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Darchula Incident Makes a Diplomatic Test Case with India for Deuba WI THOUT F EAR O R F A V O U R Nepal’s largest selling English daily Vol XXIX No. 196 | 8 pages | Rs.5 O O Printed simultaneously in Kathmandu, Biratnagar, Bharatpur and Nepalgunj 35.2 C 12.5 C Thursday, September 02, 2021 | 17-05-2078 Nepalgunj Jomsom Darchula incident makes a diplomatic test case with India for Deuba Government has yet to make any position on Jaya Singh Dhami’s disappearance in Mahakali river, despite a probe committee submitting its report. ANIL GIRI that the government should take up KATHMANDU, SEPT 1 the issue with New Delhi without any delay through diplomatic channels, The Darchula incident in which a should share the report with India and youth fell into Mahakali river has make attempts to find a way not to let become the first diplomatic test case such incidents repeat again. for Prime Minister Sher Bahadur “Whatever the findings suggest, we Deuba, who returned to power on July should not delay in taking the issue up 13 for the fifth time. with the Indian side through diplo- On July 30, Jaya Singh Dhami, 33, matic channels,” said Prakash Sharan from Khangdang Mal of Byas Rural Mahat, joint general secretary of the Municipality-2 in Darchula fell into Nepali Congress and former foreign Mahakali while crossing the river minister. “It is also better for India to using an improvised cable crossing, admit the mistake so that we can locally known as tuin. resolve such things for once and all.” It took a government probe team a The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has whole month to submit its report. The to take the matter up with India. details are yet to be made public. Earlier, it was waiting for the probe “It appears that the incident hap- team to submit the report. Now it is pened in the presence of Indian waiting for the Home Ministry to com- Sashastra Seema Bal,” the Home municate with it regarding the report. POST PHOTO: ELITE JOSHI Ministry said in a statement, cit- “We are going to write to the Children attend in-person class after nearly 18 months at a school in Gokarneshwar Municipality, Kathmandu on Wednesday. (Report on Pg 3) ing the probe report. “So the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the report has recommended that basis of the report submitted by the the government take diplomatic probe team,” said Phanindra Mani initiatives to bring the perpetra- Pokharel, spokesperson for the Home tors to book.” Ministry. The Deuba government has Jaya Singh’s disappearance in the INSIDE Nepal’s ‘socialist’ parties already received a lot of flak for raging waters while he was on his way failing to make the state’s posi- to the district headquarters to catch a tion clear on an incident in bus to Kathmandu has exposed Biratnagar to build integrated Ordinary people rarely care about complicated political which a countryman lost his life. long-standing problems the people on settlement for landless Dalits Former foreign ministers, the margins face. party leaders and experts say >> Continued on page 2 MORANG: Biratnagar Metropolitan philosophies, say analysts, stressing that politicians City, with the financial assistance from various social organisations and should focus on delivery, not jargon. lawmakers, has initiated the con- struction of an integrated settlement for 145 squatter families from the Dalit community. “The construction of the integrated settlement kicked off with the financial support of Province 1 assembly member Kedar Karki, Biratnagar Metropolis, Habitat for Nepal, Sahara Nepal and some other social organisations in Birat- nagar-12,” said Indira Karki, deputy mayor of Biratnagar. The landless families, who had been staying in roadside huts in Biratnagar-12 for years, around six months ago had taken a loan from a financial institution to purchase three bighas and 16 katthas of land for the construction of the integrated settlement. (Details on Pg 2) POST FILE PHOTO Kin of persons disappeared Madhav Nepal, a former CPN-UML leader, announces his new party CPN (Unified Socialist) during insurgency start filing at a press meet in Kathmandu on August 26. criminal cases with police BINOD GHIMIRE their ideologies.” KATHMANDU, SEPT 1 KATHMANDU: Frustrated by the delay According to Prasain, over the in transitional justice process, fami- years, the governments regardless of lies of some individuals who were “Nepal is an independent, indivisible, who led, either those calling them- disappeared by the Maoist rebels and sovereign, secular, inclusive, demo- selves socialists or communists, have the state security forces during the cratic, socialism-oriented, federal only favoured a certain section of decade-long insurgency have started democratic republican state,” the business people, promoting oligarchy, filing criminal cases with the police Constitution of Nepal proclaims. nepotism and favouritism. Families of around two dozen disap- When the Constituent Assembly For the people from the grassroots, peared victims from eight