-Democrats in dilemma- People anxiously wait Royal Commission report!

June 13, 2001
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Kathmandu: The grief stricken Nepali population over the ghastly killing of their beloved King and Queen on June 1 evening at the Royal Palace is still in a sheer dilemma regarding the actual happening inside the Palace on that fateful evening.

Rumors, counter rumors backed by national and international media speculations all have compounded the mystery lying behind the killing of the Nepali Royales on June 1.

Most unfortunately, in the absence of any solid and plausible justification of the sad event from the responsible government quarters, the reports emanating from the international media is creating havoc in the minds of the Nepali people who are by and large forced to believe the real-unreal accounts supplied by them. The net result has been that the people stand largely confused.

The government’s hands apparently are tied for the Royal Commission headed by CJ K.P.Upadhyaya is yet to submit its final report to King Gyanendra. In all probability and if things go smoothly the Upadhyaya Commission will make public its “findings” of the killing of the Nepali Royales by Thursday evening.

In essence it is this report that is yet to be submitted by the Royal Commission instead of making the Nepali population happy rather has made them anxious.

A sort of fear psychosis has gripped the entire peace loving Nepali people who think what would happen if the “findings” of the report by the Upadhyaya Commission is not a convincing one and reject to support the said findings summarily? Similarly, how the government under Koirala will react to the agitating population if they come to the streets and challenge the findings of the Royal Commission?

The fact is that the majority of the population now exhibit their reluctance in accepting King Dipendra to be the killer. However, if the circumstantial evidences and the press interviews of the eye witnesses of the June I calamitous episode inside the Royal Palace were to be taken into account then it becomes clear that the Commission will submit presumably a report implicating King Dipendra.

The mass, read the Nepali citizens, appear not to be in a mood to accept this theory.

The Royal Commission apparently too is in problem on how to dump all the charges on a person who had already been declared the King of this Nation? Is it possible or even justifiable to implicate a personality who was so popular and loved one among the population?

The story does not end here. The Upadhyaya findings would also be very difficult to digest or reject for the democrats of this nation.

Understandably, in a democracy one has to trust and respect the findings of a commission that is headed by nation’s Chief Justice. The CJ in a democracy must be considered as a truly non-partisan and most revered figure whose findings must be a binding one to all and sundry. However, chances are that if by chance the Commission implicates King Dipendra then the people will be put in trouble and a sort of dilemma will instantly grip their minds on how to accept it or even reject it.

Thus it is this dilemma which has made the population to think of the unthinkable in the aftermath of the submission of the report. Could be a fear psychosis only.

Let us all hope that the report satisfies all and no untoward incident grips the nation. After all the sad event has happened and there is no justification in weakening the already weakened nation.