A vicious cycle of election tickets to money and money to tickets

The deforestation of the forest is over, we have brought furniture worth billions. So let's focus on wood, wildlife, herbs that we can produce, take, use. If the Prime Minister, Minister of Finance, and relevant Ministers are committed, many improvements can be made in four to five years.

Jestha 1, 2081

Ghanshyam Bhusal

A vicious cycle of election tickets to money and money to tickets

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The minds of those who talk about development, prosperity, and economy are divided from many sides. Foreign donors are most concerned about our development. There are those who tell us, teach us and teach us. Then we will go by ourselves. Let's get rich by selling electricity, let's bring Chuche train, ship. Let me give you a small example of how our mind is confused by so many things.

One of my friends has gone to Gorakhpur for work from Bhairahawa. The work was not done in Gorakhpur, it had to be done until the next day. So he watched up to 4 movies in one day. At night when he sleeps, his mind starts wandering - the incident was one, the heroine came another, the hero came another, the dialogue was another. It's such a mess. He didn't remember a single film after that. So he didn't understand anything sequentially. We are also trying to learn everything together from everything that happened in the history of two/four hundred years of development. We are trying to learn together every work done by developed countries like America, Europe, Japan, China. Due to which our mind has become very confused. We must first get rid of this illusion. 

Prosperity, economic development is entirely a matter of the state. It's a political thing. America itself is gradually returning to 'Make America Great Again'. Is that some liberalism, some free trade or philosophy or nothing at all? America was 'great' yesterday. It is by protecting your enterprise that it became 'Great Again'. Britain or Germany were based on colonies at that time. They were always thinking of how to protect themselves even by plundering other colonies. In this way, no country has been without the protection of politics. 

The private sector is the private sector. Sometimes friends say - 'Give it to the private sector.' The private sector does nothing. If the state does not step on the feet of the private sector, if it does not protect it, then in which country has the private sector developed? Developed by LG or by Hyundai or Toyota? You do your own development, no one else does. If we don't take care of what can be done within our resources, history, culture, population, geopolitics, our development will continue like this. In this sense one should be free from these illusions. 

In today's context, it is the responsibility of the state to make the private sector a private sector. How does the state develop productive capital? What is the plan to employ your population? Because employment is not only a financial matter, employment is also a matter of making people. It is also a process of employing a population living in extreme poverty and backwardness in a remote area, bringing them into enterprise, learning, bargaining, knowledge and language learning. Therefore, the state had to resolve to provide employment and develop entrepreneurial capital. 

Ten years ago, Kantipur Dainik conducted a debate - Why Nepal could not be formed? was originally written by Sushil Sharma. I also participated in it. My conclusion was that, to create a , you need a character who creates a . In democracy, that character is politics. I wrote that the political parties have not become the parties that make the country. We are responsible for making the country. We are political people. MPs are elected by popular vote. MPs make laws from Parliament, form the government from here. And, we all run the state. We are employees under its umbrella. We are black market. We are bribers. I think that is the reason for not becoming Nepal. 

What will happen next? How to develop? They talk about big trains or ships, industry, North-South corridor. I'll start by building a warehouse. Let's build a godown that can store 500,000 tons of rice or food grains. And let's send technicians who can look at agriculture and animal husbandry in every municipality and ward. Let us ensure agricultural credit. Let us give 3 percent interest concession to the very poor, 5 percent to the middle class and not more than 7 percent to the agricultural industry, no matter how big. We have said that insurance will be made effective, but the companies have not worked in agricultural insurance. Prime Minister, ministers only make speeches, we have not done that. Now let's make it effective. 

Also, we have fixed support prices for sugarcane, wheat and paddy. But the government does not take a single grain of paddy at the support price. The cost of production is 2000-2200 per quintal, while the market price is also 2000-2200. After that, all the labor of the farmers there was wasted. Now the finance minister is in the budget, he can say, the prime minister can say - I can take two quintals, 10 quintals of rice from farmers at the support price or not.

If we start from here, in four-five years we can be self-sufficient in food, milk, curd, fish, meat. At least let's not confuse it by talking about other economic worlds. In a discussion, it was raised that no more than 15 percent or 10 percent savings should be kept. What is the attraction of the Black Market Act here? In Europe, there is a discount of up to 75 percent. In India it has started reaching 25 percent now. We are talking about 10-15 percent, that too is not giving money, we are playing numbers and gossiping. Let's be a little bolder about it. Now, by showing the production data, we have been saying that we have become self-sufficient in milk, fish and meat. Actually it's not. About 70 percent of the cost is on feed, 80 percent of which we bring from outside. And how are we independent? That's a useless statistic. Even if I submit it, my government does it or someone else's government submits it, it is wrong data. 

There is no happiness without us going to Chaklabandi. Foreigners coming in and building huge land banks will do nothing. Our complexity, history and land ownership do not allow that. While doing so, some meet as a group, some come individually and do chaklabandi. Let us help mechanize it. Now there is not even one bigha of farm, it is 4 kathajati. However, because he was related to the minister, he got a tractor. However, he does not plow the field, he goes to the river with a tractor and carries ballast. The country's subsidy is going here and there. We must stop this trend. In this way, if we go to Chaklabandi, we can turn the barren land that is growing in the hills or ends into production. In the jungle there are laws of the jungle. The deforestation of the forest is over, we have brought furniture worth billions. So let's focus on wood, wildlife, herbs that we can produce, take, use. If the Prime Minister, Minister of Finance, and relevant Ministers are committed, many improvements can be made in four to five years.

In this way, a foundation can be prepared for forest-based, mining-based and agriculture-based industrialization. Our industry should be protected somehow. Giving from our place is electricity. Let's industrialize projects like Chisapani. If necessary, take a loan for that. In this way, in 10-12 years, we can fundamentally end today's unemployment and economic dependency.

I have said, crony capitalism. This is for all capital earners. I said it in favor of those who could not even earn capital, could not venture. It is about developing national capital. Let us intervene a little in education and emphasize vocational technical schools and training. It should not be without manpower for that. Let's look at China and India, why it is like that is because of the people there. Politics will solve the problem of

ending. But how to solve the problem of politics itself? That too is done by political parties. In this sense, there is no need for a political party. It is necessary to overcome the vicious cycle that joining a political party means getting a ticket, getting a ticket means earning money, after earning money, getting a bigger ticket, earning more money. Otherwise, we will never be able to grow and eat in our own country.

(Edited part of the opinion presented by Bhusal, General Secretary of United Samajwadi Party, in the 'Basic Needs of Economy: Collective Commitment of Political Leadership' session under 'Kantipur Economic Summit-2024' organized by Kantipur Media Group in Kathmandu on Sunday.)

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