Caution must get priority It seems that the government is not showing keen interest in giving people the relief that they need, rather it is more focused on turning the previous government’s decisions upside down. The government will likely face inevitable consequences if the government pays heed to the advice given |by the other political parties as reported in “Govt. urged to drop Maoist censure motion” (THT, May 28). It is the need of time that it should scan the advice of other political parties and should take the suitable steps needed in the given situation. Moreover, it should prove itself as a CPN-UML government. Therefore, it should not work as a shadow government run by outside forces. As the coalition partners have advised the PM not to heed the Maoists’ “Sankalpa Prastav” and continue with the present CoAS, but these 22 parties failed to assess the consequences before advising the government. The CPN-UML-led government should not undermine UCPN-M and remember its role in the ongoing peace process. Instead, the government should focus on giving people relief and show it’s a government different than the previous one. Rather than devoting time and effort on quizzical works and decisions that will irritate the Maoists, it should win their hearts and bring them to the folds of consensus. S. Shrestha, via e-mail

Be honest It is indeed mockery of the people’s electoral exercise and mandate that the political leaders who have not been elected at all are coming to office. We now have a Prime Minister (like honorary non-academic Ph.D doctorate) who unlike Obama or Manmohan Singh has not been elected by the people. It will be sad if the Nepali Congress decides to send Sujata Koirala for any ministerial post. Their hollow pledge in their hypocritical speeches that they are not running after power or position can be compared to the crocodile’s tears. G.P.Koirala should take lesson from Sonia Gandhi who has decided not to make Rahul Gandhi a minister in the cabinet despite winning elecions consecutively. As long as nepotism and favouritism is not uprooted from the highest political leadership, we can never create a new democratic Nepal free from conservative feudalism, inequality and injustice. When the nation is striving to accomplish an inclusive Nepal with representation of all marginalized communities in the mainstream and all state organs, the wishes of G.P. Koirala reflects having a ‘status quo’ society with heirarchisation and exclusivisity for a few advantaged communities being represented always at the leadership helm. Dr. Chhering Yonzon Baluwatar

Save money The immediate cause of the current crisis of the country seems to be the Katawal episode. I would like to opine that the country does not need any army that is not expected to protect the frontier with the big giants of the World. India, China and Nepal should sign a tripartite treaty that guarantees the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Nepal. Failure to do so urgently would augment the seeds of violence in Nepal that would affect the prospects of unhindered emergence of Beijing and Delhi as the top power points of the World. The joint guarantee of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Nepal by China and India would also help to dissolve all the different armies under different commands in Nepal. All the money that is wasted in supporting different armies under different commands should be better used for creating foundations of economic revolution. VP Sayami Kathmandu

Disaster Apropos of the news report “MJF still at sixes, sevens” (THT, June 1), I am surprised that the political leaders who seem to be working for the people’s cause are themselves after power more than anything else. The leaders ought to be more accommodating and not come to “blows” when it comes to serving the people. I cannot understand why the leaders who command respect from the people stoop so low just to realize their petty personal selfish motives. It is high time that they also learnt to respect the people who voted for them so that they would do good for the public rather than fight to get ministerial berths. An ordinary person like me is depressed in seeing that leaders belonging to all the parties are more interested in getting hold of power rather than in seeing that the constitution gets written in time and the peace process receive due focus. Sukriti Sharma via e-mail