The coordinator of NESP (New Power) and former Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai has put forward the proposal of the elected executive head. In the first convention of the party which started in the capital from Sunday, Bhattarai put forward the concept of directly elected executive chiefs in the union and state.
He has put forward in the political report that there should be a full proportional direct legislative system. The two state and union elections have confirmed that the current Varnashankar parliamentary government and electoral system has not been able to provide stability and good governance in the country. Therefore, as we have been saying since the creation of the constitution, there should be a directly elected executive head in the union and the state as soon as possible and a fully proportional but directly elected legislature,'' the report says, "There should be a directly elected executive president in the union and a directly elected chief minister in the state. The executive head should appoint ministers from outside the legislature on the basis of merit and inclusiveness.
He said that members of parliament and state assembly should focus on making rules and laws and alerting the government. Only if that happens, political stability will be maintained in the country and the distortions and anomalies seen now will end. There should be a system for proportionally electing MPs and state assembly members directly from their respective clusters rather than being appointed by parties and leaders," said Bhattarai.
In a 32-page long political report entitled 'New responsibilities of the new era: justification and basis of alternative politics', political instability has been caused by the absence of a directly elected executive head. "The directly elected executive presidential system, directly elected chief minister, fully proportional but directly elected legislature, federalism according to the specificities of the country, which has been debated since the time of the constitution, etc., also led to problems such as political instability, lack of necessary laws, and lack of service delivery. It is a matter of serious concern that the people's distaste for democracy is increasing due to these various reasons," the report said.
He stated that it was wrong to take the election of the Maoist center in the last general election. This caused irreparable damage to the party. Our adversaries, who were trying to create a newly born new party, got an opportunity to spread confusion among the masses. The public was confused about our alternative political identity. We could not tear it," he said. "Looking back now, we have to accept that instead of taking the election symbol of a regional party, we should have taken an independent symbol or should not have contested the election. Soon after that, the attempt to form an alliance with the left-wing parties for the 2074 House of Representatives elections only tarnished the party's image.
He said that because diplomatic initiatives are the main way to solve the political and economic problems between Nepal and India, strong nationalism should be abandoned. "Specifically, the issue of efficiently solving the structural problems created by the open border with India and the increasing dependence since the Sugauli-Treaty can be very challenging. For this reason, we must pay special attention to be self-sufficient in food security and energy security, diversify international economic relations, and protect and promote economic nationalism by solving the history and border issues with India in an efficient diplomatic manner. There is a pretentious tendency, we have to correct it in the next era. We must firmly understand that the totality of geography, people, economy is the nation and nationality. Nepali Congress is the main representative of the liberal democratic trend that prioritizes individual freedom and advocates a capitalist open market economy. Speaking of democratic socialism, it has a significant base in the country as it has been connected with the democratic movement since 2007 and people and communities of different political trends have been joining, he said in the report, but since the time of BP Koirala, it has not been able to show much progress and innovation in ideological, political and programmatic ways. Even though he has led power many times, he has not been able to bring about qualitative transformation in the country's political, economic, administrative, social and cultural sectors.
He mentioned that the leaders of the Congress are always connected with corruption and irregularity.
He says that even though the Communist Party of Nepal has advanced the communist trend in Nepal, they have also gone on the wrong path. "Communist wing represented by different groups of 'Nepal Communist Party' such as UML, Make has a considerable influence in the country," he wrote, "but despite being in power many times, the leadership of this wing is unable to solve the serious structural problems of the country, there is no identity in words and actions, their leaders and high-level workers are involved in various corruptions, irregularities, etc., so the common people are not able to feel any difference between the Congress and the Communists."
The leaders of the Maoist center have accused corruption, irregularity and brokering of the power center.
"There is no fundamental difference between the UML and the Maka because the original leadership of Maka, built on the foundation of a sacrificial people's war, is increasingly caught in the quagmire of corruption, irregularities, power centers and class-upliftment," he pointed out in the report. It cannot be expected to last.'
He has claimed that the main need of Nepal in the immediate concrete context is the rapid economic transformation and the fulfillment of the unfulfilled aspirations of the new generation, which cannot be fulfilled by communists of any brand.
The RPPA, which takes a revivalist developmentist edge, has mentioned that it advocates a religious state and monarchy. "As any society is made up of progressive, status quo and backward thinking people, it is natural for there to be some percentage of backward thinking people in Nepal, which has been democratized late in history," he analyzed, "We should believe that the vast majority of Nepalis with the consciousness of the 21st century will be oriented towards the bright age and not the dark age."
Ethnic/regional identity parties are being born and formed. This trend has been seen especially in Madhesi, tribal and Tharu majority areas. In an underdeveloped and complicated geopolitical situation like Nepal, ethnic/regional problems can only be solved by national power of an inclusive character. Therefore, over time, it can be assumed that ethnic/regional parties will be united or split," says Bhattarai's political report.
Nepal Samajwadi Patia has stated that a new power has been formed, mentioning the emergence of new/alternative parties and forces in various ways to fulfill the new tasks of the new era. First of all, after the promulgation of the Constitution in the year 2072, the 'New Power Campaign' was started. Which is now in the form of NESPA (New Power),'' he claims, 'proclaimed a new/alternative power building campaign with a clear ideological-political direction by defining it as inclusive and participatory democracy with prosperity, good governance, federalism, independence and advanced socialism.'
wrote that in the subsequent stages, the Discretionary Common Party, National Independent Party, Janmat Party, Civil Liberation and others emerged.
'Various independent people have come forward at local levels. All aspects of all the forces and personalities that have emerged as an alternative to the old ideas, parties, leadership, programs, and styles are yet to be clarified,'' the report says, "however, the emergence of new/alternative forces should be taken positively in the situation where the general public and especially the youth are growing in extreme frustration and anger towards the old parties and leadership. Also, efforts should be made to cooperate and travel together to give the country a sustainable and forward-looking option.
In order to develop NESPA (New Shakti) as the leading force of alternative politics in the country in the future, he said that it should proceed by learning from the review of the new power campaign and the lessons of its positive and negative experiences.
In a democracy, parties are the carriers of good governance and prosperity. But the irony of Nepal is that the parties/leaders accustomed to the old parliamentary system could not absorb the fact that Nepal's democracy was made more advanced, more inclusive, more responsive to the people through the people's revolution and returned to the same old ritualistic practice and the game from election to election. Former Prime Minister Bhattarai has written, "What is more serious than that is that the leaders of the Maoists and regional/ethnic parties became more and more corrupt and disorganized after coming to power. . For them, the rise to power and exploitation of the state became just like the revenge of yesterday's revolution and movement.'
