The Unity Convention of Non-Resident Nepali Association (NRNA) has started in Kathmandu. The convention is watched with great interest. The main reason for that is the issuance of the Supreme Court order with the aim of reuniting the divided union. Unfortunately, many Nepali unions have become victims of partisanship. Another organization that is being victimized in this way is the Non-Resident Nepali Association.

Why and how is nRNA helpless? Is there any way to get rid of the clutches of partisanship? If there are any alternatives, what could they be? This article will be based on this serofero.

It is estimated that the number of Nepalis who have migrated for employment, study and opportunity is about 8 million. The record of 2024 brings this figure closer to reality. Last year, 16 lakh 83 thousand have migrated for various purposes . The main destinations for employment are UAE, Saudi, Qatar and Malaysia, while for study, they go to Japan, Australia, America, Canada and the UK . In the years 2023 and 2024, the number of people going to study in the UK is 23 thousand 600 . Similarly, the data shows that the number of foreigners leaving or selling Nepali property to settle permanently is about 67 thousand in the last one year. It has been 32 years if we consider the year 2050/51 when the trend of Nepalese going abroad started. This period of time is more than about a generation . Therefore, last year the number of parents and children who took their children abroad due to permanent residence, growing up, etc. is 1 lakh 32 thousand . Some of these figures return students . However, as many students go for permanent opportunities, this also needs to be counted . These figures bring closer to the fact that there are 80 million migrant Nepalis.

Every 5 years in Nepal, there is an election of legislators who make laws and policies, i.e. the Federal House of Representatives. Out of total 275 members, 165 are directly elected and 110 representatives are elected proportionally. In a parliamentary constituency that is directly elected, 1 member of parliament is elected from an average of 19,000 voters, and on behalf of the 80 million Nepalis who are in exile, the parliament of Nepal that makes laws, policies and rules is lost? If someone who has never gone abroad, has never experienced the suffering of another country, how can he make laws and plans for the sake of Nepali migrants? Now how many innocent Nepalis are in foreign prisons? If the convicts are in Nepalese prisons, why can't they bring them to Nepal and keep them in their own country's prisons? After the citizens cross the border of Nepal, do all the responsibilities and duties of the Nepalese government end? Shouldn't the government be accountable to its citizens? Why is the government of a country where 30 percent of the country's economy is financed by remittances neglecting its responsibility towards its citizens?

If the government of Nepal is to be truly responsible and responsible towards the migrant Nepali workers, why don't we learn from what the progressive countries that have been managing according to the new era have been practicing for a decade and a half ago?

Lessons can be learned from Italy, France, Tunisia, Algeria, Cape Verde, Portugal, Mozambique, Colombia and Romania for the care, rights, rights and rescue of migrants living outside the country. These 10 countries have been representing migrant citizens directly in the parliament through migration. 

Democracy means to do what is chosen by more than 51 percent of people. The people can agree on the choice of the majority, that too until the next election. The electoral system that considers it a democracy and converts each person's vote into a parliament seat is the most important. If you want to study the electoral system, you have to consider the most leading French model in the world . In France, both the president and the prime minister are directly elected. In two-stage elections, i.e., if 50 percent cannot be achieved in the first election, the first and second-placed candidates are selected again in the next stage of the election . The French model electoral system has many dimensions. One of them is - about 2.5 million French citizens in exile elect and send 11 MPs to the House of Representatives from abroad. There are a total of 577 MPs from within France and from its colonial countries and special regions, including 566 and expatriate MPs.

Likewise, 12 senators in the upper house of France, the Senate, are indirectly elected by the advisers of expatriate French citizens. Knowing these rules may seem unnatural to us, so who was the creator of these rules? The person who brought the concept of French elections was the founder of the Republic, former general and former president Charles de Gaulle, while the founder of the expatriate delegation is former president Nicolas Sarkozy, who was president from 2007 to 2012. Sarkozy arranged the expatriate representative in 2010 .

