Tuesday, April 03, 2007

ज्वाला, गोइत, टाइगर और कोबराको चुनाव क्यों लडना चािहए


गणतान्त्िरक तराई मुक्ित मोर्चा के दो फ्याक्सन हैं, ज्वाला और गोइत। एक हैं मधेशी टाइगर्स। और एक हैं तराई कोबरा। मेरे जानकारीमें तराईके पक्षमें बन्दूक उठाए हुए यही चार समूह हैं। अगर नेपालमें मधेशी दुसरे तीसरे दर्जेके नागिरक, गैर नागिरक न होते तो िजस तरह माअोवादीयोंके साथ वार्ता की गइ, िजस तरह माअोवादी सेनाको क्यान्टोनमेन्टमें रखा गया उसी तरह इन चार मधेसी समूहोके साथ भी शान्ित वार्ता होती। िहंसात्मक संघर्षकी बात छोिडए, २१ िदन तक जो अिहंसात्मक मधेशी क्रान्ित चली, ३८ शहीद हुए, उस तकको पहाडी सत्ताधारीयोने अपमान िकया है। नैितकताके अाधार पर गृह मन्त्रीनें राजीनामा नहीं िदया। ३८ शहीदोंको शहीद घोषणा नहीं िकया गया अभी तक।

ये पहाडी सत्ताधारी मधेशीको अादमी नहीं िगन्ते हैं, समझते हैं कीडामकौरा हैं। उसी यथार्थके िवरूद्ध सद्भावना (अानन्दी) के तरह कुछ मधेशी सत्तामें गए हुए हैं। कुछ मधेशी जनािधकार फोरमके तरह अिहंसात्मक क्रान्ित छेड िदए। कुछनें बन्दूक उठा िलया। रास्ता फरक फरक है लेिकन गन्तव्य तो एक ही है और वो है मधेशी समानता, मधेशीको बराबरका हक िहत िदलाना।

बन्दूक उठाए चार समूह अपने तरह से लड रहे हैं। मधेशी जनािधकार फोरमका अपना लाइन है। सद्भावना (अानन्दी)का अलग लाइन है। पहाडी पार्टीयोंमे जो मधेशी हैं उनका अलग लाइन है। सत्ताधारी अाठ पार्टीके मधेशीयोने िनर्णय कर िलया है िक चुनाव लडना है। राजेन्द्र महतोके शब्दमें संिवधान सभाको "महासंग्राम" माना जा रहा है। वो कोइ गलत लाइन नहीं है।

मधेशी जनािधकार फोरम अौर उपेन्द्र यादवजी गृह मन्त्रीके राजीनामा के अडान पर डटे हैं। उनकी िहम्मतको मैं दाद देता हुँ। मैं न्यु यर्कमें बैठा हुँ। मधेशकी िनर्णय मुझे नहीं करनी है। अिहंसाके दायरामें रहके मधेशी जनािधकार फोरम मधेशी अिधकारके िलए जो भी करे उस प्रित मेरी नैितक समर्थन रहेगी। मैने तो सोंचा था िगिरजा नए सरकारमें िसटौलाको बाइबाइ बोलेगा। लेिकन वैसा नहीं हुवा। िगिरजाका राजनीितक धर्म है बाहुनवाद। वो पहाडी है। अपना धर्म िनभा रहा है। नयी सरकारमें भी िसटौलाको ही गृह मन्त्री पद पर रखके िगिरजाने मधेशी समुदायका घोर अपमान िकया है।

