Home Minister: Bamdev Gautam (April 21, 2006)
It is very important to get Krishna Sitaula out of the Home Ministry. And it is not at all fair for Koirala to claim the PM and DPM positions as well as the three key ministries of Defense, Home and Finance for the Congress. The Congress does not have that many MPs in the interim parliament.
PM, fine, let that be Koirala.
But the UML needs to continue to get the DPM slot. It is wrong for Koirala to suggest he will give a DPM slot to the UML if Oli gets to continue as DPM. It is not for Koirala to decide who the UML makes its DPM candidate. Koirala seems to be wary a strong personality like Bamdev Gautam might show up.
Just like there was no provision whatsoever in the 1990 constitution for the king to become Chairperson of the Council of Ministers, the idea of a Senior Deputy Prime Minister is ridiculous. For one, the title is so long it sounds like the title of some monarch. I thought we were trying to get rid of the monarchy.
Amik Sherchan out, Krishna Mahara in. Let the guy be the second DPM.
There is great danger in creating a Senior Deputy Prime Minister position. Should a Maoist hold that seat, and should something happen to Koirala - say one morning he does not wake up at all - then you are looking at a Maoist Prime Minister for the country, however temporary that might be. Maoist misbehavior on the ground is alarming. That can not be allowed to happen.
If Koirala likes Krishna Sitaula so much, let him have him as Defense Minister, although I feel Krishna Sitaula is singularly disqualified for that particular ministry. The guy lacks basic spine. His ways are too appeasing.
I like the idea of the UML wanting to bring in a new team on its part into the government.
Bamdev Gautam has spine. He will be a much better Home Minister than Krishna Sitaula has been. He will be much less likely to get bullied around by the Maoists.
But the weirdest part is how the eight parties are acting like the Madhesi-Janajati-Dalit Movement is over, that they have managed to brush it aside. The insensitivity on their part is so overwhelming.
Girija's style is to be as little accomodative as possible. He wants to take no prisoners. He is not a consensus seeker like Bill Clinton. He just does not have the smarts, the energy. When organized groups make demands, they speak for the people. Someone of democratic charater would want to respond. But Girija does not. He wants to snuff it out, he wants to disrespect it. He totally has disrespected a major mass movement, and so the seeds of discontent have been sown all over the Terai.
I hope the MJF and NEFIN look into all options and go for one final push, or go for the electoral option with gusto. In a democracy, you go to the people. I guess what these groups are saying is we are not big like the political parties, but our grievances are genuine. They both have wanted to be a civil rights movement rather than political parties. Circumstances might lead them to change that mindset. It will be sweet to watch the Congress getting decimated at the pollig booths across the Madhesh.
A skillful politician with a democratic bent would have wanted to use the opportunity for a new government as a way to meet the Madhesi Movement's key demand of the Home Minister's removal, but Girija is not giving ground. With that attitude, his party will hold ground for a while, and then the ground will shift beneath its feet. The downslide will be swift. In a democracy people catch up with you fast.
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