Kathmandu: Even a lay man can now conclude that all was not well in the country. And if the same were to be told by the informed citizens then they would definitely have said that the nation was proceeding towards the brink.

Given the highly insensitive and irresponsible behaviors currently being exhibited by the ruling party and the opposition what becomes pretty clear is that their “declared stances” would soon push the country towards an abyss from where it would be really very difficult to bring the country back to the original track.

The manner the Opposition remains yet adamant over the voluntary resignation of the Prime Minister since four months or so and the outright rejection to their demand from the Prime Minister from the day one forces the intellectuals to conclude that the democratic system has gone in the wrong hands and that if the two set of fools were allowed to continue for long, only Almighty could be the savior.

In the process the nation has already paid both politically and economically since the beginning of the winter session this year which summarily ended up in cipher and hopefully the current session of the parliament will bag almost the same success.

The informed citizens pose questions to the congress and the opposition. Firstly, what the opposition will bag even if Koirala quits on his own? Will his ouster create an atmosphere conducive to the overall development of the nation?

In the same manner the question posed to the congress, more so to Koirala is: Why not he resigns when he fully understands that the national population possess some sort of allergy for him and his familial sort of corruption ridden rule? Why he rejects the appeal of the opposition and quits and that too in the name of consolidating and the strengthening of the system which he claims that he is the sole care-taker?

Perhaps both will not respond to these questions. However, intellectuals themselves reply on their behalf.

Firstly, the opposition has simply made a sort of prestige issue over their demand of the resignation of the nation’s Premier. They fully were aware of the fact that even if Koirala is replaced by any Tom, Dick or Harry, much will not change in the country and time permitting the opposition would in all likelihood bargain with the new establishment for some monetary or political concessions. If the new government head declines to honor their requests, the same method would again be applied for his ouster.

“The Opposition demand is not a demand put forth taking national considerations. It is just a whimsical decision taken some months back by the opposition which has become a prestige issue for them at this juncture because Koirala is a tough stuff”, commented a political analyst at the T.U late last week.

Some analyst even guess the continued overture of the UML with regard to the resignation of Koirala to be the handy-work of his nearest-dearest political rival that is Krishna Prasad Bhattarai. And a clever Bhattarai manages all the opposition activities against Koirala presumably through his disciple Sher Bahadur Deuba and Monsieur Madhav Nepal-the UML General Secretary.

To recall, Bhattarai and Mr. Nepal enjoy the best of their relationship.

Regarding Koirala’s wish for the enhancement of the Prime Minister’s post in this system, as he recently claimed, is more guided by his personal lust to stick to the chair and nothing else.

“Those who have been closely monitoring Koirala’s functioning style could say that as and when his chair is threatened from within or without, he talks of “‘institutionalization” of the Prime Minister’s throne, added the same analyst on condition of anonymity.

Summing up, the fault lies in the system in the sense that the voters can’t recall their representatives even if their men in the parliament or in government do not function and become corrupt. Save a sizeable percentage of the population possessing political affiliations to this or that political parties, the rest have become tired of the ugly, unacceptable and the non-performing leaders belonging to the Congress, the UML and the others as well.

However, a day will soon come when the voters will retaliate in a manner perhaps not in the imagination of the men ruling the nation at the moment.

It is these lacunae which persist in the system that has apparently forced the common population to sympathize with the Maoists insurgents.