| by Dirgha Raj Prasai
Views expressed in this article are author's own
(November 10, 2012, Kathmandu, Sri Lanka Guardian) The
very essence of leadership is that one should have a clear vision to move the
certain path where we are engaged. The highest result of politics is to work
according to the ideology with tolerance, in social service is to work with
participation and in literature is to exercise creatively. Those who live in
the glass houses should not throw stones at others'. But, I regret the fact
that many people reached in the high posts of the state and many literary
figures are of opportunistic disposition. Such judgment is not necessarily carried
out on general subjects that do not have a national status. In carrying out
good works the general public receives commendation from the society and
punishment from the police administration if they commit wrong acts. It is not
unusual. However, those leaders, who have gained national status by reaching
coveted position, if they show opportunistic inclination in doing their job,
they become subject of internal condemnation. If we do not oppose such
opportunists we will be trampling our senses of morality. We don't want yes-men
in my country. We want everyone to tell the truth, even it costs our jobs. The
great hope of society is the individual character. But, almost the human beings
are losing their horizons for their foolishness.
I remember the lines of a poem written by a poet Siddhicharan Shrestha,-
'Who is coming in this path with forgetting and defeating, who can't understand
the truth, who follows the fallaciousness, and going downward and cries himself
as a great. He is man but mindless is coming through the path.' Humans are
multi-faceted. Some are like great Buddha, some are simple and some die a
disgraceful death. It is not easy to reveal the dark characteristics of those
who transform from being an opportunist to reactionary. In trying to disclose
the identities of opportunistic leaders and litterateurs, patriotic people like
us fall in the possibility of being accused. Great poet Bhawabhuti said- 'An
innocent person also may be caught in accusation when indicting a criminal or
murderer.'
I want to mention some of the incidents in
which I have issued threats and attacked those whom I considered opportunists
and possessing the characteristics of foreign tools. But people say- 'Why do
you want to become outspoken by opposing someone else?' But, I express that the
works of the nation is a common property by any means. If we do not oppose
those who betray the nation it would be tantamount to supporting their
treacherous works. It is necessary to
remember- if Money is lost nothing is lost, heath is lost something is lost,
but Character is lost everything is lost. These opportunists, brokers, corrupt
and reactionaries have their own gangs. Such culprits don't like to follow the
evergreen way of life. They are disposed to spreading a pal of illusion over
the society so as to make their effort to pillage state coffer less difficult. In
such context a sincere and loyal servant of the nation finds it hard to move
forward. However, if we can disclose facts against these liars, even if it may
be a bit late, it will certainly be lasting. King Mahendra had once told me in
a meeting- 'Who speaks frankly is always glad' and I remember the line of one
of his poems- 'Never be disgraced to work in this lovable world.'
Former Foreign Minister Shailendra Kumar Upadhaya since
1961 had been a responsible minister and a confidant to King Mahendra during
the Panchayat system. In 15 December,
1960 he was outspoken and he wrote a lot in consideration of its importance and
necessity. And after the re-establishment of Party-democracy in 1989, he wrote
an article for Kantipur daily under the title- 'Poush 1st, (dismissed the
parliamentary democracy-15 Dec.) a black day’. After reading the article I got angry
too much. That day was the King Birendra's birth Day- Poush 14th. We were at Tundhikhel-
Army ground for celebration the King's Birthday. In 1972 I had given
a gift of Atharai’s Khukuri (a
Nepalese sword) to King Birendra. The King took out the sword from its sheath
and handled it dexterously- how well! Trained the King was. As for me I can’t
put that sword in its sheath in such a prompt manner. Then I wrote an article
for Nepal Samacharpatra daily the same day mentioning King Birendra and his
handling of the Khukuri. I then met Shailendra
Kumar. Then I told him before the big groups of VIP, “Eh! Traitor! Don’t you have any shame! Why you wrote '1st
Poush' black day after drinking so much blood of King Mahendra? Eh! Traitor and
contractor! Actually you are just a son of Chandra Shekhar, the traitor of
Sugauli Treaty-1816?” This message was published in different newspapers the
next day. I just pounced at him and that day. From that day onwards whenever we met he could
not look at me in the eye. He died at the bottom of Mt. Everest. Without
writing any such article.
DP Adhikary and Sri Bhadra Sharma entered the
Panchayat from the Communist and
Congress and participated in the formulation of the draft of the 1980
constitution. I invited them to speak a lot through the Panchayat Analysis Center as a chairman. I used to respect them. I
maintained a good relationship. Later DP and Shri Bhadra both became ministers.
