhesi parties will be forced to join the unification bandwagon. They will do that or they will get left behind. I think it is important to bring all Madhesi parties together, even small ones like the ones led by Sarita Giri. Sarita Giri has so many benefits to harvest in such a party in a new Nepal where women will get one third reservations top to bottom.

The unified party should be called Sadbhavana Party or Janata Dal. Two words, with no mention of either Terai or Madhesh. Because this party has also to grow into the hills.

MPRF-D has no option but to fall in line.

It is not true Upendra Yadav needs to join the current government for the unification to go forward. The current government will likely make way for a caretaker government full of non political people to hold elections. So everybody is getting out. There is no point in Upendra Yadav getting in right now.

A general convention has to be held by the end of 2012. And elections are in April. This unified party will easily emerge the second largest party in the country. It just might even emerge the largest.

It is for the party convention to decide who the party president will be. It is for the parliamentary party to decide after the elections in April 2013 as to who the leader of the parliamentary party will be. Let the democratic process take its due course. Don't try to make big decisions in smoke filled rooms.

TMDP, MPRF expedite unification talks

"A unified party under leadership of Thakur will be announced in the third week of Bhadra," said a Madhesi leader on the condition of anonymity, adding, "Yadav will be powerful senior vice-chairman." ...... However, leaders from MPRF claimed that the unified party will be led by Yadav and Thakur will be given post of supreme leader of the party. ..... MPRF has proposed to name the unified party through general convention after unification. ..... some leaders of TMDP including Vice-chairman Hridayash Tripathi were not happy with the move as they have stressed the need for unification with MPRF-Democratic rather than with MPRF..... "It is not bad to hold discussion with any party for unification but there are differences between TMDP and MPRF at policy level," said TMDP Joint General Secretary Jitendra Sonal, adding, "Unification between the two parties mean either TMPD should quit the present government or MPRF should join the government which is not an easy task."