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Thursday, March 13, 2008

One Madhes : One State , How Relevant

There are lots of talk round the corner regarding this topic. people are talking non stop and as obvious lots of thoughts are pouring in. There are people who demand for "One madhes: one state" while there are people who strongly oppose this demand while there is a moderate group of people who neither support nor oppose the demand.
The million dollar question is " Is this a relevant demand"? here I would like to investigate this issue, hope I will conclude it honestly.
Nepal is a small country with a population of about 30 million. Basically people of two different races are found in Nepal. one is of aryan race being called as Madhesis and other being of Mangolian Race being reffered as Pahade. while both this groups are roughly equal to each other in number , the participation of madhesis in State machinery has been far lesser than of pahade. This eneqaulity is bound to invite tussle which ultimately has been the case in recent time. Now madhesis are demanding their due right which they can not be denied by any means.
When Nepal is gearing up to adopt a federal democratic system , the issues raised by Madhesi community has to be sorted out with dignity to avoid any sort of unstability. People in madhesh has been deprieved of many state facillities over years and now they feel they should be participating in every activities equally with their pahade counterparts. The demand of One madhes one Pradesh is nothing but it is a major loop forward to ensure the rights of madhesis would be preserved. Madhesis have been feeding entire Nepal for hundreds of years, they are the biggest tax payers and the biggest revenue generator for the state, while the rulers have never thought of seriously investing any state fund for development of Madhesh. During the rainy season, almost entire Madhesh reamins under flood while Pahade rulers enjoy their time in Kathmandu. So If madhesis have decided to ensure their future themselves by forming a Single autonomous state of madhesh then they should be granted that to avoid any confrontation in future.
Those who are opposing this demand often put a very funny logic that madhesh has been inhabited by different castes and communities of people so that can not be a single state. Nepal is a country of different castes, religion, ethnicity, if it can be a single nation then why not Madhes a sinle state?
Madhesi leaders should not bow down to any pressure exerted by pahadi leaders(Who all are very corrupt and power loving traitors for the country), they are doing so only to ensure their supremacy. Madhesi leaders have now got a greater responsibility of ensuring people' right in a dignified manner, they should make sure that the number of constituencies for centre have to decided in such a way that each and every voter will have a equal electoral right.