Kathmandu: Rastriya Prajantantra Party Senior Vice President Rabindra Mishra has said that political parties as well as the king need to come to a common ground by learning from the past mistakes and to save and build the country.
Earlier, former king Gyanendra Shah in his message had called on people to support him to save the country for the sake of peace, progress and prosperity of the country. “Nepal’s existence is at risk. Our talented and capable citizens are leaving the country in large numbers every day. The sweat of the Nepalis is being shed not on their own soi but elsewhere,” the former king said, calling on people to support him to save the country.
Commenting on the message delivered by the former King, Mishra issued 12-point notes calling on all political parties not to take king’s message at face value. “It is not true that monarchy never made mistakes. But for every 10 mistakes the monarchy made there may have been about one thousand made by the political parties,” Mishra wrote. “If the big parties respond to the message of the king with arrogance and resort to name calling of the king like in the paste, the much-needed systemic overhauling of politics will not be peaceful,” he warned. “This will not do good to anyone.”
Mishra also called on India to review its policy and return to two-pillar policy of constitutional monarchy and multi-party democracy. “It will never do good to India that is aspiring to become a global power to have its next-door neighbor as weak, unreliable, unstable and become the battlefield of international geopolitics.”
The leaders of mainstream political parties in Nepal often react, sometimes in uncouth language, when former king issues messages commenting on the sorry state of affairs and asking the political parties for accountability and good governance.
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