राजतन्त्रके िवरूद्ध लडने के िलए सब पहाडी एक हो गए थे। सात पार्टी अौर माअोवादी एक हो गए थे। पहाडीतन्त्रके िवरूद्ध लडने के िलए सभी मधेशी समूहोंको एक हो जानी परेगी। सद्भावना (अानन्दी), सद्भावना, मधेशी जनािधकार फोरम, गणतान्त्िरक तराई मुक्ित मोर्चा-ज्वाला, गणतान्त्िरक तराई मुक्ित मोर्चा-गोइत, मधेशी टाइगर्स, तराई कोबरा। सबको िमल कर एक मधेशी अलायन्स बनानी होगी। सद्भावना (अानन्दी), सद्भावना, मधेशी जनािधकार फोरम एक तरफ रहेंगे। गणतान्त्िरक तराई मुक्ित मोर्चा-ज्वाला, गणतान्त्िरक तराई मुक्ित मोर्चा-गोइत, मधेशी टाइगर्स, तराई कोबरा दुसरी तरफ। एक समझदारी हो। गणतान्त्िरक तराई मुक्ित मोर्चा-ज्वाला, गणतान्त्िरक तराई मुक्ित मोर्चा-गोइत, मधेशी टाइगर्स, तराई कोबरा बन्दुक अभी नहीं त्यागेंगे। लेिकन बन्दुक चलाएंगे भी नहीं।

अभी तो अजीब स्िथित है। सद्भावना (अानन्दी) का सद्भावनासे गप्प नहीं होता है। सद्भावना (अानन्दी) का मधेशी जनािधकार फोरमसे गप्प नहीं होता है। उन तीनोंका िहंसात्मक समूहोंसे गप्प नहीं होता है। चार जो िहंसात्मक समूह हैं उनका एक दुसरेसे गप्प नहीं होता है। अगर हम सभीका लक्ष्य एक है तो हम एक दुसरेसे गप्प क्यों नहीं कर सकते हैं?

मधेशी अलायन्स अगर गठन होती है तो उसके पास दो रास्ता है। या तो संिवधान सभाके चुनावके दौरान एक हप्ता नेपाल बन्द करके चुनावको िबथोल्ना, या तो चुनावको "महासंग्राम" के रूपमें स्वीकार करना। मेरा प्रस्ताव है िक संिवधान सभाके चुनावको महासंग्रामके रूपमें स्वीकार िकया जाए। बल्िक एक मधेशी अलायन्स गठन हो अौर चुनावमें हम मधेशी तराईमें स्वीप करें।

अायरल्याण्डमें िसन फेन सेना भी रखती थी अौर राजनीितक पार्टी भी। गणतान्त्िरक तराई मुक्ित मोर्चा-ज्वाला, गणतान्त्िरक तराई मुक्ित मोर्चा-गोइत, मधेशी टाइगर्स, तराई कोबरा को मेरा सुझाव है िक अाप लोग भी वैसा ही करें। अपना अपना राजनीितक पार्टी खोेलें अौर चुनावमें होम जाएँ। मधेशी अलायन्स तराईमें स्वीप करेगी अौर सरकार बनाएगी, वो सरकार अापसे अादरपूर्वक बात करेगी, तब अाप बन्दूकको पूर्णा रूपसे िवस्राम देंगे। अभी लेिकन बम अौर बन्दूकको चुप रिखए।

मधेशी अलायन्स अगर बनती है तो उसे एक कमन िमनीमम प्रोग्रामकी अावश्यकता परेगी। हमारा प्रमुख मुद्दा तो है मधेश राज्यका स्थापना। उस पर भी कइ तरहकी बाते हैं। सद्भावना (अानन्दी) कहती है पुर्वी तराई, पश्िचमी तराई करके दो राज्य हो। मधेशी जनािधकार फोरम अौर गणतान्त्िरक तराई मुक्ित मोर्चा-गोइत पुरे तराईको एक राज्यके रूपमें देखना चाहती है। मधेशी टाइगर्स, तराई कोबराको भी शायद वही चािहए। गणतान्त्िरक तराई मुक्ित मोर्चा-ज्वाला तराईमें चार राज्य चाहती है: थारूवान, अवध, भोजपुर, िमिथला। मातृका यादवको दो राज्य चािहए, थारूवान अौर मधेश। अन्ितम िनर्णय लेिकन जनता करेगी।

