The following letter to editor was published by The Kathmandu Post against the growing terrorism by Maoist.  I have been using pseudonym 'Subarna Thapa'

Simikot clash

This refers to the news story titled: "Maoist, NC-D cadres clash in Simikot" (May 28). The beating up of RPP cadres and hurling stones at the vehicle of US ambassador were sheer barbaric acts. There is a limit to everything.

The Maoists have not given up their violent method of intimidating people. It proves that the Maoists do not want Nepal to be peaceful and developed. They want it to be instable. Communists do not want stability because they know that it does not create enough space for them to rule the people. And it is true that indoctrination is impossible when there is political stability.

One party autocracy is the worst form of governance. The Maoists must desist from using force and imposing their dirty and obsolete ideology on the people. The YCL cadres should also realize that what they are doing is waiting for a political disaster that will sweep the communists out of this country. And the so called red army must look for their survival. Dragging the country into anarchy will only shorten the life of the Maoists. If they take laws into their hands, will others hesitate to follow the YCL suit?

Subarna Thapa

Minbhawan, Kathmandu

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Dear All:

As you all know I have been writing letters to editor in defense of freedom. Few are published in Nepali language as well.  For obvious security reasons I have started using pseudonym 'Subarna'. Here is the latest one published on Saturday (May 26th).

http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=110662

Letters to the editor

'No Oil Corporation'

Indeed it would be justified if we call NOC "No Oil Corporation" (May 25). NOC's inability to payoff the credit to the Indian Oil Corporation has turned things chaotic here. The obvious reason for this is the government is not consumer-friendly. It is, however, also the Indian government which has been trying to capitalize on this crisis. The clear solution to this problem is complete privatization of the energy market.

It has to be understood that the IOC is using an economic tactics of monopoly which is protected by the Indian government. When politics is meddled with economy, there is bad repercussion.

The root cause of this crisis is the government's illogical political decision of regulating the energy market, which should have been left in the hands of the private sector.

The best alternative in this context is to deregulate the energy economy. It has good implications in the economy, first to break IOC and NOC monopoly.

Secondly, since the market is based on the supply and demand, it would enhance competitiveness amongst private sectors. Thirdly, various international energy giants will be interested in Nepal which will have multiplier effect in the economy, especially employment creation.

Subarna

Minbhawan, Kathmandu

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Always
Krishna

It is evident that in Nepal there has been reemergence of the Communists.  Trade Unionization is being kept as the forerunner to curtail economic activities.  

I had been able to publish letters to editor in a leading English Daily ‘The Kathmandu Post’ in May 1, 2007. 

My letters were republished by http://toledotattler.blogspot.com/2007/05/letter-to-editor-in-nepal.html

 

Letters to the editor (The Kathmandu Post, May 17, www.ekantipur.com)

Trade-union terror

This is in reference to the news "Casino Royal Closed" and editorial "Education strike" (May 15). Of course, there are the problems in operation of the organizations but the trade-union terror is complicating things. Demands of the teachers and the Casino employees are totally irrelevant in a sense that they have affected life of the general public.

It has to be understood that these are not the issues related to general employees but the politicization. These kinds of trade unionism are creating an environment for capital flight, unemployment, and volatile market.

It is not the duty of the trade union to define the rights of people working in any organization. An individual should be able to compete. Collective thinking is the major problem. Trade-unionism has limited the new job seekers finding newer avenues. I am not against people's inalienable rights of assembly, but the forceful participation equally inhibits the free participation.

The case is interesting. For instance, hundreds of employees are losing jobs in the name of collective rights. This indicates that to fulfill any sort of demands people can padlock the organization. This is a form of psychological terrorism to fulfill illogical demands.

The trade unions operate with their certain interests. It is not the welfare of the general employee trade unions wants; what they want is welfare of the leaders working on it and the mother political parties. Trade unions are always corrupt in a sense that an illegitimate deal is likely out of such activity. Leaders would be paid 'dark room lofty amounts' by entrepreneurs to stop these activities which will not be trickled down to a general member. Trade union is a distortion in the operation of the market activities. They restrict free competition. 

