A Dirty Game

By: Prem Prasad Sigdel

I used to think that politics was the best game that was necessary for the country. The word meaning of politics in Nepali is Rajniti. It means it is the supreme policy that has guided all other systems in the country. The etymological meaning is that Raj+niti. Raj means royal position and niti means policy. So the royal policy is the supreme policy which guides other all policies, rules, regulations and so on.

Moreover it suggests that only an eminent person would reach to the position so that s/he could guide the nation to right path. It has determined the future of the nation judging the past so that we can achieve the goal of development. Besides that the leaders would guide the political parties as well as the nation and they have the capacity or power to guide other people so that the people would believe them or they would do best for their welfare.

Nowadays I realize that politics is really a dirty game. The players are not the leaders they are the gangsters who have tried to capture national means and resources with all sorts of efforts. They have made others fool and try to get the power for themselves, their family and relatives. When we see the nature of Nepalese politics, we can see all these adjectives and nothing is lack in it.

The leaders by etymological meaning are such persons who can lead the mass to achieve certain goal. S/he would have power or capacity to convince others; and they have the power of coordination. They have certain aim or goal; to achieve the goal they would create mass and mobilize common people to meet the goal. They have also the capacity to manage resources so that there won’t be any stoppage in the work. Only the prominent person can be the leader who has the motive of sacrifice, devotion, dignity and power.

In our context the leaders have tried to get the power and nothing others. It’s better to call them as gangsters or looters who have power or strength and they could defeat others physically or with money. Truly, they are brokers and they would influence other with power and pelf. So they always seek to capture the regime which is their all time goal.

They don’t think about the development or they haven’t known the word development.  They have seen the word in any dictionary and they may have heard it from the mouth of any representative of INGOs. They have made fun of the word development with which they have got chance of loot on the state treasury for their satisfaction. They don’t have any morality; nor do they know the work ethics rather they have been playing game on people’s destiny. So their nature is crystal clear that they don’t have shame of the people.

There is no chance of accountability or responsibility. They have taken these words as their pocket money. If the spend money, they can buy the words accountability and responsibility. They think that accountability is related to accountancy which deals with the calculation of money only. Moreover, responsibility is the word for them that they would get from people not the people from them. So the concept they have understood is just opposite as they have done everything oppositely.

Nowadays I evaluate that politics is really a dirty game. It is played by the brokers who have no possibility of other jobs. They have the skill of guffaw and they have known to play tricks and cheating on common citizen. So my evaluation of politics is too… much dirty which can’t be cleaned with less effort.