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Hattisar, Kathmandu Tel: 4425758, 4444717, 4444718 #149 13 - 19 June 2003 18 pages Rs 25 shipwrecked on the rock of bad governance, MANJUSHREE○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ THAPA the Chettri Thapas are back at the helm. ill last week the Thapas merely headed What do non-Thapas make of this? only the Royal Nepal Army (Pyar Jung Mostly they are too tactful to say anything, Thapa), the Nepal Police (Shyam Bhakta not wanting to engender caste disharmony, Thapa) and the Armed Police Force (Sahabir though the republicanists among them do Thapa, who is of Magar origin unlike the secretly wonder if the weight of Thapas will others,T all Chettri Thapas). now lead to another regime change. The Now Surya Bahadur Thapa has become the Bahuns, who are sick of being blamed for prime minister for the fifth time in his life ruled Nepal, the Thapas have been fighting off everything that has gone wrong in the past 12 not counting his chairmanship of King the Pandeys, Basnyats, Kunwars and sundry years, breathe easier now that they can point Mahendras advisory council in 1958. Chettris to claim control of the court. out the Chettris, who did after all govern The last time there were so many Thapas in It was thought those days were gone forever importantThe Thapaday nevertheless of wasthe Kazi Thapasometimes has with returned.khukuri in hand, that all they Nepal for the entire period preceding 1990. government the Panchayat regime collapsed when democracy came to Nepal in 1950, and Amarsingh Thapa, who led Nepals capture of have done is try to serve the nation. The The Thapas themselves are quietly under their weight. Ever since the Shahs have especially when it returned in 1990, bringing Kumaon in 1790 and of Garhwal in 1803. He Panchayat years saw many Thapas trying to do exhilirated, discussing at family gatherings so many Bahuns to power in a way that left the finally lost to the British at Devathal in 1815, this many times: Surya Bahadur, Biswabandhu, the infinite kinship lines that ultimatelyby ChettrisTHAPADOM muttering against the Bahuns at family and at family gatherings the Thapas still mutter Chiran Sumshere, Sushila, Bhekh Bahadur, marriage, over generations, many times Weekly Internet Poll # 89 gatherings. But luckily for the Chettris little can against the British for this. Niranjan, Kamal Thapa (the last has returned as removedconnect them all to each other. In stop the elite from reasserting themselves. Karl Prime Minister Mathbar Singh Thapa information minister in the present cabinet). the end a Thapa is a Thapa unless he is a Q. Who do you think currently best represents the Marx wrote something like that in thick books Bhimsens nephewdespite or because of his Captain Yagya Bahadur broke the Thapa mould Magar Thapa, in which case he should general welfare of the Nepal and Nepalis? that the Chettris have not read because reading considerable charisma was shot to death in 1845 by leading armed Nepali Congress guerillas till consider changing his name or at least tacking is not what the Chettris do. The Chettris do at the order of King Rajendra and Queen his capture in 1974. For reasons too obvious to on a nom de guerre. statecraft. Rajyalaksmi, by none other than Jung Bahadur belabour, there have been few Thapas in So: The Nepali state has dismally failed The Thapas have distinguished themselves Kunwar (later to rename himself Rana). This democratic politics. (There is Ram Bahadur to be inclusive. What, other than this, is as tenacious courtiers. Mukhtiyar Bhimsen has the Thapas muttering against the Ranas in Thapa Badal, but Maoism is hardly there to say? The Chettri Thapas are back in Thapa is the first Thapa to come family gatherings. democratic, and anyway Badal is a Magar control of the court. Break out the to mind when Thapas come to The Thapas also held lower posts in the Thapa). Now that democracy has got massively Khukuri Rum. t mind: He controlled the Shah Shah court, and when the Shahs were eclipsed, Total votes:3,280 court for 31 years, in part in the Rana court. Sardar Bhakti Thapa led Chief of Army Staff, Pyar Jung Thapa, the Armed Police Weekly Internet Poll # 90. To vote go to: www.nepalitimes.com by killing 90 of Regent 2,000 troops against the British and died Force chief Sahabir Thapa, and Nepal Police chief, Shyam Bhakta Thapa. Q. Who do you think is primarily responsible for the Queen defending Devathal in 1815. Subedar current state of the nation? Tripurasundaris rivals Dalamardan Thapa served as Jung so that he could rule Bahadurs personal assistant during his under her sovereignty. 