Kathmandu: Yet another headache is on the cards for Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala. This trouble is coming in the form of yet another Nepal Bundh scheduled for May 31 this month sponsored by some ethnic communities and regional organizations which the organizers claim to have been arranged for protesting against the Supreme Court’s verdict made some two years back that rejected the regional and ethic dialects as a medium for official business in the country.
“We will protest tooth and nail against this black-day judgement made by the apex court some two years ago”, say the agitation organizers.
Interestingly, this Nepal bundh coincides with the twentieth session of the Nepalese parliament which is predicted to be more chaotic than the previous one if the Prime Minister does not resign prior to that session.
The impending Nepal bundh could well become a show of strength for the organizers aimed at hinting at what they call “chauvinistic Brahminic rulers” and would also be a moment for exhibiting the ethnic and the regional solidarity against the official Nepali language.
It would not be very surprising if the Maoists’ insurgency back this “black-day” as most of the insurgents housed by the Maoists belong to this set of ethnic tribes who feel completely alienated by the KHAS rulers.
The decision to this effect was arrived at this Sunday by the “Community and Regional Front Coordination Committee” and has been signed by one time famous leader Suresh Ale Magar.
To recall, Mr. Magar had been arrested by the Koirala regime some time back under the pretext of supporting the Maoists insurgency. However, later the government under heavy popular pressure released him.
As if this were not enough, the ANFSU-revolutionary-a students wing of the radical communists, too have declared that they would force the boarding schools a closure for a week in protest of the school men making education a business taxing the innocent and the illiterate guardians.
Things appear that the Koirala regime will have to bear the brunt of all sets of pressures.
However, Koirala appears ready to face all these visible or invisible threats to his chair.