There should be a deep change in the policies and politics of the country. The Country has withered away. The country will not easily be able to shake off the incubus of economic, political and administrative paralysis that has become almost an endemic condition, which is both a cause and symptom of constitutional dilemma it faces. After twelve years of misrule of Nepali Congress, Nepal has almost become a synonym for lawlessness, corruption, murder and chaos-a tragic fall from grace a country that once had been a place of peace, tranquility, beauty and civilization. Sound and silence, silence and sound. This is a story of lives pulled together and pushed apart by what happens in (and between) our ears.

People began to look at the darkness instead. This led them toward the use of illusion. Murderer! Assassin! The mournerners shouted. But no body cares. Humanity is gone. Often poor people had to run pursued by insults and stone. A photographer shoots. But camera's respect has nothing to do with seriousness, sanctimony, and privacy. Perhaps honesty is the best policy in the politics of Nepal.

In Nepal these politicians are destroying everything of our precious things saying they are all the old things. They demonstrate inexhaustible energy in directionless debate resulting in even good ideas getting diluted, running out of time, money and enthusiasm, with nothing preserved for prosperity. They seem to forget that they do not inherit this world from their father. They borrow it from their children. Let them understand that we, the people of Nepal, pride our self on our 5000 years' heritage and we pride our self for the leadership of our Monarchy. A nation develops when it preserves its heritage, a sense of national pride and fostering national integration in its true sense.

In our country a debate is an end itself. A seminar or conference is regarded as an activity rather than a means of reaching shared ownership to deliver measurable results. The disbursement of funds is often used as a key measure of success. Our performance must come up to critical scrutiny and appraisal.

No government during the last thirteen years has been able to tackle the problem of hunger. Today Nepal has become the home of the hungry people from our Southern neighbour while our hard working youths have been sent to South Asia and Gulf countries to sell their bodies.

Over thirteen years have passed since Nepal was devastated by the death-dealing squall of hate, looting, killing that traumatised the nation. In 1990 the general election had been used by pumping in a huge amount of money by the agents of expansionist power to endorse tyranny and corruption to loot the resources of the country, both in men and material. The shock wave of 1990's Chaksibari meet still exists even today.

Now they have removed their mask, and now people have seen what they really are. In this quaking, unreliable time how we can build our nation - morally speaking - after shifting Nepal's sands. The country is reeling under the threat of extortion, kidnapping and murder by political criminal gangs. The government has failed to check the rising crime graph.

During twelve years rule of Nepali Congress, people of Nepal were excluded from power. For them the government's oppression was too intolerable to be borne. They modified the principle of good-governance that killed the golden goose that has generated so much wealth and created job opportunities. They underestimate our fellow humans- the son of soil - because they underestimate Nepal. The people of Nepal are capable of being much more than they see. Many of our people are able to answer country's darkest questions. The sons of the soil just do not know if they can come up with the answers to the riddles until they are asked. And no one can ask them except their beloved Monarch whom they worshipped every morning and evening before taking their meals. Naturally it is in the crown that the mysticism of Nepali polity is concentrated and this will come out in the end.

"Politics is vulgar unless it is liberalized by history; and a state which failed to see itself as a mosaic of ancestral institutions would build its novelties upon foundations of sand," Seelay.

Authentic peace can be founded ultimately only on justice, trust and dignity. These so called politicians are a breed of sycophants. They are worshippers of people of foreign power. They lack moral courage to say that their foreign emperor has no clothes. The government has followed a disastrous economic policy taxing the poor people to finance the corrupt politicians in the name of saving the democracy.

What is the recipe of economic progress? It is not the messy democracy. Unless you take tough economic decisions the country cannot develop. Nepal's messy democracy leaves little room for reforms. The people of Nepal are sending a clear message to the political class: they must rebuild the trust of ordinary people.

There were differences in means, not ends. Each set of strategies has its strengths and liabilities. Each is useful in a given situation, but each can be catastrophic if overused or used inappropriately.

Let us not forget that any challenge to the institution of Monarchy in Nepal is a challenge to the sovereignty of the country. Today, Nepal faces an existential threat to our security.

The need of the hour is to restore value-based politics. These political parties which are running the government are incapable of appreciating the country's diversity. It is for us to build a better, more prosperous future for out people in which progress is fortified by peace.

RAW's activities has stepped up in Nepal. This is the time to take tough decisions to save the sovereignty of the country. To save our sovereignty and national integrity the culture of tough power has significantly increased. Now the country needs real men and their supporters.

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BY K.P PANDEY
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The author is the former ambassador to Thailand
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