Total of 106 seats out of 189 constituencies-till now, leading in most of constituencies where counting continues and expected to have more then 50% of the total members in the house, in the world history it is hard to find Rebels turned into government with huge majority at such a short period. Although I am not very well acquainted with the world politics but would not be amazed if there is a great deal of discussion in Foggy Bottom (metonym for the United States Department of State) Washington and Secretariat Building South Block in New Delhi about this surprising result of CA election.
Most of us might be wondering what led Maoist get the win in such a majority by defeating major parties in Nepalese politics and moreover Nepali Congress so called Goliath of the game. Analysts’ prediction about the election result has turned upside down; it’s been like a fairy tale story come true for Maoist because not even in real sense Puspa Kamal Dahal (Prachanda) would have imagined his party will win in such a manner. We can see this scenario of vote cast by people in various angles like; Did Nepalese wanted a change from same old head of politicians and their unimplemented ideologies? or Did they dared to take fruitful risk by giving the chance to Maoist? Because maoist striked hard by their campaign which was focused on minorities. I am sure that Nepalese are not so immature to vote without rational thinking and neither are they naïve in nature to vote forgetting what Youth Communist League so called brother group of Maoist party has done in past (some good and many bads). The views piles up as it differs from person to person, and who knows anything I quote will disappoint either of the parties. :D
I am not writing my thoughts to criticize the failure and appreciate the winner but I am wondering what will be the scenario now because the results are unexpected. Washington still has the tag of “terrorists” on the head of Nepalese Maoist even though they signed a peace deal with mainstream parties in late 2006 ending a 10-year of insurgency and declared that they were ready to embrace democracy, but the tag still pops up. There are many things that might change (can be bad or good) but there are certain major issues that is still hunting in our mind like; what will be the view point of International donors who serve as the life blood for the financial condition of the country and the NRN organization that has been formed for overall development in the Nepal because these organization focuses to boost foreign investment and if real communism is expected to follow then self sufficiency notion will shadow the country’s economy.
Future will determine whether people were rational enough or not and anything that’s not par with the expectation will surely disappoint us (Nepalese). So let’s hope for the best and prepare for the worst cause things are changed now.
Picture source (http://blog.com.np/united-we-blog/2006/11/25)
Sketch by Dewen via Kantipur