Subarna

Minbhawan, Kathmandu

 

 

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Celebrating May 1st?

This is in reference to the authoritarian activities of the Maoist trade unions—for instance their attempt to disturb the NC's Birgunj mass meeting on April 28. Such coercive means to restrict freedom of expression emanate only from the rule of thumb of ultra-communists.

This indicates that the Maoist trade unions are against democracy and freedom. Everybody knows people working on the public transportation come from economically lowest class who barely make two square meals. And I think people working down there are never aware of their rights, rather are indoctrinated. I think they need more economic opportunities than other things.

Trade unions turn out to be rude and overtly irrational when they start practicing coercive power. In Nepali context, they function as a mechanism created to fulfill various illogical political demands. This is attained through the 'dark-room' negotiation between the so-called trade unionists and entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs illicitly pay lofty amounts to the unionists, which is used to further escalate the problem. Entrepreneur cannot escape this 'mouse trap' because s/he does not have choice and has to run the industry.

What is crippling is the fact that these trade unions aim at controlling production of any industry. Indeed, where has trade unions been productive? Maoist trade union's illogical restriction of the movement of the people is one example. Otherwise, no one obstructs economic activities to fulfill political goals.

The April 2006 movement elevated yet another day off on Nepal's calendar, the Trade Union Holiday on May 1. But will it be relevant to celebrate such a day amidst such bad representation?

Krishna Neupane

Minbhawan, Kathmandu

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With yet another blow to the individuals. One of the current ruling party in Coalition Government of Nepal, CPN Maoist is learned to ban the 'Annual Beauty Pageant'. This is ridiculous attempt  to curtail individual liberty and freedom.  Today they are trying to ban Beauty pageant, tomorrow they would ban clothing and next day they'd just ban every thing. How funny would it be to imagine a country sandwiched between China and India to be regulated a lot...and isolated from the world economy. Would that make any sense?

This attempt going against the individual freedom has to be stopped! This is direct threat to freedom because Maoist have internal links with Revolutionary Internatinal Movement (RIM) and other terrorist groups responsible to bomb Indian Parliament in 2001.

Militarily or Economically Nepal might not be threat to USA or the West but defintiely it is to India and China, we have to stop it to give our citizens better outlook to the world.

Nepal has recently experienced a reemergence of communist force. 

Traditionally, communism in Nepal is not a new phenomena since 1950s, when world was divided into three flanks- Allies, Soviet Union and the Non Voilence Movement spearheaded by Indian Prime Minister J. Nehru.   Nehru being a traditional socialist had greater impact on Nepali politics. 

During 1950s most of the current Nepali politicians were educated in India. Obviously this led to socialistic coalition. But more than that most of the current technocrat, bureaucrat and so-called intellectuals received their education in the USSR.   So we have doctors, engineers or other experts who defend 'communism' or 'collectivization'. 

India prior to 1990 had 'Hinduvta Growth', meaning 2% growth rate.  And concurrently impacted Nepali economy.  Even if the visionary leaders like King Mahendra tried to compensate it.  Most of the economic planning concept were borrowed from Indian or Soviet planning models.  The reengineering of the economy was attempted by Dr. Prakash C. Lohani in 1985 as a finance minister who liberalized the financial market by opening up to the foreign investors. Ever since then our economy has been under constant deregulation, but alarmingly at slow pace.

Even if the discouraging rate of deregulation was attempted and subsequent accession to the World Trade Organization has opened up the Nepali economy to the world at the astonishing level. Nepal now faces a new challenge 'Communists in Power' . Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) which has ultra root of communism has recently joined the Nepali government and importanly it now controls the Ministry of Information and Communication.  And this party believes on the violence, intimidation, torture and extortion.

They rampantly kill people. Fundamentally they do not believe on private property and individual responsibilty.