मधेशी अान्दोलनके क्रममें मैं देख रहा हुँ अभी सबसे महत्वपूर्ण बात है मधेशी जनािधकार फोरमका एक राजनीितक पार्टी बन जाना। तब तो मधेशी अलायन्स ठोस रूपसे न बने तो भी कोइ बेफायदा नहीं है। गणतान्त्िरक तराई मुक्ित मोर्चा-ज्वाला, गणतान्त्िरक तराई मुक्ित मोर्चा-गोइत, मधेशी टाइगर्स, तराई कोबरा बन्दूक न छोडे, िसर्फ अपनी अपनी राजनीितक फ्रन्ट खडा करके चुनाव लडे तो भी ठीक है। थोडा बहुत चुनावी तालमेल हो सीटोंके िलए। अाधा जो समानुपाितक िनर्वाचनकी बात है, उसके िलए तो वैसी तालमेलकी भी जरूरत नहीं है।

मधेशी अान्दोलनके इस मोड पर अाके मधेशी जनािधकार फोरमका धर्म बनता है िक खुदको एक राजनीितक पार्टी बना लें अौर नारा दे िक िजन िजन चुनावी क्षेत्रोमें मधेशी बहुमतमें हैं उनसे िसर्फ मधेशीयोको ही िजताया जाए। मधेशसे पहाडी नेताअोंका पत्ता साफ करो। िगिरजाको हराअो। िसटौलाको हराअो। अब हम लोग राजीनामाकी भीख माङना छोड दें अौर उनको चुनावमें हरानेकी बात करें। जो जनता सडक पर उतरके क्रान्ित कर सकती है, शहीद हो सकती है वो जनता भोट भी तो दे सकती है।


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  2. Girija Ko Kursi Se Hata Do, Ceremonial Bana Do (Poem) (February 24, 2007) (Words)
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  4. Chunawi Jung (Poem) (February 18, 2007) (Words)
  5. Bijay Ki Sugandh Aa Rahi Hai (Poem) (February 7, 2007) (Words)
  6. Maghe Kranti (Poem) (February 4, 2007) (Words)
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रतन झा: मधेसी व्रि्रोह ः चुनौती र अवसर
पुरे देशको प्यारालाइज कर दो
माअोवादी तानाशाही मुर्दाबाद
िगिरजाको कुर्सी से हटा दो, सेरेमोिनयल बना दो
अगर सडक पर िफर से उतडनी पडी तो
चुनावी जंग
िवजयकी सुगन्ध अा रही है
समानता अौर अिधकार पर्याप्त नहीं हैं, हमें तो शक्ित चािहए
माघे क्रान्ित
सत्ताधारी सात पहाडी पार्टीको घैंटोमा अझै घाम लागेको छैन
सरिता गिरी: अशान्त मधेस, नया नेपाल
माघे क्रान्ित, राजावादी र िहन्दु कट्टरपन्थीबारे
डटे रहो
शान्ित वार्ता क्या, िवजय घोषणा करो
बराबर जनसंख्याबाला २०५ सीट
मधेश जल रही है
िफर से कह दो एक बार इन्िकलाब
पहाडी मधेशी दंगा, मधेशी जनजाित गठबंधन, र िनर्णायक, अिहंसात्मक अन्ितम अान्दोलनको खाँचो
सद्भावना रोडम्याप
नेपालमा दमजम अान्दोलनको अावश्यकता
नेपालमा संसारको नम्बर एक लोकतन्त्रको स्थापना हुन सक्छ
राजतन्त्र, बाहुनवाद र भर्ष्टाचार समाप्त पारौं
राजतन्त्र, बाहुनवाद र भर्ष्टाचार समाप्त पारौं


Thursday, March 29, 2007

New York Metro Nepalis: Organizational Challenges




ANONYM Audio 4 03/31/07
ANONYM Audio 3 03/31/07

As we head towards our May 12 meeting at Yak, I see a few options before us.

(1) The Tara Niraula Option. His organization the America Nepal Friendship Society calls up meetings, and he runs them, once every six months.

(2) The Khagendra GC Option. This is now in play. There is a Coordination Committee. And there is a rotating leadership. So if organization A ran the meeting this time, after all other organizations have done the same, it will be organization A's turn all over again, which will be in about15 years, considering there are about 30 organizations, and we are scheduled to meet once every six months.

(3) The Luna Ranjit Option. Meet more often, maybe once every three months. And have collective leadership. To be honest, I don't know what that means. What is collective leadership? It can mean wonderful cooperation, but then it can also mean everybody's business is nobody's business.

