Friday, July 29, 2005

UN governance

Everyone who will look at the history of Nepal will have to realize that neither the monarchy, not the political parties will help Nepal emerge out of poverty and lead to prosperity. The centralized rule has fostered massive corruption, and subdued regional and community efforts for development. The best way to move forward is to create federal system within five regional development centers with zonal independence included. Monarchy should be gotten rid of. It is a white elephant that can no longer be supported. Parties should be allowed to develop and hone their democratic governenace at the zonal and regional developmental level. UN should be allowed to take care of the central governance for at least 10 years, by which time, some kind of stability in democratic governance can be achieved by the parties at the sub-national level. National givernance can then be transferred to Nepalese political parties under the auspicies of a national democratic election. As it stands now, Nepalese culture does not support democarcy, the parties merely talk of democracy, and the monarchy is totally against democracy and it has been under the present leadership.

Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Constitutional monarchy is a bad idea for Nepal

It seems like everyone seems to feel that there need to be an agreement between the political parties, monarchy and the Maoists to find a solution to Nepal's crisis. It is apparent, the international community wants to see restoration of constitutional monarchy. That is a total lack of innovation. What Nepal needs is a clean political slate where there is no more institutionlization of deep-rooted monarchy, which will wait for the right moment to strike again. Given the feable intelligence and integrity of political parties, there is going to be no positive putlook unless the entire political structure is changed and a radical step is taken. That step should be strong political powers to local communities and token limited power to the center--on foreign affairs and defense. That's all. Since corruption is so rampant at the highest level, they should be starved to death and eradication.....