FOREIGN PLAY CHARGE GAINS NEW HEIGHT

By Bhola B Rana

Kathmandu, 14 Sept.: Foreign play charges have gained new height with a revelation of a take telephonic conversation of Maoist Foreign Department Chief Krishna Bahadur Mahara with an unidentified Chinese demanding Rs 500 million to purchase votes of lawmakers for Chairman Prachanda in legislative elections for prime minister.
Vice-chairman Narayan Kazi Shrestha said there was no such conversation while demanding a probe into who tapped the talk.
NC and UML Tuesday demanded a judicial inquiry.
Parliament met Tuesday to discuss the tape controversy without Maoist disruption.
Maoist spokesman Dinanath Sharma Monday after a party central committee meeting didn’t the tape contents charging US, Indian embassies land Nepal for phone tapping.
Another vice-chairman, Mohan Baidya, charged Monday India interfered to present the election of Prachanda.
Nepal Majdoor Kishan Party Chairman Narayanman Bijukakchaya charged India for financing a campaign to prevent Prachanda from being elected.
Foreign play in Nepali politics is clearly influencing Nepali politics.
Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan lobbied for entry into Nepal to handle tricky political issues, like the 10-year Maoist people’s war that claimed more than 15,000 lives, without adequate homework.
The UN is now shifting blame on political parties for the political mess for which people and the nation are suffering but political parties not bothered about.
Political parties are making money and enjoying privileges out of the chaos; they aren’t making any serious effort to resolve the crisis and instead are concentrating of capturing or holding on to Singha Durbar.
To recall, top UN diplomat and a Somali communist Samuel Tamrat was dispatched by Annan to New Delhi to negotiate UN entry into Nepal even when Maoists were declared terrorists by Nepal, India and USA.
With the knowledge of Washington of New Delhi and Washington,, UN was negotiating with a terrorist organization; Maoists are still on Washington’s terrorist list.
India handed over a pencil draft of a 12-point comprehensive peace treaty on a piece paper to Girija Prasad Koirala during the royal regime in New delhi.
“I am a witness,” said Chakra Prasad Bastola Koirala’s nephew and top party leader who negotiated the agreement with Maoists sheltered in the Indian capital’s outskirts.
Maoist sympathizer and now critic, former Congress Home Minister Krishna Prasad Shitaula, has said the meeting between Koirala and top Maoist leaders sheltered in India couldn’t have taken place without
Indian disconcern.
Prachanda has accepted he spent eight on 10 years of the insurgency in the Indian urban jungle.
Home Minister Kamal Thapa and now Chairman of RPP-Nepal Kamal Thapa openly accused Indian government for supplying weapons and ammunition of Maoists during the rebellion.
While pushing negotiations between Nepali rulers and its Maoists, New Delhi refuses to negotiate with its Maoists—Naxalites—who are India’s biggest security threat, according to Indian officials, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
India accuses Pakistan of harbouring terrorists while New Delhi shelters declared terrorists from Nepal or ignores the presence of their activists on its soil.
India rejected a proposal of King Birendra, supported by more than 100 countries, including the Ronald Reagan administration of USA, to declare to declare Nepal a zone of peace by cracking down of cross-border anti-government activities.
The leader of a Chinese delegation currently visiting Nepal says China won’t interfere in Nepal’s internal affairs and asked other countries to remain aloof as well.
The toppling of monarchy wouldn’t have been possible without the support of major parties to parities in Nepal, including Maoists.
Maoists, therefore, are hoodwinking the people by saying they and they alone toppled the 238-year-old Shah dynasty established by Pithvi Narayan Shan the Great who unified modern Nepal along with Nepal Army.
Foreign play in Nepal is real, not imaginary.
Inconsequential but oil-rich Scandinavian states like Denmark and Norway send special delegations and try to broker a deal whenever an obstacle in internal politics emerges.
India, during elections for prime minister even sent unannounced a special Shyam Sharan, as a special representative to try and end the deadlock.
Interestingly. Sharan began and ended the visit by meeting ceremonial President Dr Ram Baran Yadav amid speculation of imminent presidential rule.
Very interesting, indeed!
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SPEAKER NEWANG PRESSES FOR AMENDMENT OF PARLIAMENT PROCEDURE

Kathmandu, 14 Sept: Speaker Subash Nemwang Tuesday called for an amendment to rules of parliamentary procedures and asked two prime ministerial candidates of UCPN (Maoist) and NC for an outlet to the prolonged deadlock.
‘Without that, I can’t do anything,” he said at a meeting in the capital.
He was critical of parties who have been staying neutral in voting helping to prolong to deadlock.
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CHATTER

“Paras Shah hasn’t hijacked an airline or instigated the downfall of Royal Nepal Airlines engineering the Dhamija and Lauda kandas. He hasn’t hacked heads of landlords like some did in Jhapa. He hasn’t killed hundreds of people estimated at 15,000. In USA. killing more than three persons is considered mass murder.”

(Trader Dipak Bhattarai at a social outing)
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