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Nepali Times #383 18 - 24 January 2008 16 pages Rs 30 Weekly Internet Poll # 383 Q. Who is most to blame in the delay in setting an election date? Total votes: 5,191 Weekly Internet Poll # 384. To vote go to: www.nepalitimes.com Q. With regard to the militant groups in the tarai, the state should? SAM KANG LI Going for broke How will the government fund the elections? KIRAN NEPAL concerns from Kathmandu-based cantonments who haven't been The government’s main source donor representatives on paid since April 2007, of revenue is next week’s share ow that it has the elections Wednesday about the expenses. compensate conflict victims and auction of Nepal Telecom, which sorted out, the spendthrift He clarified that the Rs 1 million provide security in the tarai. But is expected to yield Rs 10 billion. Ngoverning alliance is had already been budgeted as he can only muster Rs 2 billion. The government is selling its 150 finding it difficult to pay for all expenses for VDCs and the Mahat called the meeting with million shares at a minimum of its promises. ruling parties had decided to party leaders to ask donors to Rs 600 per share. But there is a There is a gaping shortfall of give the money to their MPs. meet the shortfall. writ in the Supreme Court about Rs 3 billion to pay for elections Donors said this would give an “Even if we pay only Rs discrepancies in the pricing of and requirements of the 23-point unfair advantage to incumbent 100,000 per conflict victim, then the shares for the public, who agreement. And at a time when parties, and they were not to meet all the other expenses will have to pay six times more money is so short, the seven satisfied about how this money included in the 23-point than the company's employees. parties have awarded themselves would be accounted for. agreement we need another Rs 3 Representatives of Rs 1 million per MP as pork-barrel Mahat calculates that the billion,” Finance Secretary Kathmandu-based embassies were funds for election expenses. government will need Rs 5 (Revenue) Rameswor Khanal told encouraged by the presence at Finance Minister Ram Sharan billion to finance the elections, Nepali Times. Wednesday’s Finance Ministry Mahat was hard pressed to answer pay for Maoists in the The Finance Ministry is meeting of Baburam Bhattarai massively in arrears on payments from the Maoists, Jhalanath to Indian Oil for petroleum Khanal of the UML and the NC’s imports, and domestic Chakra Bastola. borrowings have already exceeded Said one donor representative: Rs 8 billion at a time when “Now that they were there to interest rates are going up due to a discuss money, it looked like liquidity shortage in the market. elections were finally for real.” z 2 EDITORIAL 18 - 24 JANUARY 2008 #383 Published by Himalmedia Pvt Ltd, Editor: Kunda Dixit Design: Kiran Maharjan Director Sales and Marketing: Sunaina Shah marketing(at)himalmedia.com Circulation Manager: Samir Maharjan sales(at)himalmedia.com Subscription: subscription(at)himalmedia.com,5542525/535 Hatiban, Godavari Road, Lalitpur editors(at)nepalitimes.com GPO Box 7251, Kathmandu 5250333/845, Fax: 5251013 www.nepalitimes.com Printed at Jagadamba Press, Hatiban: 5250017-19 Just do it Things to do right away to avert a national crisis hy is the government Kathmandu dismissed it as an and respect for madhesi MADHES CHECKLIST making life difficult antic. The government only concerns, express commitment Wfor moderate madhesi wants to divide and rule. Why to autonomy. Do it like you Itís time someone gave the Prime Minister a wakeup call on the leaders? Surely it knows they are isn’t it starting a dialogue with mean it and see the change in madhes. Two NC ministers who should be warning their boss the only force which can pull the armed groups? Kathmandu the mood of the madhes. about the tarai, Peace Minister Ram Chandra Poudel and Home things back together. Like the hasn’t even implemented But the real blame lies not Minister Krishna Prasad Sitaula, are both in deep denial. madhesi extremists, does the promises made to Upendra with Poudel, but his prime Poudel is under the impression that all the demands of the state want polarisation? Is the Yadav. The 43 who died in the minister. He has time to make madhesi parties for regional autonomy and representation in the army and government have already been met. For the MJF led by Madhes Uprising last year were provocative statements about never honoured. The STF is Maoist assimilation in the army Upendra Yadav, the rump Sadbhabana of Rajendra Mahato and TARAI EYE harassing us. Is the prime and hatch plans for his the Tarai-Madhes Loktantrik party of Mahanta Thakur, this is a Prashant Jha slap in the face. minister in charge only north of daughter’s coronation, but