LETTERS: Performance deal

“Govt to sign performance deal with employees” (THT, July 21, Page 3), leaves out the service seekers and the harangued public out in the cold.

While the government signs performance contracts to implement its plans, policies and programmes it does not say anything about the white-shirted and navy-blue trouser-ed public servants’ responsibility and accountability towards the need of the real source of democratic power: the people.

Can the government – the incumbent or its successor – issue unbending orders to the public servants to address publics’ concerns and woes within a few hours without shamelessly asking for ‘bakshis’?

Bribes must be equated with treason and sedition and any public servants who beg for uncharitable alms must be caned in front of his family members.

This deal should be handed out to public servants without any delay.

Manohar Shrestha, Kathmandu

Small govt

Senior-most Deputy Prime Minister of the present government facing no confidence motion in the parliament, Bijaya Kumar Gachhadar representing Madhesi Janadhikar Forum-Democratic has given a hard blow to beleaguered Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli with a decision to forsake the coalition government and vote in favour of the no-confidence motion against the Prime Minister.

Many other parties like RPP, Janata Socialist Party etc have already joined NC and CPN Maoist Centre in the no-confidence motion indicating a very big jumbo size of the government under the premiership of Chairman Puspa Kamal Dahal “Prachanda” of the previously insurgent Maoist Party and now Maoist Centre Party.

Political careerism in Nepal is aimed at benefiting from joining the government no matter how costly they are to the country’s treasury.

Hopefully political careerism would be discouraged by extracting every cell of fat from the careerist leaders that are encouraged by the chance to fatten resulting into the growth of hundreds of parties without any new ideology.

All the political parties should be scrutinized by a team of experts in political science and scraped from the list of the political parties registered with the EC if they are found with no special political ideology.

I would like to opine that fund raising by the political parties should be banned. The growth of numerous political parties that come to the traders with call for financial support is a significant cause of the rising cost of our needs in the market.

Shop keepers do not go into business to lose their capital investment.

Naturally all the donations collected in most unhealthy ways by the political parties is added into the price of our daily needs that would have no chance of any control by the controlling agencies of the government.

Hopefully the next government would be a slim one that does not promote price rise in the market.

Kul Ratna Bajracharya, Kathmandu