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Balbir K Punj
Former world chess champion and then Fidé president Max Euwe had reportedly exclaimed, after being defeated by a Nepalese competitor in the late 1970s, "Alekhine lives in Nepal!" The homegrown chess master was Baburam Bhattarai, the Communist ideologue, and later a senior standing member of the politbureau of Communist Party of Nepal. Mr Bhattarai, who abandoned a promising career in chess to pursue politics, says chess is to Communists what water is to duck. According to him, Communists were chess cognoscenti.
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It is, therefore, hardly surprisingly that we are today witnessing a great game of political chess in Nepal. Those who thought that ousting the monarchy was the objective of the Communists were obviously mistaken. Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala, on his recent visit to New Delhi, admitted his Government was buckling under pressure from the Communists.
"Kerensky lives in Kathmandu" was my gut feeling about Mr Koirala, when King Gyanendra reinstated the dissolved Pratinidhi Sabha on April 25 last, and a day later appointed Mr Koirala as the Prime Minister. Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky (1881-1970), the revolutionary who was instrumental in toppling the Czarist authority, served as Prime Minister of the Russian Provisional Government, until Bolsheviks took over power. Kerensky had to spend the remaining part of his life in exile until he died in the US.
Although the Bolsheviks disbanded the Constituent Assembly of the Kerensky Government, the Maoists of Nepal are apparently vouching for the same. On April 27, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoists) declared a three-month unilateral truce with the new Government. Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal (alias Prachanda) said the truce was for facilitating the ongoing "people's struggle" for a Constituent Assembly and a democratic republic "to lead the struggle to a historic conclusion" and for encouraging the parliamentary political parties to announce the formation of a Constituent Assembly. The Maoists recently showed the clout they enjoy by forcing the suspension of the Pratinidhi Sabha until the Budget session in July; and getting the Government to release 190 jailed Maoists.
We had seen what kind of democracy there was in German Democratic Republic (East Germany) or the one that exists in Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). We also saw what kind of 'ceasefire' Maoists extended. On May 9, a group of Maoists abducted five personnel of armed force police from Bhumahi in Nawalparasi district. Leaders of the Seven-Party Alliance allege that the Maoists, in contravention to 12-point understanding, are continuing with extortion and atrocities. Nepali Congress legislator Devendra Raj Kandel, while addressing the Pratinidhi Sabha, said that Maoists had demanded Rs 100,000 from him and still issuing threats to his associates in the Maheshpur village in the Nawalparasi district for not paying the sum.
Last month, 12 private banks of Nepal received copies of a letter from Anant, the chief of the special central command of the CPN-M asking for a 'donation' of Rs 25,000,000. Over a dozen industries were shut down in Birganj after Maoist-affiliated All-Nepal Trade Union Federation (ANTUF) began to assume more and more militant attitude. On May 22, the house of Nepali Congress leader from Rautahat district, Jogendra Sahani, was bombed and his two sons abducted, who were later killed by the Maoists. The Nepalese Government is now considering writing to the United Nations to get the ceasefire monitored.
The Maoists apparently want a Constituent Assembly poll - a choice between monarchy and republic. King Gyanendra is being stripped of his privileges, and it will be hardly surprising if he goes Czar Nicholas's way, as the Maoists gain power. Nepal has also lost its "Hindu" appellation. There is high probability of this being done at the behest of the ISI. The road to establish Asian caliphate, possibly under Osama bin Laden, runs through the Himalayan highway on which Hinduism's soft underbelly, Nepal, is located.
There is a suspicious paradox in the behaviour of the Maoists. They claim that monarchy is the enemy of peace in Nepal. Yet, even after divesting the monarch of virtually all his powers, the Maoists of Nepal are still active in Bihar threatening to blow up the State Assembly, Secretariat and official residence of the Chief Minister apart from other public property. Does this not betray their totalitarian agenda? Prachanda, like Lenin, might believe in giving a long rope to Mr Koirala, the modern Kerensky; only so that he hangs himself.
<b>If there is Bolshevism in Nepal, Wahabism is playing hide and seek in the Human Resource Development Ministry in New Delhi. When Mr Arjun Singh introduced 27 per cent reservation in institutes of higher learning, there were reasons to believe he was dividing Hindu society. His 'de-toxification' of history text-books, Rs 48 crore grant to Jamia Millia Islamia to set up the Jawaharlal Nehru West Asia Study Centre, preservation of 'minority' character of Aligarh Muslim University, five per cent reservation to Muslims in jobs and services, proposal to affiliate madarsas to universities were all evidence of where his heart lay. Now it has come out into the open after he spent nine days in Saudi Arabia and UAE to forge "academic ties between Arab countries and India".</b>
Mr Arjun Singh's visit to King Abdul Aziz University, which has exported Wahabism throughout the world in the last two decades, confirms the worst suspicius about him. The $30 million grant by the House of Saud to build a state-of-the-art library in Jamia is galling. The 'Arab Cultural Centre', proposed to be established at Jamia, at the cost of UGC, is no naïve decision. The emphasis would be on Saudi Arabia, not Algeria, Egypt, Syria or Jordan. All over the world, people are studying Saudi Arabia, the hub of Wahabi Islam, for security and strategic reasons. But Mr Singh wants it to be studied culturally. No non-Muslim of India has any interest in studying Saudi Arabia thus. Easy to guess, we would soon become another Islamist bastion.
