First of all, let us wish our PM a good recovery so that he will at least be able to attend the closing ceremony of the 13th South Asian Games (SAG). We have to give it up for our folks at the Nepal Sports Council and the Ministry of Youth and Sports for doing their best to host this event despite all the problems in this land of ours.
Let us not only blame our Oli government but all successive governments since we became a multi-party democracy have been ignoring the youth and development of sports in this country.
We only have one national stadium that too built during the days of the Pancheys. In the past 30 years, our government could have built at least one bigger venue enough to fit half a lakh people but I guess all the money meant for youth and sports only went to our civil servants, cadres and cousins of our clowns instead.
We may still hate the Pancheys for everything that went wrong then but we can’t keep on blaming them or the monarchy for all the problems since 2006. Our netas should own up their mistakes and work together to make it right instead of blaming it on each other or even the public for all the chaos in this land. Maybe, our netas can show us that they are also human by going to a club at midnight and having some good old fun rather than drinking whiskey and going after government employees.
We hosted the first SAG in 1984 and then the second one in 1999 and now twenty years later, we are hosting the 13th SAG and we are still using the same old Rangasala for our opening and closing act. And instead of our own government building stadiums in all seven provinces, we have a comedian who is doing all he can to build an international standard stadium in Chitwan.
I think we should just let a few hundred comedians run this country while our politicians can participate in comedy shows across the land. That way, our politicians can at least be proud of the fact that they are making an honest living rather than using their shitty brains to engage in more corruption than ever.
Our government allocates a few billion Rupees for sports development in this land and so far we are still waiting for the cricket ground in Mulpani and we all know that most of the venues will probably need repair and renovation in matter of months after the SAG. This is the land which sends more officials than athletes to international sporting events.
There are hundreds of sports associations and most of them are headed by folks who have never even played Dandi Biyo in their lives. And the heads of these sports association go overseas more than once a year to attend conferences and sporting events while the real athletes are even forced to pay their own airfare even in the events they have qualified and are entitled to free tickets and other perks.
Our athletes have been getting the shaft forever. It’s time we honor our athletes who have made this country proud. Baikuntha Manadhar won us three SAG gold medals in marathon. The guy is 66 years old and he gets nothing. But the guys who have stolen from our state treasury get free health care, free vehicles , free security and boras of freebies just because they are stupid netas who have managed to trick us all into voting for them.
We can’t blame our chors because we are the ones who voted for them. So, all we can do for now is admit our mistakes and vote for another chor the next time around because the current chor in the kurchi will have made enough in the next three years.
If Manandhar was an Amrikan, then he would be like at every Independence Day Parade or all big parades in that country. He would have made millions of dollars from endorsements, book deals, movie rights and what not. Let us honor the man and all those athletes, men and women who have made us all proud as athletes.
Our Sports Council and the Ministry and the so-called Olympic Committee wallahs should be ashamed of themselves. Our athletes get paid peanuts and our coaches do it for the love of the game. Our officials are the ones who are having all the fun because most of them are affiliated to our major political parties. That’s how the system works in this land. If you want to steal government funds then you must be part of the government.
It’s about time sports in this land be under the President’s authority or we have our athletes under government’s payroll and help them to play their sport while providing enough for their families as well. I think we can just go ahead and tax our alcoholic and tobacco products to the max and make it the most expensive in the world.
Yes, let us be number one for once. Let’s beat Bosnia and be the number one country in the world with the highest tax on cigarettes. We can put that tax money for development of sports and our youth. But of course, we have already seen the good use of our vehicle taxes in this land. I think it’s time to bring the Liglig race back. Yes, whoever wins the race can be our King or Queen for a year. After all, aren’t our buffoons who now sit on the Kurchi think of themselves more than Kings and Queens?
Guffadi is a grumpy old man who blogs at guffadi.blogspot.com. You may contact him at maguffadi@gmail.com
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