Let's hope, this time UML will seriously consider that the country belongs to women and they have equal right to reach the place of running the country and making policy.
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CPN-UML is holding a legislative convention from 20th to 22nd of August. I am reminded of my own article published in Kantipur on May 21, 2075, ``The Prime Minister's country is ours too'' while wondering what the UML legislative convention will do for the women of its party.
Where are the women ? The country also belongs to women, let's count women as human beings, women also have an equal contribution (maybe more) in building this society and history, while many other women, including me, have been writing about these things for years, there is nothing left to write. Now we write nothing but recycling of the same old stuff .
These things that I and many other women keep writing and speaking over and over again make us feel the same thing, the pace of society is changing every second, but the interpretation of sociologists will never be applicable in the case of Nepali society. We have been there for years. We are sitting on the edge and shouting, injustice has happened to us, our place is not guaranteed, why is your place higher and ours lower in the society and state system built together? etc .
The current Prime Minister is KP Sharma Oli . He is also the chairman of CPN-UML. The reason for saying 'this time' is because 'that time' means Oli was the prime minister in 2075 and he was also the party chairman. At that time, the air of unity between CPN-UML and CPN-Maoist Center was fresh. But the then 'NCPA' could not ensure 33 percent of the mandatory constitutional provision of women in the central committee of the party.
While according to the Political Party Registration Act 2074 Section 15 (4) it was clearly written that 'at least one-third of the party's committee should have women members'. And, after the unification, the newly formed 'NCPA' had to make one-third of the women in the central committee at the time of party registration. 33 percent participation of women in the Central Committee has not been ensured, as reported in the news, Prime Minister and Party President Oli instructed women leaders not to be misled by NGOs. And this 'instruction' given by him was silently approved by Prachanda, another top 'revolutionary' leader of the then CPN.
Communist parties refer to each other as 'comrades'. Comrade means fellow warrior . A man who walked with himself as a warrior, a man who fought. But how many comrades do the "senior" male leaders of the Communist Party of Nepal see their female comrades? How do such words come out of the mouths of those who see comrades ? How can they be so insulting in speech and behavior? Even today, in the construction of the party, in the change of the system, the women comrades who walked with them by putting aside their twenties' problems, pains and difficulties, sitting on the upper ladder of structural benefits, are oppressed by the male 'comrades'.
Binda Pandey, the leader of UML, in her article "Chronicles of Socialist Feminist Movement in Nepal" has mentioned that Madan Bhandari's theory of "people's multi-party democracy" has explained the socialist feminist point of view by keeping a separate point of "relation to women". According to Pandey, we need our country's The most 'progressive' constitution made in history, many things within the multi-party democracy of the people have been reflected in the constitution of 2072.
may be based on this foundation, the leaders of CPN-UML repeatedly take the main role in public programs to include the subject of proportional inclusion in the current constitution, to ensure one-third of women's participation at the policy level, to make women the first female President, Speaker, Chief Justice, Chief Secretary, etc. However, it is still found in the documents of the UML, the representation of women in the party and mass organizations has not increased to 33 percent.
The ratio of women officials from the party's central secretariat to the floor committee is only 5-1 . It has been seven years since the prime minister instructed the women of the party not to 'taunt' in 2007. Let's hope, this time CPN-UML will seriously consider the fact that the country also belongs to women and they have equal rights to reach the place of running the country and making policies. And, provision will be made in the statute to ensure the honorable participation of women.
