Lok and Loktantra

If the current fiasco of Lok Man Singh Karki is not sending you chills down the spine, it should. You do not need a deep factual analysis to know this man is no fit for the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA). Two reasons of public record suffice: 

1. He was the chief secretary of the King's government at the time we were struggling to tranform this country into a republic. The commission formed to investigate the abuse of power during that movement found him guilty of "brutally suppressing the people´s movement and abusing his authority."

2. CIAA itself, based on the commision's report, had recommended against appointing this man to any public post. 

What we know is that the potbellied oligarchs of so-called four major political parties recommended this individual to lead the CIAA. The spineless government complied. Today in TV this is what we are seeing and hearing: 

- Mr. Sushil Koirala (oligarch from Nepali Congress): I think Mr. Karki should himself decide against taking the post as there has been much public outrage. I think the President should not appoint him as there has been a public outrage. (What do you yourself think, Mr. Koirala, of Mr. Karki BTW?)

- Mr. Madhav Kumar Nepal (oligarch from CPN UML): Mr. Karki should not be appointed. His party has submitted a letter to the President saying Mr. Karki should not be appointed. 

- Mr. Pushpa Kamal Dahal/Prachanda (oligarch from UCPN Maoist): UML proposed Mr. Karki's name. He has been recommended through a constitutional process. The president has no right to go against the recommendation. 

Feel free to draw the inferences.  

We have a government led by a chief justice. While appointing a person that has the power to investigate the abuse of authority, we are told this is the person that fits the best. Those who made the decision tell us they disagree with their decision and yet the decision should be made and enforced.

This is as loud as it needs to get to make us sleepless at night. That the aspiration of democracy is receding from our immediate reach. Imbecile might be the assessment these oligarchs make of us, outrage is the emotion we have at this moment.