Daddy daddy cool democracy!

So it happened…the prodigal daughter is the Deputy Prime Minister now in Nepal.

The defensive from the prodigal daughter, what some media reported was that daddy made a cool unilateral decision in supposed to be not so cool plural democracy in Nepal. And daddy was cool enough to do in the past also such unilateral decisions despite again not so cool but not bold enough collective opposition from the supposed to be champions of democracy political party in Nepal. So what my daddy decided is cool… daddy daddy cool…I am crazy like a fool…

Somewhere I once read trying to understand functioning of democracy that there is a cause and a causer. Cause is the collective factor and the causer is the individualistic one. If the causer is greater than the cause, then democracy transforms into kleptocracy, aristocracy and if there are words like it, then ‘nepoticracy’ or ‘daddycracy’.

According to Economist Intelligence Unit’s index of democracy 2007 Nepal has been slotted into the category of ‘hybrid democracy’, which is not bad as there are worst categories also like ‘flawed democracy’. But mind you, there are other higher categories which are called ‘full democracy’ also. Nepal is no way that, but the hybrid one which is so much in between and can go either way, upwards or downwards. After all the name of the category itself explains aptly as hybrid. Not full breed… oops sorry!

So folks we have to wait and see…have to be patient as after almost two decades of restoration of democracy also, in Nepal it has not consolidated…maybe daddy daddy cool democracy is what we will have for sometime and then mummy mummy cool democracy and Nepal’s democratic index goes lower and lower…

While we wait where it heads, in the meanwhile, I have to go home tonight and dust off my old CDs of Boney M and CCR with all time hits….Daddy daddy cool and SuoooooziQ!

Await to be enlightened!

Before the incumbent Prime Minister Madhav Nepal left for India, the awesome, that is Prachanda (the erstwhile Maoist Primo) gave his piece of mind to Madhav not to sign the Pancheswore hydro power project with India. Or else you know what… The reason was the same old conspiracy theory that the water project treaty is lop-sided in terms of sharing the water and the power that can be generated from it.

This is nothing new in Nepal’s opposition politics. Long ago when we restored this democracy the Mahakali Treaty and the Arun III mega hydro projects were made a mountain out of mole hill redundant issues by the political parties in the opposition. And the promising projects never pulled through and till last year Nepalese were having impressive world record breaking power cuts. Worst of it all, the coming winter it is projected that we will be enjoying the darkness of nothing less than 18 hrs.

Everytime the government changes, failing hydro power projects which Nepal needs so badly has been the opposition’s prime agenda. If Arun III had not failed, which was the oppositional doing of the United Marxist Leninist, of course spearheaded by the incumbent Primo Madhav Nepal, we would not have had enjoyed the wisdoms and baby booms of darkness last winter in Nepal.

Weird is Nepali democracy, as a person who was rejected in so called democratic election from two constituencies, becomes a Prime Minister. The prodigal daughter with the same election fate becomes a Foreign Minister. Worst of it all the prodigal daughter would not budge to go to India because it is beneath her familiy’s political diginity to join the Prime Minister’s entroupe, as nothing less but the Deputy Prime Minister.

Somebody I know who is a respected Nepali water specialist, and had become once a water minister also, once told me that the Nepal would develop with harnessing the water resources has become a gaun khannay katha (closest contextual translation of this in English would be…it has become a myth). I am loosing hope and starting to believe that…

What little knowledge I have about water and Nepal’s hope from water, have been all darkened by the ensuing hours of record breaking darkness. I await for the days when our politicians and the political parties mend their ways and Nepali people are enlightened!