<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>'Secularism' is slowly reshaping the landscape of India in an 'Islamist' way. Mr Singh's decision vis-Ã -vis reservation is not a simple boil but cancer. I wish the "Youth for Equality" realised the same. Perhaps Mr Singh is leading the second Wahabi movement, like Shah Waliullah's son Shah Abdul Aziz, whose purpose was to restore Islamic rule in India. </span>
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Pioneer.com
Balbir K Punj
Former world chess champion and then Fidé president Max Euwe had reportedly exclaimed, after being defeated by a Nepalese competitor in the late 1970s, "Alekhine lives in Nepal!" The homegrown chess master was Baburam Bhattarai, the Communist ideologue, and later a senior standing member of the politbureau of Communist Party of Nepal. Mr Bhattarai, who abandoned a promising career in chess to pursue politics, says chess is to Communists what water is to duck. According to him, Communists were chess cognoscenti.
Â
It is, therefore, hardly surprisingly that we are today witnessing a great game of political chess in Nepal. Those who thought that ousting the monarchy was the objective of the Communists were obviously mistaken. Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala, on his recent visit to New Delhi, admitted his Government was buckling under pressure from the Communists.
"Kerensky lives in Kathmandu" was my gut feeling about Mr Koirala, when King Gyanendra reinstated the dissolved Pratinidhi Sabha on April 25 last, and a day later appointed Mr Koirala as the Prime Minister. Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky (1881-1970), the revolutionary who was instrumental in toppling the Czarist authority, served as Prime Minister of the Russian Provisional Government, until Bolsheviks took over power. Kerensky had to spend the remaining part of his life in exile until he died in the US.
Although the Bolsheviks disbanded the Constituent Assembly of the Kerensky Government, the Maoists of Nepal are apparently vouching for the same. On April 27, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoists) declared a three-month unilateral truce with the new Government. Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal (alias Prachanda) said the truce was for facilitating the ongoing "people's struggle" for a Constituent Assembly and a democratic republic "to lead the struggle to a historic conclusion" and for encouraging the parliamentary political parties to announce the formation of a Constituent Assembly. The Maoists recently showed the clout they enjoy by forcing the suspension of the Pratinidhi Sabha until the Budget session in July; and getting the Government to release 190 jailed Maoists.
We had seen what kind of democracy there was in German Democratic Republic (East Germany) or the one that exists in Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). We also saw what kind of 'ceasefire' Maoists extended. On May 9, a group of Maoists abducted five personnel of armed force police from Bhumahi in Nawalparasi district. Leaders of the Seven-Party Alliance allege that the Maoists, in contravention to 12-point understanding, are continuing with extortion and atrocities. Nepali Congress legislator Devendra Raj Kandel, while addressing the Pratinidhi Sabha, said that Maoists had demanded Rs 100,000 from him and still issuing threats to his associates in the Maheshpur village in the Nawalparasi district for not paying the sum.
Last month, 12 private banks of Nepal received copies of a letter from Anant, the chief of the special central command of the CPN-M asking for a 'donation' of Rs 25,000,000. Over a dozen industries were shut down in Birganj after Maoist-affiliated All-Nepal Trade Union Federation (ANTUF) began to assume more and more militant attitude. On May 22, the house of Nepali Congress leader from Rautahat district, Jogendra Sahani, was bombed and his two sons abducted, who were later killed by the Maoists. The Nepalese Government is now considering writing to the United Nations to get the ceasefire monitored.
The Maoists apparently want a Constituent Assembly poll - a choice between monarchy and republic. King Gyanendra is being stripped of his privileges, and it will be hardly surprising if he goes Czar Nicholas's way, as the Maoists gain power. Nepal has also lost its "Hindu" appellation. There is high probability of this being done at the behest of the ISI. The road to establish Asian caliphate, possibly under Osama bin Laden, runs through the Himalayan highway on which Hinduism's soft underbelly, Nepal, is located.
There is a suspicious paradox in the behaviour of the Maoists. They claim that monarchy is the enemy of peace in Nepal. Yet, even after divesting the monarch of virtually all his powers, the Maoists of Nepal are still active in Bihar threatening to blow up the State Assembly, Secretariat and official residence of the Chief Minister apart from other public property. Does this not betray their totalitarian agenda? Prachanda, like Lenin, might believe in giving a long rope to Mr Koirala, the modern Kerensky; only so that he hangs himself.
<b>If there is Bolshevism in Nepal, Wahabism is playing hide and seek in the Human Resource Development Ministry in New Delhi. When Mr Arjun Singh introduced 27 per cent reservation in institutes of higher learning, there were reasons to believe he was dividing Hindu society. His 'de-toxification' of history text-books, Rs 48 crore grant to Jamia Millia Islamia to set up the Jawaharlal Nehru West Asia Study Centre, preservation of 'minority' character of Aligarh Muslim University, five per cent reservation to Muslims in jobs and services, proposal to affiliate madarsas to universities were all evidence of where his heart lay. Now it has come out into the open after he spent nine days in Saudi Arabia and UAE to forge "academic ties between Arab countries and India".</b>
Mr Arjun Singh's visit to King Abdul Aziz University, which has exported Wahabism throughout the world in the last two decades, confirms the worst suspicius about him. The $30 million grant by the House of Saud to build a state-of-the-art library in Jamia is galling. The 'Arab Cultural Centre', proposed to be established at Jamia, at the cost of UGC, is no naïve decision. The emphasis would be on Saudi Arabia, not Algeria, Egypt, Syria or Jordan. All over the world, people are studying Saudi Arabia, the hub of Wahabi Islam, for security and strategic reasons. But Mr Singh wants it to be studied culturally. No non-Muslim of India has any interest in studying Saudi Arabia thus. Easy to guess, we would soon become another Islamist bastion.
<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>'Secularism' is slowly reshaping the landscape of India in an 'Islamist' way. Mr Singh's decision vis-Ã -vis reservation is not a simple boil but cancer. I wish the "Youth for Equality" realised the same. Perhaps Mr Singh is leading the second Wahabi movement, like Shah Waliullah's son Shah Abdul Aziz, whose purpose was to restore Islamic rule in India. </span>
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