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The Good, Bad and Ugly of Yubaraj Khatiwada Us Take Her to the Hospital WITHOUT F EAR OR FAVOUR Nepal’s largest selling English daily Vol XXVIII No. 193 | 16 pages | Rs.5 O O Printed simultaneously in Kathmandu, Biratnagar, Bharatpur and Nepalgunj 35.5 C 14.0 C Saturday, September 05, 2020 | 20-05-2077 Nepalgunj Jomsom Race begins for new finance minister as Oli bids farewell to Khatiwada There are at least six contenders for the post, but the appointment is likely to happen along with a Cabinet reshuffle, ruling party insiders say. ANIL GIRI Apart from Gautam, Bishnu Poudel, KATHMANDU, SEPT 4 Surendra Pandey, Janardan Sharma and Barsha Man Pun, who is current- Yubaraj Khatiwada resigned as ly the energy minister, are said to be finance and information and commu- the top contenders. Poudel, Pandey nication technology minister on and Pun have held the finance portfo- Friday, a day after the ruling Nepal lio in the past. Communist Party decided not to nom- Insiders say even Pradeep Gyawali, inate him, again, as a member of the the foreign minister in the Oli Cabinet, National Assembly, a prerequisite for could be one of the frontrunners to him to continue in the Oli Cabinet. lead the Finance Ministry. Another While two ministerial berths are leader said that both the ministries vacant after Khatiwada’s resignation, led by Khatiwada could be given to all eyes are now on who succeeds him Gyawali. in the Finance Ministry. If Gyawali is moved to the Finance Since another ministry is also Ministry, Narayan Kaji Shrestha, the vacant, now a Cabinet reshuffle is also spokesperson for the Nepal likely, according to a leader close to Communist Party, could be given the Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli. Foreign Ministry. “The prime minister has not indi- Shrestha was appointed a National cated anything regarding Khatiwada’s Assembly member back in January. replacement yet,” the leader told the Both Shrestha and Gautam had lost Post. the 2017 parliamentary elections from Khatiwada had to resign after the Gorkha and Bardiya, respectively. ruling party decided to nominate its “It’s up to the party; I have not yet vice-chair to the National Assembly. staked claim to any ministerial berth. There is only one seat vacant in the Nor have I expressed my desire to POST PHOTO: HEMANTA SHRESTHA National Assembly. become a minister before any party Patan Durbar Square wears a deserted look on Friday as the Lalitpur District Administration Office clamped a curfew in Lalitpur after Gautam himself has made committees,” Shrestha told the Post. Thursday’s clashes that erupted in Pulchowk when police intervened as locals pulled the chariot of Rato Machhindranath defying the public his ambitions to become a Insiders, however, say after the Covid-19 prohibitory orders. minister, but it is not clear if Oli party went through a tough time in will let him lead the Finance recent months–at one point reaching Ministry. on the verge of a split–as part of a Oli later on Friday approved larger power-sharing deal both Khaitwada’s resignation and Shrestha and Gautam could be decided to keep both the finance appointed ministers. and communication and infor- The party was until a few months The good, bad and ugly of mation portfolios with him. ago vertically divided between fac- At least half a dozen names tions led by Oli and the other chair, are currently making rounds for Pushpa Kamal Dahal. Yubaraj Khatiwada the Finance Ministry. >> Continued on page 2 At the time of appointment, the technocrat brought with him the expertise to take the economy forward. But as he signed off, many say he just had a run-of-the-mill tenure. PRITHVI MAN SHRESTHA Khaitwada, therefore, could never KATHMANDU, SEPT 4 earn the trust of the private sector, Nepal said. Despite his desire to continue Yubaraj “He faces charges of not being Khaitwada as the finance minister, accommodative, as any other finance Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, under minister with a political background pressure amid the fluid internal dynam- could have been,” said Nepal. ics in his Nepal Communist Party, had In the initial days of Khatiwada’s to bid farewell to the technocrat. appointment as the finance minister, Oli had handed over one of the key there certainly were high hopes all ministries to Khatiwada on February around, as he is known as a person 26, 2018, in a move that earned praises well-versed on economy, finance and for him, for the technocrat minister development issues, according to busi- had an illustrious background–he nesspersons and economists. His past holds a PhD in monetary economics, POST FILE PHOTO experience as governor and vice-chair he served twice in the National Yubaraj Khaitwada of the planning commission meant he Planning Commission as vice-chair knew the sources of ills that mired the and once as governor of the Nepal received a significant amount