1850 visit to Britain and France. Harka He did not succeed in Jung Thapa was one of two officers in the 1814-1816 war with charge of Lord Curzons 1901 the British, but the hunting trip to Chitwan. Thapas love him Now the Thapas will argue, nonetheless because he tried so hard to control those pesky imperialists, overseeing military battles and negotiating treaties himself while trying to beat down Hodgson. He was Patan Museum Café eventually done in by the Pandeys, whose treachery the We are pleased to announce that we have Thapas still mutter about at extended the opening hours of the family gatherings. Patan Museum Cafe. Not from the same line of Thapas but an From1030 – 1930 hrs For reservations and more information please call 55 26271/ 55 24694 Wooing Congress NAVIN○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ SINGH KHADKA At face value, Surya Bahadur Thapa’s government appears to be in deeper soup than his predecessor Lokendra Bahadur Chand’s. The NC and the UML not only spurned the offer to join his cabinet, but say they will continue their street agitation. Within the RPP itself, Pashupati SJB Rana is angry because Thapa has not included his men in the new cabinet. Thapa also faces potential threats from the Maoists and a conglomerate of smaller leftist parties. If Thapa is surrounded, how come he exudes so much confidence? The seasoned politician is playing it cool, confident that kangresis will join his cabinet after an incubation period. The bait: a temporary reinstatement of parliament or elections. That is why Thapa has kept key portfolios to himself. “He knows the kangresis will come to him soon enough, and he’ll need to dangle those posts,” said one Thapa loyalist. What gives Thapa flexibility vis-à-vis the NC is the disenchantment of second-generation kangresis with the leadership. Shailaja Acharya has been against the agitation led by her uncle, Girija Koirala, and other relatively-young turks seem to be siding with her. Even Koirala (undergoing a routine health check in Dharan) has privately hinted that the party will join Thapa if the parliament is reinstated. If that happens, the UML will have been left in a lurch since a NC-RPP combine will muster a majority in a reconvened house. Ideally, there could then be a new all-party negotiating team with the Maoists and a government to oversee future elections. From the point of view of some kangresis, this will then roll back the king’s October Fourth move, and the king will have a face-saving way to break this six-month deadlock. Meanwhile, the politicians from the five-party alliance remain deeply suspicious of Thapa and doubt his intention of reinstating parliament. Editorial p2 Winner takes nothing 13 - 19 JUNE 2003 2 EDITORIAL NEPALI TIMES #149 Nepali Times is published by Himalmedia Pvt Ltd, Chief Editor: Kunda Dixit STATE OF THE STATE by CK LAL Desk Editor: Trishna Gurung, Design: Kiran Maharjan Webmaster: Bhushan Shilpakar [email protected], www.nepalitimes.com Advertising: Sunaina Shah [email protected] Subscription: Anil Karki [email protected] Sales: Sudan Bista [email protected] Sanchaya Kosh Building, Block A-4th Floor, Lalitpur GPO Box 7251, Kathmandu, Nepal Tel: 01-5543333/ 5523845 Fax: 01-5521013 Printed at Jagadamba Press, Hattiban: 01-5547018/17 ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ WINNER TAKES NOTHING FoxIf○○○○○○○○○ he is really in smart, the Surya chicken-coopBahadur Thapa will reinstate parliament. he political tragedy of our time is that history keeps repeating itself as farce. urya Bahadur Thapa is the second When chosen by King Birendra to position personally to the fifth-time This raises the question: do we need a cabinet at all? It seems to be so difficult prime minister of the post-Fourth bestow retroactive legitimacy on the premier. to cobble together a team, that people are saying we may be better off just October order. If Girija Prasad hybrid democracy introduced by his With the media, Thapa has such a letting the king and prime minister run things for a bit. The biggest objection to Surya Koirala and Madhab Kumar Nepal look father, Thapa ensured the victory of comfortable relationship that even Bahadur Thapa’s appointment of seven trusted colleagues as cabinet members worried, they have every reason to be. Panchayat system in a national Nepali Congress and UML mouthpieces Tcomes from his own party. “Since you didn’t include us, we’re going make life hell for S With Thapa comfortably ensconced in referendum against seemingly have been muted in criticism of a man you,” seems to be the political credo of those left out. Singha Darbar, their virtual parliament will insurmountable odds. The deck against who out-manoeuvred their own political And as long as we are at it, in half jest we suggest scrapping the bureaucracy probably have to sit on the pavement for multiparty democracy in the plebiscite masters.
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