Before 1961, he was the secretary general of Nepali Congress under the
chairmanship of BP Koirala. Such person, in 1977 Shri Bhadra pressed for taking
action against BP Koirala, in Rajbiraj, forgetting his past life which I read
in Gorkhapatra daily. I was very much angry with him. Later he joined the
Congress and wrote an article for Kantipur daily under the title, 'BP was a
great patriotic democrat.' Then I took him to be a sheer reactionary. At the
time when he was a minister for a monarch he sought to take action against BP,
but when the multiparty system came he praised the same BP in hope of gaining favor
for a powerful position in the state government. 'Due to such opportunist,
Nepal has been destroyed,' I wrote repeatedly in various weekly newspapers; after
which Shri Bhadra had not the courage to show his face. He did not write
anymore and died with regret and pain.
Taking the then Prime Minister Surya Bahadur
Thapa to be a wise person I started to become close to him from 1968. From that
same year I found Surya Bahadur to be an egoist, fake nationalist and a
sycophant. I stopped meeting him. In 1979 we were both members of the
parliament and he became PM at the time of referendum. I started to oppose his
corrupt ventures after referendum openly. One day he was giving a speech at the
National City hall and accusing everyone of corruption. Then I stood up from
where I was seated and in a threatening tone said, 'Eh! You should speak about
the acts of corruption that you carried out during your term.' Then everyone
stood up in fear. He was foaming like a dead person. In 1977 during a district
assembly at Dhankuta he had to show off as a nationalist by unnecessarily
calling for execution of BP Koirala.
After 1977 he became PM repeatedly during the
King’s rule, and even after 2003 Surya bahadur Thapa became PM succeeding
Lokendra Bahadur Chand. Lokendra was also known incompetent. But, Surya bahadur
is more dangerous than the non-starter Lokendra. I puzzled- and I wrote- why
the self-advisors of the King deceived the King? Within a month after he was
hauled to the PM’s post I published an article in the Kantipur daily on 15 July 2003 saying, 'The nation has been pushed into the trap of darkness in
appointing such a fatal and corrupt a person as Surya Bahadur to the post of
premiership. Surya Bahadur will drown the nation attacking to the party leaders
and betray the monarch and run away.' The degree of truth in that article
everyone witnessed as the incidents unfolded. Since 2006, the strong
monarchist-SB Thapa is a staunch republican. Congress conferred the BP award on
that same reactionary in 2012. How shameful! After he became a republican I
have written many articles revealing his true identity and accusing him of
being a pro-Indian traitor and corrupt. Now Surya Bahadur is like a living
corpse in Nepalese political scenario.
A writ petition was filed on 12 March 1996 at
the Supreme Court against the government decision to scrap the pension of
former lawmakers and only provide allowances to lawmakers coming after 1991. After
two years’ debate in Supreme Court, seven member benches that included veteran
justice Keshav Prasad Upadhaya, took the decision on 24 December 1997, saying
that although Panchayat lawmakers are
also as parliamentarians of the democratic system but they are not entitled to
pension. As soon as the verdict was taken we shouted slogans- ‘Bhrasta
Nyayadish Murdabad' (down with corrupt justice)’. When we shouted- 'A son
of a clerk like Keshav Prasad has such and such an intellectual disposition.' Then
he was insulted and demoralized. A day after all of the newspapers had this
news published. The justices were inclined to sue us. We won the case. Although
Keshav Prasad went on to become Chief Justice he could not raise his head with
dignity. He is undergoing severe pain. Another petition was filed at the Court
after which, a verdict annulled the pervious provision allowing the lawmakers
after 1991 from receiving pension.
Likewise, I had judged Kirtinidhi Bista in
the status of a sincere nationalist. In 2005, when the King chaired the cabinet
he approved of Rs. 1 million budget uselessly which he used to build his own
house. Then on the day of Bhanu Jayanti in
front of the Bhanu’s statue at Rani Pokhari, I cried before everyone by saying,
'Should you betray the nation and the King by taking Rs. 1 million at such a
time?' Since then he could not rise in politics with a bright face. When former
Prime Ministers Dr. Giri and Kirtinidhi Bista became vice chairmen under the
leadership of the monarch I raised the issue of their characteristics. They
were plunged into difficulty. Because, his gentle past life may be teased him.
During the King’s rule another brute Dr.
Sundarmani Dixit published an article emphasizing that the status of Hindu
Kingdom and the royal institution is Nepal’s traditional identity. I went to
his house early in the morning to congratulate him. He had written the article
with the intention of gaining a ministerial portfolio from the King. Later when
he was not appointed a minister he became a Maoist. It was a day Martyrs’ Day
in Nepal. I was speaking at a mass meeting at Mangal Bazaar in Lalitpur
district. He had also been invited in the meeting. When I saw him I said, 'There
is an opportunist traitor before me. If he expresses tribute to the martyrs it will
be shameful. I strongly pointed out in bitter words that I feel disgusted when
such traitors remember the martyrs. We could see that he was nervous and
jittery. Since then that reactionary doctor seemed depleted of air in his body.
