CIAAs conclusion invite various interpretations

Kathmandu: The Lauda investigating authority-the CIAA- opened the Pandora’s box. All sorts of evils have come out. However, this time the box managed to kick out a few noted corrupts of the country, more so seated in the RNAC, who had been gulping the “monetary gains” from the airliner in the name of the wet lease whether it be of the Lauda or the China South West airliner deal.

Thanks the CIAA that daringly even implicated subtly a sitting Prime Minister of the nation and served a sort of “warning” to the high post of the Premier suggesting him not to “repeat” such mistakes or even “blunders”.

Interpretations may vary from person to person. It could also be given a twist suiting to one’s political affiliations. But the fact is that the Prime Minister has not been spared from the Lauda scam.

“Thanks the CIAA that it honored the post of the nation’s Premier or it could have implicated the occupant of the post in the said deal and produced at the Apellate court of Patan district”, said a Lawyer to this paper.

However, the lawyer added that if the CIAA had directly mentioned the name of Koirala, a sort of anarchy would have instantly prevailed in the nation. “What the CIAA did at this critical juncture is simply what should have been done”, the lawyer further said.

Other constitutional experts and renowned lawyers of the nation think that the court can still summon Prime Minister for interrogation should the court decide to do so.

The general impression is that the Prime Minister must not feel that he has been awarded a sort of “clean chit”. But instead the Premier has been “warned”. There is a big difference in the use of the two set of different words indeed.

“A person is warned for his conduct(s) only when the person in the past has committed mistakes. So this warning to the Prime Minister has been served by the CIAA to make him feel that he did wrong and that from now onwards he would refrain from repeating past mistakes of the sort made in the Lauda air deal”, commented a constitutional expert on condition of anonymity.

Contrary to this naked truth, a set of Prime Minister’s close aides like minister Govind Raj Joshi, Mahesh Acharya and brother Sushil prefer to interpret in a different manner.

It is this set that tells Koirala that the CIAA gave him a clean chit and that he need not resign.

Undoubtedly, it is this special set which is to benefit if Koirala continues as Premier.