Constitution assembly and constitution

Sunday, May 07, 2006
Constituent Assembly and Constitution
The meeting of Magar Sangh Central Committee has decided to form a Working Committee to prepare a concept paper on CA and Constitutional changes. I am the convener. Other members of the Committee are Trilok Singh Thapa, Sangini Rana, and Bhoj Bikram Budha. We had first round meeting today. Almost all Magar Studies Center members and many other Magar intellectuals were present. We have decided to prepare the paper on the following headings:
-Listing the key Magar issues/Major concerns of Magars to be addressed
-Interim Constitution
-Constituent Assembly
-Constitution re-writing
You are kindly requested to send in any type of information or your opinion on these subjects. We hope to present this paper within few weeks time in one of the seminar and then hand over to Magar Sangh.
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Towards peace

Towards peace
The Maoist insurgents have declared unilateral ceasefire on 3rd September 2005. But the government has not done so yet. The government has failed to recognize the demand of the people for peace. In this way the government has politically failed to grab the advantage of the opportunity of re-establishing its faith and image inside and outside the country. The government should have welcomed Maoist’s move and further appealed for everlasting peace by calling and preparing for talks and negotiations.
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First peace and then election

Tuesday, October 18, 2005
First peace then election
The main objective of having elections is to elect a representative or a political leader for the government in a free and fair manner. When there are no freedom to choose, when there are no good candidates or parties, and when there are no voters to vote then such election is no election; it is a folly. The basic prerequisites for election are the conducive situation prevailed by law and order, majority of voters, and candidates or the political parties. Therefore the first thing we need to do is to fulfill these preconditions. Let us have first peace then elections.
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Prerequisites of elections

Thursday, October 20, 2005
Prerequisites of elections
18 Oct 2005. The local municipality elections are scheduled to be held in Magh of this year and the general election for parliament has been slated by the end of next year i.e. end of Chaitra 2063. Sounds good! But the pertinent questions are: will these elections solve all the current political problems? Are we not going to resolve down imminent things before these elections? Two key issues remain to be addressed before these elections--the re-establishment of peace by prevailing law and order, and restructuring of the political system. What about the inclusive type of political system that we have been talking lately? And what about the proportionate representative election system associated with these issues? Don’t you think that these are prerequisites to any elections if we really wish to settle things once for all?
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Dedication for mankind

Monday, December 19, 2005
Dedication for mankind
14.12.2005. I attended the marriage ceremony of one of the orphan girls nursed, brought up, educated and solemnized as bride by Indira Rana Magar, Chair person of Prisoners Assistance Nepal. This girl was abandoned by her parents. This organization has been rescuing innocent children from prisons who had to live inside the jails with their convicted parents with out their own faults. Indira had established this organization five years ago. PA Nepal’s mission is to rid prisoners of unnecessary suffering and hardship, in particular the suffering experienced by innocent children and prisoners who are poor and disadvantaged. It wants to help transform prisons into places that work to help prisoners build worthwhile and rewarding futures.

There are fifty five children in her home at present. She is the mother of all these children. Indira was recently awarded Ashoka Fellowship for her dedication and devotion to her love and care for helpless children. She was also awarded Top Fifty Women of Nepal Award. She is also running a primary school for poor and orphan children. Her organization is entirely dependent on the donations of friends and supporters- not on any INGO. Looking at her determination, hard work and dedication, I felt myself very much selfish and petite in front of this great lady who has sacrificed her happiness and whole life for the sake of poor and needy children. My regards and best wishes to such a leader.
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Ethnicisation: A concern of all

Tuesday, January 03, 2006
Ethnisation: A concern of all
There was a seminar in Nepal (some seven-eight months before) ranging around the issues of the need, attempts, popularity of ethnicizing discourses in contemporary Nepal, the diversity of stakeholders and of their discourses on ethnicity, the shift of the'ethnic paradigm' during the last 15 years, ethnisation and its consequences, and ethnisation and de-ethnisation in Nepal's past. I understand that these types of discourses are definitely going to reinforce the mutual understanding, developing strategies, policies, and programs for the development and improvement of nationalities in and outside the country. The important fact that I would like to reiterate to be considered is these issues should not be the issues of ethnic minorities only but also of majorities. Therefore any attempts to be taken to development and improvement should be participative, inclusive-- accommodating all stakeholders.
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Stand on your feet

Friday, January 06, 2006
Stand on your feet
One should not be carried away by the whiffs and moods of others. We should not be the toy for others' amusement.People respond to promises and threats. One has to attain capacities--the power-- to promise or threaten. There are, of course, two ways of getting those capacities or power--peaceful or bloodshed. We all know by now that violence does even the justice unjustly. It is during the hours of frustration that one commits more serious mistakes. Therefore there is a need for caution and wisdom to pursue strategically, tactically and technically with speed(we are too slow to act by ourselves and bank heavily on others to do something for us).
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