11 constituencies for expatriates are divided as follows in the elections of the French Parliament.  1. America and Canada, 2. Latin America and the Caribbean, 3. Northern Europe, 4. Benelux countries, 5. Italy, Vatican and San Mario, 6. Switzerland, 7. Germany, Central Europe, 8. Egypt, Israel, Turkey, Greece, 9. North Africa, West Africa, 10. Central Africa, East Africa, 11. Asia, Oceania, Eastern Europe . If you look at these figures, it seems that since France is a colonial country in Africa, it has taken more participation from there. Even if you take citizenship of another country, you don't have to give up your French citizenship, you can go to the consulate or embassy as soon as you leave the country and register your name in the voter and participate by voting directly, by letter or online.

2.5 million expatriate French have 11 MPs directly in the parliament, which means that 1 out of 270,000 is represented. 

Italy is the first country to arrange direct representation on behalf of its citizens who have migrated. Who amended the constitution in 2001 and gave rights to their expatriate citizens and made them direct representatives. Italy is divided into 4 regions: Europe, South America, North and Central America and Africa, Asia, Australia and Oceania. Arrangements were made to send 8 people from these areas to the Lower House of Representatives and 4 to the Upper House by direct election. Where there are many Italians, many representatives are sent from there . There are 3 people from Europe, 2/2 from South America and North America and 1 representative from the rest.  The concept of

was developed in the late 1990s. Mirco Tremaglia is the main person ensuring the representation of expatriate Italian citizens . Tremaglia Law 2001 is also called after him. Tremaglia also served as Minister of Italians worldwide from 2001 to 2006.

The number of countries and the number of representatives have been determined by different countries to directly elect representatives to the parliament from their expatriate citizens . Tunisia has 6, Algeria 4, Cape Verde 3, Portugal 2, Mozambique 2, Colombia 1, Croatia 1 and Romania 1 directly elected MPs. 

Even though such developments and progress are taking place abroad, the government of Nepal seems to be very lenient, harsh and ruthless towards the migrant Nepali (NRNA). 

Neighbors and foreigners are brought into Nepal, but the most sad aspect is the indirect expulsion from the homeland through the Citizenship Act, the implementation of non-resident Nepali citizenship, etc. Even the right to vote abroad and to choose a representative for the parliament has been quietly taken away . Some leading countries such as: Israel, Haiti, Serbia, Mali, Syria, Yemen etc. have set up a separate ministry for their citizens who have migrated. The minister has completely worked for the problems of his citizens who have migrated, the rights of workers and rescue. Other countries have made more and more arrangements for their citizens who are in migration. But it is a heartbreaking situation that the government of Nepal is enjoying making its own citizens non-Nepali.

There is a fear that any country will be affected by the entry of more and more population from neighboring countries, especially landlocked countries. In the definition of NRNA, it is said that only those who live in countries other than SAARC countries are considered as non-resident Nepali, so giving non-resident Nepali citizenship with political rights will affect the population coming from India or neighboring countries to Nepal. Didn't happen. Now, granting citizenship with political rights to Nepali migrants who have reached seven seas will not have any effect. Citizenship should not be without political rights, that is, citizenship without political rights cannot be citizenship. It can be called a fraud on its own citizens . While forcing their own citizens to become foreign citizens, the citizenship of the descendants, continuity of citizenship, once a Nepali is always a Nepali, what about dual citizenship, even the natural right of the citizen to vote is very bad. is painful . 

Like the 10 countries mentioned above, for the sake of the rights, rights and rescue of 80 million Nepalis who are outside the country, select at least 5 MPs from among the Nepalis who are outside Nepal through NRNA or through any structure in the Parliament of Nepal  If a representation system can be made, the interference of Nepali parties on NRNA will be completely removed. This is an infallible remedy . 

Since there is no other management, everything has to be taken to the parliament through the MPs of the parties, so there is a compulsion to lobby the party to bring the voice of the migrants to the parliament. Removing it forever, according to the new demands of the new age, should we now raise our voices for the system of direct representation through the state mechanism or through NRNA? May this issue be debated at this time's convention, best wishes.