Nepal is a country so far controlled by smugglers, black marketers and other criminal gangs. Corruption is all-pervasive across the nation. Everyone has admitted this. Criminalization of politics has facilitated a ground for evil actions. Criminal gangs never want to lose the continuity of what they have been enjoying at present. They will not be very positive towards change-seeking forces. Their ultimate efforts will be to thwart the peace process and reverse the change process. But this will be just a daydream because the Nepalis at any cost will restructure their state along with necessary changes in all sectors.
As the state restructuring will mostly harm the regressive and status-quoist forces, they cannot remain without hatching some kind of conspiracies against the change process. Since they do not want to abandon their monolithic power and privileges, they calculate how to maintain the existing situation.
Many smugglers, black marketers and commission worms are extremely worried because their favorite political parties that always collaborated with them in doing underhand jobs are unlikely to get the leadership now. As the Nepalis have voted for a new leadership, those who have openly looted people are polarizing against change-seeking forces.
Besides, if the coming government overcomes the corrupt mechanisms of the country and becomes able to smoothly supply the basic necessities to the people, the smugglers, black marketers and commission worms will dry rapidly. As such anti-people forces do not want to dry, they have been making efforts to pull the country’s new leadership into their own cobwebs.
If the new leadership of Nepal fails to restructure all the vital mechanisms such as the Revenue Department, land revenue offices, airport and all other customs, courts, transport systems, communications systems and essential services sector, they are certain to fail ultimately. Only polished policies will not do in Nepal. There are many corrupt mechanisms that must be corrected as soon as possible.
Should the coming government look after people’s basics needs and control mafia-ization of every sector, it will undoubtedly enjoy the overwhelming support of the people.
Regressive forces that have just lost their power will make every effort to reverse the situation. They will try to preserve the feudal monarchy in any form possible. But the new leadership must never be loose-minded as far as the people’s mandate of federal republic is concerned.
The greatest success of Nepal’s new leadership depends on how they implement the provision of federal republic already set in the interim constitution. Certain forces within the mainstream politics seem to be engaged in conspiracies against the implementation of the provision of federal republic. Certain leaders in the mainstream politics have tried to work against the change process while they have not been able to abandon their nexus with monarchy.
Similarly, some outside forces have hinted at how they will move as their Nepal policy. In appearance, they say they respect the Nepalis’ decision. But in practice, they seek ways to prevent the new leadership from coming to power. There are reports that the CIA has been trying to mobilize several mainstream leaders by raising this or that issue. Extremist Hindu organizations of India have openly urged Nepal’s feudalist forces to raise arms against the change process. Hindu extremists have been trying to communalize Nepal’s politics so that they can benefit more through the instability in Nepal.
In such a situation, whoever are going to lead Nepal at least during the constitution-making period need to be more precautious.
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