of for- country’s economy in stagnation. Rastra Bank. eign aid. There can be a debate wheth- However, the first criticism he faced Khatiwada was believed to be Oli’s er foreign aid is good or bad, but he was when he brought the white paper charioteer–who could drive the gov- managed to get it,” Nepal told the on Nepal’s economy, even when the ernment’s “prosperous Nepal, happy Post. “He was also able to generate fiscal budget was just round the cor- Nepali” campaign in the right direc- enough resources for under-construc- ner. While painting a bleak picture of tion. tion projects.” the country’s economy, he blamed the Economist Govinda Nepal, a former According to Nepal, he should also past governments for the fiascos. member of National Planning be lauded for his effort to control tax But he himself failed to do anything Commission, said Khatiwada’s perfor- evasion by introducing a policy of substantial to give an impetus to the mance as the finance minister was recognising only those transaction economy, according to a former admin- neither great nor poor. details submitted to the tax authority istrator who did not want to be named. “During his tenure, the government while applying for bank loans. >> Continued on page 2 How politicians’ chopper rides to disaster-hit areas flies in the face of spirit of federalism Leaders and ministers’ penchant for flying to different parts of the country in the name of rescue and relief is reminiscent of the days when the country was under a unitary system. ior Nepal Communist Party leader Bhim Rawal, visited Sainibazaar of Achham district to distribute relief materials to flood-hit locals. Thapa and Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota also flew to Sindhupalchok when landslides hit the Lidi village last month. According to a report in Kantipur, the Post’s sister paper, Thapa and Sapkota over the last three weeks have visited various districts “to inspect” flood- and landslide-hit areas and to distribute relief. The Kantipur report suggests around Rs3.5 million has been spent from the state coffers for chartering the Army’s MI-17 helicopter. POST COURTESY: BINU BC What is more concerning than the Lankuribot village in Baglung is left ravaged by Wednesday’s flood. Ministers and leaders from money spent on such inspection visits Kathmandu often reach flood- and landslide-hit areas in the name of relief distribution. is politicians in Kathmandu are contin- uing the practice that was prevalent in ANIL GIRI boarded a Nepali Army chopper to the Panchayat days, analysts say. Even KATHMANDU, SEPT 4 visit a flood-hit area in Baglung. Bad after practicing multi-party democra- weather, however, prevented Thapa cy for decades and then the federal On Thursday, an image of Home from reaching the flood-hit area in democratic system for the last three Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa was Baglung. years, the mindset of the politicians widely circulated on social media. The Earlier in the third week of August, has not changed yet according to them. image was taken moments before he Home Minister Thapa, along with sen- >> Continued on page 2 C M Y K SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 05, 2020 | 02 NATIONAL Coronavirus patients in home isolation complain of being neglected by authorities Health workers have not reached out to every patient in home isolation for lack of manpower and resources, say local authorities. AMRITA ANMOL & SANJU PAUDEL RUPANDEHI, SEPT 4 A 68-year-old woman from Tilottama Municipality Ward No. 5 in Rupandehi had tested positive for Covid-19 in the third week of August. A patient of diabetes and high blood pressure, she had been staying in home isolation despite her doctor suggesting she be placed in a hospital, as there were no beds available at the corona-specific hospital in Butwal. She died on Sunday, while on her way to Bhim Hospital in Bhairahawa. “We didn’t have a choice but to keep her at home despite her doctor sug- gesting otherwise. The municipality POST PHOTO: DEEPAK KC did not help us secure a bed in the A worker wearing a mask pushes a wheel barrow in Sinamangal, Kathmandu, on Friday. Despite prohibitory orders in place in Kathmandu Valley, isolation facility at the corona-specific authorities have eased the restrictions for construction works. hospital in Butwal,” said Ram Bahadur Gurung, one of the family members of the deceased. “On Sunday, her health condition worsened and we again asked the municipality to help The good, bad and ugly of Yubaraj Khatiwada us take her to the hospital. But they POST PHOTO: SANJU PAUDEL said all ICU beds in the hospital were The number of patients staying in home isolation has increased in Province 5, as the existing >> Continued from page 1 aid, which are needed the most in the good progress in revenue and expend- taken.” hospitals in the province are already filled to their capacity.
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