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Of all the trips, Comrade Awesome's delegation to the UN is perhaps the most intriguing. Here is a guy who admits to having told his party members to execute class enemies with a bullet to the temple now posing as an apostle of the Buddha to "develop" Lumbini. After running into strong opposition first time around with the mouth-watering proposal to get the Chinese to invest three billion smackeroos to turn Lumbini into a Disney theme park, Chairman Supercalifragilistic has managed this time to give his group cross-party membership, included a banker, used the connection of Ban's mum in Korea to get a $2 million seed money and himself an appointment at UNHQ.
Besides upgrading to iPad 2, PKD's plan was also to meet US officials to charm them into thinking he is no longer a terrorist. But the mule's mole has it that until the Baddies cross their hearts and say they no longer believe political power flows out of the barrel of the gun, the Yanks are not going to bite the bullet, as it were. On the way back, PKD is supposed to stop by in the UK on a fundraiser among Non-returning Nepalis. But poor Prakash ("Son Also Rises") Dahal is not going to be accompanying Dad since Awesome Jr messed up his visa application.
Rumour has it BRB agreed to let PKD to officially head the Lumbini project (and even sanctioned payment for his delegation trip out of state coffers) to get his party chairman off his hair for the next week or so. He seems to know something we don't: that the APECF is just another name for as asset management consultancy that advises the Supreme Leader about his investment portfolio. BRB's prime agenda now is to hold on to the reins by hook or by crook, mostly by crook. Give the man a break, he is keeping himself busy personally inspecting toilets in Mugling. By the way, most incoming calls on the PM's 1111 hotline are apparently hoax, including a guy who calls repeatedly and barks like a dog.
It takes murderers to pardon a murderer. Now that the newly-expanded cabinet has decided to give amnesty to Balkrishna Dhungel (the guy to bumped off a neighbour for having an inter-ethnic affair with one of his female relatives in Okhaldhunga) it looks like all human rights violators are going to go scot free under the CPA provision that political manslaughter is kosher. So that was why BRB and his attorney general were in such a hurry to meet the president last week, to make sure the prez realises he has to approve the pardon if the cabinet so decides. Moral of the story: it's ok to murder someone you don't like and retroactively justify it by saying he was a class enemy. Erstwhile royal military types are awfully quiet about Dhungel's pardon because this would make them eligible for similar amnesty. What? Did I hear someone at the back say "transitional justice"?
Of the 19,000 or so ladakus in the camps, there are only 14,000 left, and the party is trying to round up everyone so they can collect their 7 laks. It's turned out to be more difficult than they thought: many are in Malaysia, some have gone to India, and the remaining have gone from being underground to joining the underworld and are more interested in karods than laks.
Wassup? There is no load-shedding these days? Turns out the Energetic Minister is draining Kulekhani because he doesn't know how long he will be minister, and he wants to heap the blame on his successor who will inherit an empty reservoir.
