Two headlines on the front pages of the Thursday editions of two national dailies proved just how confusing Nepali politics is.
I don’t know about you, but the Donkey has given up reading the papers to try to make head of tail of the riddle wrapped within an enigma that are the Maobaddies. Chairman Awesomeful has tried to appease his arch-rival Comrade Red Flag, who resigned from his vice-chairman post by offering to kick him upstairs with the title of ‘Senior Leader’. PKD must have got this idea when he air-dashed to Singapore with wife Sita last week, because it was LKY who was once given the title of Senior Minister and later Minister Mentor because they couldn’t find any other post for him. BRB has grudgingly accepted, but has dropped broad hints that he’d rather be called ‘Senior-most Leader’. What this has proven, yet again, is that there is no such thing as a resignation among Marxist-Leninist-Maoist parties. You either die a natural death as a card carrying member, or the party bumps you off.
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Unusually reliable sources tell the Ass that the real power struggle within the Cash Baddie Party is not about posts but is a race between PKD and BRB to be president of the republic one day. Having both been prime minister once, they have been there and done that. Therefore, the possibility of a party reunion, whether or not Baidya Bah will try to foil voting in November, indeed whether there will be elections at all, now hinge on the outcome of the Plenum that starts, even as we speak, on Friday.
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It looks like the Kill Raj gobarment is in a quandary about what to do about the new all-party Gol Mech since there isn’t a round table in the land with a circumference that can hold all 139 political parties. Either one has to be imported, or the partyless gonement of Regmi Sir will have to rent the National Stadium for the purpose. There is also a bit of a problem about what to call this new organism. How about: ‘Apparatus of Apartchicks’, or ‘Even-Higher Level Politicians Mechanism (E-HLPM)’?
So it looks like the Traffic Police are finally serious about making Nepalis less horny. This week alone, they amputated 1,000 horns from buses and trucks plying Kathmandu streets.
Bravo! Wish they’d show the same initiative in apprehending trafficked rhino horns, too.