CIVIL SOCIETY OF NEPAL

Liberty Lamp lit in Nepal!

CIVIL SOCIETY OF NEPAL
(The Founding Pillars of People's Movement for Civil Liberty)

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WE TRUST IN CIVIL SOCIETY & IN CIVIL LIBERTY

Immediate Civil Duties

Protect Civil Liberty and Watch Basic Human Rights' Violation

Protest for Justice & Establish Rule of Law

Warn Political Parties and their Leaders against Corruption, Favoritism & Nepotism

Support Peace Negotiation between 7 Parties' Government and Maoists as per the Mandate of the People's Movement

Critique the Formation of the Interim Government

Play Active Role to Accomplish Constituent Assembly Election

Actively Participate to Rewrite the Constitution which can successfully establish the Federal System of Governance

Help to Restructure the State with Autonomous Local Administrative Logistics for Local Level of District Governance to Emerge Actively

Fight to Abolish the Oligarchic System that Allow Central Government Appointees to Administer the District such as CDOS

Set Off-limits of the Central (Federal) Government from Interfering and Manipulating Local Level of Government for Political Power

Establish Complete Decentralized System of Governance by Eradicating Centralized Feudal or Oligarchic or Totalitarian Governing Logistics

Make Sure Members from Village, District Assembly to the Parliament are Elected in General Election with Popular Vote

Highlight the Values of Secular Society with its Rational Approach to Mankind

Enlighten the People from the Darkness of Feudal Mentality which had misled Nepali people with Religious Propaganda and Superstitions for last 250 years

Civil Society must Lead the People's Movement to Establish Complete Democracy and its Culture in New Nepal

Publish Works of Civil Society Works: Literature, Research Papers, Journals, Etc

Proposal to establish Democratic Institutions for Federal System of Government in Nepal with grass-root local level of administrative, judiciary & law enforcement electoral logistics of Democracy

If we “Nepali People” stand for “Complete Democracy”, we then must go ahead to establish the Democratic institutions for Federal System of government, which allows districts of Nepal to be ruled by the people of the district through direct electoral procedure of the popular votes

No cabinet chief can appoint for any position in legislative, executive and judiciary bodies of the nation with out Parliamentary hearing and voting.

So in order to fulfill the mandate of the People’s Movement II for the complete Democracy we must stir our movement to eradicate the feudal oligarchic and autocratic government practices such as the appointments of district chief administration officers (CDOS, LDOS and so on).

We must abolish such establishments by restructuring the complete electoral system of governance for the people and by the people through the election of national constituent assembly election and with the rewriting of a new democratic constitution.

Prelude:

Nepali people have demonstrated most courageously in People’s Movement II from their hearts with national and international solidarity that they stand for the complete Democracy to create a Democratic Secular New Nepal.

Such a historic movement must continue until and unless we achieve our collective wish to establish unshakable foundation for complete Democracy. As per the mandate of the movement we must successfully accomplish our national constituent assembly election to write a new (all inclusive secular) democratic constitution, which guarantees complete electoral system of governance.

We must establish autonomous regional district level of government bodies elected by the popular votes of the people of each district to achieve following logistics for administration and development of the district:

1. Such local governments must have rights to form cabinet to administer the district from the elected members of district assembly.

2. Such local governments must have rights to legislate local regulations through district assembly hearing and voting as per the article of the nation’s constitution.

3. Such local governments must have rights to assemble revenue from local taxes to meet the expenses of the district administration and development.

4. Such local governments must have rights and responsibilities to build infrastructures for the developments of the district.

We must understand “What is complete electoral system of governance?” as active participants of the People’s Movement II that all legislative, executive and judiciary bodies must be elected as many as by the popular votes from the village level to the Parliament.

Active participants (men and women) of the movement from Civil Society, Human Rights Activists, Lawyers, Journalists, Intellectuals, student unions, to the youths of Nepal must campaign nationwide for the public awareness to establish a Decentralized Electoral (Federal) System of Government. That is what it means complete electoral system of governance.