Similarly, I was in good terms with his big
brother Kamal Dixit, since his visit to Atharai-Eastern Nepal in 1959. He had
published a biographical book through Mahesh Prasai. I had also been invited
and I went. Next year I was invited to
a book release function by Kamal Dixit in which the book was released through
Narendra Prasai who married Mahesh Prasai’s wife Indira Prasai- his nephew's
wife and the book was published spending Rs. 500,000 was spent on behalf of his
biography by Narendra Prasai and Indira Prasai. I felt disgusted and I did
not go. I spat on him. Should we make all litterateurs goats just because there
are economic incentives? It was not enough for him to eat useless black money (Barmaso) of wife of Matdan shamsher-queen
Jagdamba and he went on to write his autobiography through such disgusting
lots. Since then, his face has never been bright. He fell into the swamp alive.
I hear that he does not speak to those who had written the autobiography.
Since the 2006 uprising all leaders have felt
that they are King. They superseded the 1990 constitution with an interim
constitution. Its drafter and Supreme Court’s former justice Laxman Aryal submitted
the draft of the interim constitution that is like a monkey's tail, which is
neither like a baton nor a weapon. In reality that was a declaration paper of
the Maoists. That was implemented. A grand gathering was organized at the
Shankar Hotel in Lazimpat under the chairmanship of Laxman Aryal. I also got an
opportunity to speak in that meeting. I attacked him with high sound- 'I feel
disgusted speaking when the chairperson of this meeting is a traitor.
This is the same person who trampled on
constitutionalism, being a drafter of 1990 constitution who drafted as a
head-person to draft an interim constitution to drown the nation. He was so
much angered at this that my microphone was cut off. Commentator Malla K.
Sundar eased the situation saying that it is Dirgha Raj’s personal views. Then
he went on to announce another speaker. From that day Laxman Aryal’s influence
dwindled. He also died of such pain. Likewise, during the King’s rule I
strongly opposed Sharad Chandra Shah and Ramesh Pandey that they would
contribute to the fall of the nation by giving ill advises to the King. It was
published in many newspapers. They too became demoralized and could not show
their faces.
These days the subject of my criticism is the
Maoists’ leader and Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai’s past and present acts. During
the insurgency in 1995, I wrote many articles for many newspapers in support of
Baburam Bhattarai. Then I felt that Baburam was a patriot. After the 12 point
pact reached in New Delhi I started to delve deeper into Baburam’s reality. I
found out that he was a traitor, a criminal. He is now working at a scheme to
terrorize the Nepalese people and unleash a blood bath. Likewise, I have
written many articles mentioning the names of Congress’ Girija and UML’s Madhav
Nepal like foreign contractors. On 10 August 2009 I had published an article in
Tarun weekly under the title, ‘Lets Raise Sword against the Traitors’ in which
I predicted that India was willing to swallow Nepal using RAW agent the Maoist
Baburam Bhattarai. He filed a case in the court against me. After a debate that
went on for two and a half years and at a time of Baburam’s current term the
court gave a verdict in my favor when he is PM. Now he is also like a live
corpse. In reality like a goat with a human head, Baburam’s body is Nepalese
but his heart Indian. His identity was further disclosed when he filed a case
against me. He has not been able to raise his head with dignity.
I have not seen a more fatal traitor and
sinner as Baburam Bhattarai who pushed for annulment of the case pending in the
court against the murderers of a nationalist former minister from Siraha
Krishna Charan Shrestha- a very popular people's leader and many other cases as
such. He invites foreigners who like to suck the blood of Nepal mother, and he
carries with him a team of murderers. there are such corrupts 15 to 20 traitors
who enjoy power, like the former PM late Girija Prasad Koirala, who had been an
advocate of the royal institution and democracy and later a staunch republican,
his daughter Sujata Koirala, former PM and minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, Ramchandra
Poudel, Narahari Acharya, Ramsaran mahat, Madhav Nepal, Bamdev Gautam have
drained the state coffer. After 2006 they came under the influence of the
Indian intelligence agency and agreed for a 12 point understanding. Following
the uprising they reached an agreement with the monarch but later went on to
declare the state secular, republic and impose federalism.
I have written many articles published in
various newspapers against these 15 to 20 traitors like the Maoists-Prachada,
Baburam Bhattarai, agent of CIA and advocate of Free-Tibet Padmaratna Tulathar
that have demoralized in revealing their true identity. If one searches for my
name in google.com that person will come across my articles which will reveal a
lot of facts. My belief is firmly rooted in the fact that ‘only truth and only
truth emerges victorious’. I am proud of the fact that I have not been
attracted by any power position and economic benefits have always been able to
reveal the facts of traitors and corrupt leaders.
