Well, King Deuba is back in power and he is good at power sharing. He will make sure he stays in Baluwatar by using his magic formula of bhaag-bandaa. We have a Maoist Finance Minister. He seems to be a nice guy. Let's see how he does with his portfolio.
And, the biggest joke so far is the State Minister for Health, our dear Umesh Dai. The guy owns LA School, pharmas and many other business ventures. He is a billionaire now. He has indeed worked hard to make his billions but to have him as one looking after the Health ministry is like asking a tipper wallah to be in the road safety committee hola.
Nothing against Umesh Dai, but don't be surprised if he makes a bundle out of any vaccine deals in the coming days.
So how does one become a mantri in Nepal? The normal route is to be a cadre, work hard in your district, be the district chief and get some leverage and then be in the central committee and make more friends and hopefully be powerful enough to be a mantri someday if your party is in power. And sometimes, you don't even have to win elections, you can be nominated from the PR quota as well.
The other route is to become a byapari and make your billions and then get nominated through the PR quota or win elections if you have enough muscles. And when your party is in power, offer the head honcho a few Karods to bag a mantri ko seat.
Our political parties are in a bad shape. The real, hardworking karykartas are always sidelined whereas contractors, commission chors and con artists with enough dough become mantris in our land. That's why our political parties now follow the criminals instead of their own cadres. Instead of working for the common folks, our politicians now work for byaparis and contractors.
Deuba will expand his cabinet in the coming days. Don't be surprised if you see a whole lot of byaparis and the usual ghoos-khoris and you never know, we might again have a jumbo cabinet because that's what Deuba is good at!
If you would like me to write about something then do send me an email to maguffadi@gmail.com
image source: Jagran Josh
No comments:
Post a Comment