No new experiment, please!

Dr Baburam Bhattarai was the chair of the constitution drafting committee in the second constituent assembly, which had written the present constitution. Within the seven years of promulgation of the constitution, those, who were involved in writing the constitution, which was said to be written by the people for the first time in the history of Nepal, have started to express dissatisfaction. Bhattarai is of the view of a directly elected executive chief. He is against the present unholy five-party alliance. He is always complaining and indicating the backdrops of the present constitution. Many political leaders believe, the election has become expensive and those business brokers and middlemen have dominated the politics.

Until yesterday, they were blaming the king for all the anomalies, but today, there is no presence of the monarchy. After all, who was responsible for destroying the nation, it has become clear to all of us.

In Nepal like a tiny country, thinking about a directly elected executive chief of the government is more dangerous. Today, the entire USA is divided into two factions. Such a situation may appear in Nepal if we start to elect our executive chief through a direct election. More than that, the directly elected executive chief may become a dictator and he could easily go under the foreigner’s grip. Have our leaders and political observers thought about such a threat?

In the Nepali circumstance, the most appropriate and sustainable system could be a mechanism with check and balance, which could be a constitutional monarchy with Parliament elected prime minister. We don’t have other options to save the nation.