The key stakeholders in the crisis Nepal is currently in?the government, political leaders, agitating Madhesi parties and neighbouring India?are ruthlessly playing with the lives of the common people and the future of the country. The long anticipated and extensively delayed prime minister?s address to the nation on November 15 evoked feelings of nationalism and hopes for only those living in the comfort of power and not having to worry about their livelihood despite the alarming situation that prevails in the country. The speech did little to calm the nerves of the common people who are nearing their breaking point. It was meaningless for those people who were brutally baton-charged by the police and dispersed after they had waited for four consecutive days in front of cooking gas outlets in the hope of buying half a cylinder of the fuel; or the 85-year-old man who was unable to buy the firewood that the government was distributing just because he failed to produce his citizenship papers; or the son who lost his father to a heart attack as he was rushing through the streets and hospitals in search of medicines which are rapidly disappearing from the market due to the Indian embargo. And yet, neither the government nor the protesting parties have shown any urgency to solve the deadlock and end negotiations ?without even entering into the agenda?, as one of the members of the dialogue committee commented recently.
0 comments:
Posting Komentar