Self-reliance for democratic reform in Nepal

There are signs that our security forces have the professional wherewithal to liberate Nepal's democracy from the stranglehold of the brazenly corrupt

Ever since the restoration of multiparty dispensation in 1990, Nepal has been reeling under the mounting corruption of our political parties, so much so that a little over three decades down the road, just about every single politician is a corrupt man or woman in Nepal today.

The agonizing part of the story for a democratically aspiring people of the country is that these corrupt politicians could not care less about popular concern over their brazen corruption.

NC's corruption story: For instance, the presumable GOP of Nepal, the Nepali Congress party convened one of their Mahasamiti meetings in Kathmandu in the recent past, which was participated by over a thousand delegates from all across the country.

Just at that time, its senior leader, Bal Krishna Khand, was released on bail after spending some seven months in judicial custody for accepting bribes from fake Bhutanese scammers. Everybody in that jamboree noticed the jailed Khand meekly seated in a corner.

The assembly was also aware of the media reporting then that jailed Khand's wife and lawmaker Manju Khand and party president SB Deuba's wife and lawmaker ArzuRana too stand implicated for accepting six crores and one and a half crores of that scam money, respectively, and were eligible for imminent arrest too, except for the kindness showered by PM Prachanda and his anti-corruption big mouth home minister Narayan Kazi Shrestha, who had transferred the investigating police officers, SSP Dr Manoj KC, SSP Daan Bahadur Karki, and AIG Shyam Gyawali to save them from arrest.

The tragedy for Nepal is that this NC party-that once under BP Koirala was at the forefront of social democratic movement internationally--has now degenerated into a mafia-like organization in which every single member is a corrupt man or woman. The big Mahasmiti meeting chose to completely ignore the elephant in the room--party corruption. Every single participant in that massive gathering felt great unease by Khand's presence in the meeting, being unsure of how to react to him personally, a corrupt and jailed senior leader. This sense of ambivalence on their part only went on to reinforce the general impression that NC today is nothing more than the coming together of like-minded corrupt thugs almost in its entirety.

As if that was not enough already for the Nepalese, a few weeks later, a whole phalanx of NC party stalwarts, Deuba included, flew down to Dang Valley to unveil the statue of the late Khum Bahadur Khadka, who, a decade and a half ago, was convicted of corruption and jailed for more than a year.

The strangest thing of all has been that there are members who want to unseat