Former Education Minister Ram Chandra Kushwaha, who was sacked after being investigated for selling relief teachers’ vacancies for up to Rs 300,000, and who almost got a $120 million education program scrapped, said he was innocent at the Reporters Club in Kathmandu Today. Nepalnews writes:
A day after being recalled from the cabinet over corruption charges, then education minister and leader of Terai Madhes Lokatantrik Party (TMLP), Ram Chandra Kushwaha, today cried foul against the party’s decision and denied any wrongdoing while in office.
Speaking at the Reporters Club, Kaushwaha said he did not go against the laws to take decisions and that the party recalled him without asking him once over the charges against him.
The Finance Ministry has refused to reimburse the expenses incurred during Nepali Congress President Girija Prasad Koirala’s treatment in Singapore because his daughter, Foreign Minister Sujajta Koirala, failed to produce receipts. Nagarik writes:
The Foreign Ministry had sent an Rs 16 million invoice to the Finance Ministry four days for Koirala’s treatment cost in Singapore. However, the Finance Ministry refused to approve the fund saying it would be considered corruption to sanction funds without receipts.
It was reported that Foreign Minister Koirala splurged lavishly while accompanying her father to Singapore. She stayed in the presidential suite of one of the most expensive hotels in Singapore and rented a limousine to ferry her around, racking up an expense of Rs 100,00 daily.
And remember those Nepal Electricity Authority vehicles that were being used by political leaders for personal purposes? NEA employees had ‘seized’ one of such vehicles used by CPN-UML leader KP Oli. Apparently, Oli used the cover of the night and help of Nepal Police to ‘recover’ the vehicle. From the topsy-turvy land, the Kathmandu Post writes:
Go back to previous pageCPN-UML leader K.P. Oli’s act of ‘recapturing’ a government-owned vehicle has drawn flak from employees of the Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA).
The condemnation came after police on Tuesday took the four-wheeler under their control from the NEA premises and handed it back to the former home minister.
The NEA employees last week retrieved the Nissan car, which was at Oli’s disposal. The UML leader had blamed the Maoists for the seizure.
Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils — no, nor the human race, as I believe — and then only will this our State have a possibility of life and behold the light of day.
First thing comes first and let me tell you this. I do not know who this Nilab is but it is evident from his writing that he is one of those well fed, well clad, oily and smooth skinned kid who lives in on eof those 3-story bungalows of Kathmandu, equipped with the latest furniture and kitchen sets from Europe and served by servants and guards. It is also obvious from his writing that he must have received his education in either one of those those private schools in Kathmandu or somewhere in the US or Europe. I would not be surprised if he is also a Citizen of either Canada or the US or Australia.
Unfortunately, it seems that despite the good life of aristocrats that he has been enjoying and despite the good education he received, Nilab is also an ignorant person, with some degree of cynicism, as he fails to address the reason as to why those Maoists were forced to take up the arms.
Let us not talk of about his defence of the army that proved to be useless and treacherous to the nation. Where was his army when the king and his family was murdered? Was not the army responsible for the safety of the King and his family and for the protection of the constitution of the nation? Well let us assumed that the army was eluded by the murderers. But where was the army during the investigation of that heinous crime? Why did not it cooperate with the investigation of that heinous crime? Instead, why did it side with those who were the main suspects of the crime? I am talking about the person who ascended to the throne in the aftermath of the crime and the person who was the prime minister and defence minister at that time? Do you think that it was the right act for a army that have sworn an oath to protect the monarchy and its constitution, yet support men who ascended to the power in the aftermath of the crime and are key suspects? Also, please tell me –why did the army interfere the mass protest against the government in the aftermath of the crime of royal massacre and by doing so it went against the people whom it swore to protect?
Next, you seem not to notice the fact that most general and colonials of Nepal army got millionaires during the period of the civil war and they were not in the favour of ceasing the war. This army which you defend so much is not loyal to Nepal my friend. After all if it was loyal to Nepal and its people it would not salute an Indian citizen as a head of the state of Nepal. Nor, it would allow to pass a act that granted nepali citizenship to millions of Indian nationals and Biharis.
No, my dear, you are not being careful and objective in fanning your hatred here, and it seems that you hate and despise the poor, haggard malnourished people of Nepal, whom you are used to treat as “servant caste”. Also, it seems that you approve corruption and misuse of office for personal gain. Probably you are from one of those corrupt, treacherous families who sold Nepal to Imperial India? While sing her patriotic songs? In which country do you live and in of which country you have taken Citizenship I wonder? It is very unlikely that you live in Nepal.
Unfortunately the reply by Abe Boris was placed in the wrong thread. If you click on the name Nilab from the comments on the left or the link below you can see what Abe Boris is responding to.
http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/02/24/combatting-corruption/#comment-894
PS Nepali Times. I have noticed this problem often. It is easy to get confused unless people click on those name links before replying. How about adding a note explaining this above and below the comments column on the left?
Another suggestion: the comments editor used for articles should also be provided for blogs to make it easier to use boldface, links etc.
Of course I meant to say the comments on the right, not the left. Nepali politics is so confusing
Comrade Boris, welcome to planet earth. Once you have had some refreshments please feel free to entertain yourself with some fresh and exciting conspiracy theories. Once tired of all of that, please turn off the lights and get yourself a life. Because, frankly, I don’t care about having an argument after all what am I going to counter this with. Alternative hallucination!!!!!!!