We must flashback the facts of our past history of governance that had not only dominated our system of government but also our thinking that is conditioned to meet our ends need. We all are less or more conditioned with the feudalistic way of life and oligarchic system of administrations and public managements.

1. Such local governments must have rights to receive annual funds for districts developments such as education, health and natural disaster funds from the Federal government as being a part of the local body of the nation.

The leaders of political parties of Nepal are prone to get succumb to their parties’ self-interest for power. Once they get into the government their minds get lost even at this critical stage of national crises. We have presently witnessed such vested interests for just forming a cabinet to pave the road for Interim Government and accomplishing the election of National Constituent Assembly to write a new constitution for our New Nepal.

Nepali people have let them do this in the past. But now at this juncture we must actively be vigilant to guard the verdict of the People’s Movement II getting slipped away from the political party leaders’ wicked hands so that they cannot continue with the old oligarchic logistics of the government and do away with the mandate of the movement.

Therefore, we never had the vision to establish the complete democratic institutions from the local grass-root level to the Parliament. In last twelve years of democracy we only had the Parliamentary level of institutions to govern the county from the centrally controlled feudal oligarchic logistics of administration and public managements.

Many of us, especially the politicians from different parties might not know how the developed world’s democratic nations work with the complete electoral systems of governance most profoundly from the local grass-root levels.

Until we successfully accomplish the foundation of the complete democracy through the election of the Constituent Assembly – for Republican or ceremonial monarchical Multiparty Democracy, we must not put an end to the People’s Movement II. We must keep moving on with it until we reach to our destination.

People’s movement II have warned the political leaders of all parties that they must not repeat the same mistakes again as they had committed in last fifteen years. What mistakes they committed and how they lost the trust of people was mainly by continuing the nation’s governance with the old regimes’ oligarchic and autocratic logistics of administrations.

We often imagine about such decentralized electoral systems of governance because we do not have experience other than the feudal oligarchic and autocratic centrally controlled systems of governance.

We have faced such practice even in last twelve years of Democracy that the politicians from all different parties did not have the vision and courage to abolish the feudal oligarchic and autocratic logistics of governance from the local levels to the cabinet.

Now we must fight with such psycho-political conditionings (mentalities) of leaders and ruling elites through the election of the Constituent Assembly. We must therefore most precisely and vigilantly establish the secular Democratic legislature, executive and judiciary logistics to abolish feudal autocratic and oligarchic system of government, which are creeping viruses among ruling elites and government agencies.

We must face the oligarchic administrative logistics as dominant elements of feudal autocratic regime that all ruling elites find easy to grab power from it even in the name of Democracy. Oligarchic logistics are not only corrupt by it’s own administrative procedures but also parasitical in the government practice.

For example, the politicians themselves did not allow the elected district chiefs to form the district cabinet to administer the districts. But kept appointing chief district officers from the central government to administer the districts. They knew such appointments are based on the feudal oligarchic and autocratic practice of Rana and Shah regimes.

Therefore, we all participants (men and women) of the movement from Civil Society, Human Rights Activists, Lawyers, Journalists, Intellectuals, student unions, to the youths of Nepal must campaign to abolish such logistics. Thereafter we must bring about changes in the ‘New Constitution of People of Nepal’ that gives fundamental rights and responsibility to the people to be governed by people themselves.

To our surprise in the developed world’s democratic nations not only the parliamentary, local states and counties assembly representatives are elected by the popular votes but also the district judges, attorneys, law enforcement district officers (police chiefs) are elected as per the basis of their permanent residential local status.

The Prime Minister or the Presidents of the nation can only nominate Supreme Courts Judges and Federal Attorney General in judiciary system of governance before the Parliamentary hearing and voting.

We must ask what are feudal oligarchic and autocratic administrative, judiciary and law enforcement logistics of past and present governments of Nepal?

We all know the history when and how feudal oligarchic and autocratic logistics began to centrally control Nepal from it’s capital. These logistics were developed and implemented by Shah and Rana regimes through their birthright family heritage, through the network of nepotism and favoritism with the practice of caste system.