he If there is such a wide communication gap among moderate the Chure? has no time to respond to madhesis who are committed to non-violence and elections, inertia a deliberate ploy to incite Maybe these sentiments are urgent madhesi demands. imagine the distrust of the state felt by armed groups in the tarai. conflict? Does it stem from an difficult for the insular ruling Koirala is known to be True, not all madhesis agree with all the demands made by unwillingness to share power? Or class to understand. But it is all concerned about his place in Yadav and recent defectors from the mainstream parties. The is it merely the sheer about identity and history. At this rate, he will madhes itself is multi-layered, divided by caste, language, incompetence of those in charge? representation. Madhesis wants just be remembered as a petty religion and ethnicity. Here is an opportunity to address the What else is one to make of to be assured that they will make manipulator who presided over grievances of the southern plains at one go, but the government is squandering that chance. the recent statements of the man it to the constituent assembly in the beginning of a bloody and However dire it may look from Kathmandu, however radical who is in charge of bringing numbers that correspond to their prolonged identity conflict the demands of the madhesi leaders, things havenít got to a point peace, Ram Chandra Poudel? In population; that the government in Nepal. of no return. Madhesis are sullen and angry at Kathmandu, and Biratnagar, at a time when he is not cheating them again; that Where does that leave those theyíre not hiding it. But instead of negotiating with moderate needs to sound conciliatory, he is the nature of the state will now madhesis who argue for calm, forces, Baluwatar is letting things drift dangerously. This will only belligerent and speaks about the revolve around a political who are shocked by the raw help residual reactionaries who want to disrupt the elections at all armed groups in a threatening principle that recognises them as violence and hate politics of costs, and make it more difficult for the madhesi leadership to tone. In a recent interview, he equal citizens; that wearing a the extremists, and who want wrest the tarai torch from the hands of the militants. pretends to be exasperated with dhoti and speaking broken Nepali an institutionalised mechanism Elections can be held on 10 April. Anyone who doubts that will the tarai parties and says: “If will not deprive them of to address aspirations? Weak provide excuses to those who want to avoid polls. Sections of the there are demands, we can talk. opportunities. and vulnerable, that’s where. It international community and UNMIN mustnít allow misgivings to become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Of course, it wonít be as There are no demands. What is All other demands are will be more difficult to take smooth as a referendum in Switzerland, where people cast their there to talk about?” peripheral. This actually gives the message of harmony and ballots in the post office on their way to work. Our elections are Here is what the madhesis are the government immense space to justice outside closed doors in sure to be messy. (But at least we will have a greater turnout than talking about: madhesis did not play. For all their maximalist district headquarters. It will in the Swiss cantons.) Elections will provide closure and clarity, get into the police again this rhetoric, the madhesi groups also silence Biratnagar’s Sanjay and many of the pending demands for identity and representation time. Look at how the media have an ill-defined agenda Yadav, a marketing manager can be debated and addressed in the elected assembly. celebrated Prashant Tamang just because they want to keep the who knows attacks on pahadis Many of the madhesi grievances are at the level of perception, because he is a pahadi while we room open for possible face- do not make economic sense but the three Brahmins of Baluwatar seem not to have understood are seen as Indians. Matrika savers. All the state needs to do is even for madhesis. It will, as that. Here is a simple three-point checklist: Yadav may have overdone the embark on symbolic measures Chandrakishor, a courageous restart the negotiation process swearing in, but look at how and substantive steps to begin journalist in Birganj, put it, send positive signals to the tarai the process of make life increasingly difficult announce concrete steps to redress grievances right away healing. for those who speak with logic. Kathmanduís status-quoists have to realise that Communicate On Saturday, a movement the days when the valleyís rulers decided on the with the madhes, begins in the madhes.
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