(4) The Anand Bist Option. There is no need for a Coordination Committee. There is definitely no need for an umbrella organization. "Organization haroo ko pani organization kahin hunchha? Kahin na sunya kura."

(5) The Paramendra Bhagat Option. Form an umbrella organization. ANONYM: Association Of Nepali Organizations In New York Metro.

Of course I will go with the democratic choice of the majority. And right now looks like it is going to be the Khagendra GC Option. But I do stand by my proposal. And I would like to continue to make a case for it.

My proposal is to:
  1. Make all the existing organizations much more accountable to their individual members. You do that by injecting democracy and transparency into them. All members will be listed online. All bookkeeping will be online. All voting will be open. Minutes of all meetings will be posted online.
  2. You form the umbrella organization and break it up from the rest of the diaspora. That way ANONYM goes head to head with NAC and NRNA. NAC and NRNA are too elitist and opaque. NRNA is more like a Chamber Of Commerce.
  3. This break comes to an end after NAC and NRNA have adopted democracy and transparency as their basic principles. Then we stitch it back up.
  4. Build The Matrix so as to rope in other New Yorkers as well. That way we Nepalis form the nucleus of an emerging movement in the city. We help export the April Revolution into countries like Bhutan, Burma, Bangladesh and Zimbabwe.
  5. We use The Matrix to earn voting rights for us in the city.
  6. The flagship of the ANONYM will be Nepali Convention 2008, NYC.
Why is there resistance to my proposal?
  1. Very few Nepalis are organized, period. Less than 100 Nepalis in the city are active members of one or the other organization. People feel they are too busy making money. They don't have time. They feel there is no need. They feel they are being realistic. The most powerless are the ones who need to get organized the most. It is a chicken egg situation. The Nepali are powerless because they are not organized. They are not organized because they are powerless.
  2. Members of the various organizations are apathetic. They are not engaged. They are not involved much.
  3. Leaders do not practice democracy and transparency. And so they fail to empower their members.
  4. Organizing Nepalis in the city has never been a mass based concept. What I am proposing is a mass based thing. The thinking so far has been if you know these 10-20 people, you know everyone you need to know.
  5. There is this Nepal fixation. People don't talk about their utter powerlessness in the city. We are busy talking up the ethnic politics in Nepal. We have to talk up both.
  6. There is fear if ANONYM is formed, I might become its president. Symbolically speaking, that makes some people queasy. I am a Madhesi.
  7. There are a lot of Nepalis who feel they have finally seen my "true face" after the Madhesi Movement. They don't like what they see. I am not going to hide anything. I am wedded to the idea of a Madhesh state, Rapti to Mechi. And we will get it through the ballot box. If you believe in democracy and federalism, but you don't like my map, you have the option to try and sell that alternate map to the Madhesi people.
But primarily it is lack of political consciousness in the community. Lack of time, lack of money are secondary reasons. There is lack of money because powerless communities by defintion will be poor.

The Nepalis in New York City as dwellers of the capital city of the world are well positioned to provide leadership to the entire Nepali diaspora across the world. Nepalis are powerless across the world. If we can get them organized on a mass scale through the basic principles of democracy and transparency, we will realize this is but the natural next step to the wonderful April Revolution itself.

For me it is like this. The April Revolution made the Madhesi Movement possible. Both should make the Diaspora Movement possible.

But right now I am not hopeful that the ANONYM proposal will be adopted. My best bet is to go beyond the leadership and to the people. But that will be a tough nut to crack.

Another option is to take my focus away to my private endeavor which is the single best thing we can do for the Global South, the IC.

My new signature that goes out with all my emails is this.

http://ic101.blogspot.com
http://bhagatversion.blogspot.com

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Nepali Convention 2008, NYC (Put On Hold, Likely Not Happening Due To Rejection Of ANONYM Proposal)
ANONYM Audio 2 03/24/07
ANONYM Audio 03/21/07
Invest 03/19/07
Audio Message 03/03/07
ANONYM: Association Of Nepali Organizations In New York Metro




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