districts adopted the constitution in September the party ideologies do not really mat- have so far visited their district 2015, Nepal’s major political parties ter. police offices to file complaints were on the same page on including Tika Ram Shrestha, 40, is an electri- against the alleged abductors. the phrase “socialism-oriented” to cian. However, not a single complaint has define Nepal’s goals. Originally from Ramechhap, been registered yet, as the police have Socialism, however, has been talked Shrestha came to Kathmandu in either sought time to study the about in Nepal for many years now. search of work. complaints or have refused to The country’s grand old party, the “The only thing I expect from parties entertain them saying they do not fall Nepali Congress, says its motto is: or governments is that they should under their jurisdiction. The democracy, socialism, nationalism. work in the larger interest of the peo- Advocacy Forum and International The term “socialism” now has once ple, especially the poor,” said Shrestha. Commission of Jurists have been again become a topic of public debate, For Shrestha, socialism is what he supporting the families to register especially after Madhav Kumar Nepal, has heard in the news. a long-time communist leader, regis- “I have no idea what it means,” he the complaints. (Details on Pg 3) tered his party, CPN (Unified Socialist) said. “But from my experience, I can last week, severing his five-decade-old say that political parties in Nepal have Nepal starts preparations for ties with the CPN-UML, a communist failed the people. I don’t have much force that he led for 15 years in the hope from them.” ICAO’s aviation safety audit past. The same day, Mahantha Thakur, Even though the unitary Panchayat KATHMANDU: The International Civil previously an old Nepali Congress regime was toppled more than 30 Aviation Organisation is expected to hand, registered his party–the years ago, Nepal’s parliamentary conduct a full safety audit of Nepal’s Loktantrik Samajbadi Party, or the democracy has yet to become strong. aviation sector next April. The last Democratic Socialist Party. He broke Six years after the restoration of such assessment by the aviation away from the Janata Samajbadi democracy, the Maoists waged a war, safety watchdog of the United Party, or the People’s Socialist Party. calling it “people’s war”, in a quest for Nations was done in 2009. Raj Kumar Baburam Bhattarai, a former an egalitarian society. Chhetri, spokesperson for the Civil Maoist leader, who is one of the lead- The war ended after a decade in Aviation Authority of Nepal, told the ers of the Janata Samajbadi, for quite 2006. The egalitarian dream remains Post that they had started prepara- a while has been making a pitch for distant, but the Maoist war did help tions for the big event, and were what he calls a socialist centre. raise awareness among the people, constantly holding meetings with Analysts say Nepali political par- especially the marginalised, the area counterparts. A separate steer- ties barely practice what they preach, oppressed and the downtrodden, about ing committee has been formed, led hence their party names do not really their rights. by Bhola Prasad Guragain, deputy matter. Now everyone is talking about It was the Maoist party’s demand director general of the aviation regu- socialism, without failing to outline that the country draft its constitution lator. ICAO’s Universal Safety any particular programme aimed at through a constituent assembly. The Oversight Audit Programme putting the country on the path of Maoist role in transitioning the coun- Continuous Monitoring Approach development. try from the monarchy to a secular focuses on a state’s capability to “The fact is our political parties are democratic republic cannot be ruled provide safety oversight by assessing the agents of cronyism and compra- out, say analysts. But in later years, whether it has effectively and dor capitalism,” Dinesh Prasain, who the party has been co-opted by its old consistently implemented the critical teaches sociology to MPhil students at enemies who it used to call “old tradi- elements of the safety oversight the Tribhuvan University, told the tional parties”. system. (Details on Pg 5) Post. “Their actions are opposite to >> Continued on page 2 C M Y K THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 02, 2021 | 02 NATIONAL MCC vice president Fatema Sumar to visit Nepal next Thursday Visit comes at a time when the US programme, which has courted controversy, is awaiting parliamentary ratification. POST REPORT Nepal and the US signed the MCC KATHMANDU, SEPT 1 agreement in 2017. The MCC, however, has become a hotly debated political Fatema Z Sumar, vice president of issue in Nepal. Some political parties Department of Compact Operations at have objected to the US programme the Millennium Challenge arguing that it is part of the Indo- Corporation is scheduled to arrive in Pacific Strategy and its parliamentary Nepal on September 9.
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