Public Awareness

Rule of Law

Since we have lived so long under the arbitrary rules and regulations of Shah regime and Rana oligarchic system of socio-political feudal way of life, the public awareness is necessary to make people fully understand how to live under the rule of law that protect human rights and civil liberty as per the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations.

The new constitution must abide and respect the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations. 

The mandate of the people's movement is for the complete democracy. Thus new constitution of Nepal must abide with the Universal Declaration of the Human Rights. There should be no compromise for the ideological supremacy.

In complete democracy neither the totalitarian nor the oligarchic feudalism have a place for supremacy.

Democratic Rule of the Laws

 How may the Complete Democratic rule of law be conceptualized and, insofar as possible, empirically gauged? 

This is a big challenge for the politicians, civil society, human rights organization, journalist, lawyer, intellectuals and perhaps for all the people of Nepal who strive for justice and rule of law.  

Those elites and executives of royal regime and those feudal who love to control as per the oligarchic arbitrary rule of law might not want to have such changes. Such individuals are all over from the government agencies to the political parties and from small village to the big city and perhaps also in among the civil society members and human rights activists. 

The challenge for civil society in Nepal is how to change the mind of those feudal minded elites with arbitrary judgments, religious supremacist, traditionally narrow minded, stubborn, arrogant uneducated superstitious people to be law abiding citizens. Such an achievement will take a great patience and time, and steady efforts for the establishment.    

Pro-people legislature
As per the mandate of the people's movement II the legislators must be vigilant and rational to protect the civil liberty and the human rights of people of Nepal that complies the Universal Declaration of the Human Rights and the legislature that nurtures complete democracy.

There should be no room for ideological differences, religious propaganda, political parties and their leaders power before legislations that is aimed to achieve civil liberty, human rights protections and establishment of complete democracy.

Economic Prosperity:
We Nepali people despite of our pride for the nationality and love of the country were kept in the cage for a quarter of the century. Under the Rana autocracy we were restricted from education and other human resources to earn better living.

We were prevented from doing business and industries. Yet Shah regime and Rana oligarch brought people from foreign soil to run the business and industries.

They send their children to school abroad for better education and we were kept in the dark and the dust under fear of threat, superstitions and ignorance.  

The elected Prime minister can assemble the cabinet not only from the elected lower house members of his or her party but also from among the other parties in the Parliament on the basis that the members of cabinet must have some expertise and experience to govern the country.

To eliminate the practice of the oligarchic feudal system of governance under Federal government logistics there should be district level of electoral government formed by the popular vote.

No more central appointee for the district administration. The post of chief district officer must be abolished as oligarchic government practice. Such appointees by the Federal government must be  unconstitutional.

District chair - 'Governor', Members of the district assembly, District chief of law enforcement officer, District Attorney, District Judges must be in the general election ballot to be elected by the popular vote. 

From among the elected district assembly members and the Governor the cabinet should be formed to administer the district.

The elected law enforcement officer should run the police academy of the district.

The elected district attorney should run the district prosecution agency.

The elected district judge should run the district's judiciary.

No more oligarchic or feudal or totalitarian central appointee to rule the homes of the people of Nepal.  

Our history proves that we are a good citizen of Nepal and the world community. As in the hard times of poverty and starvations we lived by rule of law no matter despotic or arbitrary.

But in the complete democracy we will learn to live under the rule of law. The rule of law is the foundation for economic prosperity. We believe that where there is rule of law as per the mandate of the civil liberty and human rights under the Universal declaration of Human Rights there will be economic prosperity for all.

In Nepal the ordinary people will live by the rule and will abide the rule of law. But the breach of law and corruptions will occur among the elites in government executives, political parties leaders, corrupt businessmen and industrial entrepreneurs.

To establish the rule of law the legislators must be vigilant, sincere and farsighted to bring the bill for law even to punish themselves if one of them violate the law - of civil liberty or human rights or economic corruption or public offence or crime.

Only with that honesty we can build a new prosperous Nepal. But if we are not honest and keep violating the law and escape the justice with the power of nepotism and favoritism, we will fail no matter how much money we keep taking from the donors of the first world communities.

Then the feudal minded royalists will have a room to accuse not only the parties and their leader but the Democracy itself. They will cross the people's movement and people will abide the feudal arbitrary rule and regulations. 

This is the challenge to all of us who wish to establish the rule of law. It is the question that we need to answer whether we can live sincerely with our reality that we are the citizens of the poorest nation on earth and we need to work hard to take next steps. This means we have to take that next steps ourselves not by our donors.

Supreme court of Nepal should be completely independent as per the principle of separation of power to be transparent as well as per the mandate of the people's movement for complete democracy.

Supreme judges should be nominated by the Prime minister for hearing in the Parliament.  Before the completion of the nomination the legislators in the Parliament must have complete hearing to examine the qualification, personal background and the profile of the nominees for the supreme court judges.

This should be the procedure of the all nominees of the supreme court as well as of the nominee of attorney general. Without the complete hearing and approval votes of the legislators the Prime minister's nominees must not be appointed for the post. 

Independent judiciary shall not influenced or aligned by the interest of the political parties, cabinets or other body of the state. It should abolish the oligarchic nepotism, favoritism and feudal mentality as per the mandate of the people's movement for the complete democracy to create New Nepal of 21st century. 

The law enforcements have to come up from the grass root levels of development in society. This means the logistics of the law enforcement must come about with the local level of responsibility.

For example, we can not send a law enforcement officer from Kathmandu to control the district of Palpa. The law enforcement officer (police officer) must be elected in the local level or district level to run the police academy for the accomplishment of the law enforcement in the district. All law enforcement personnel must be the permanent resident of the district. 

Just how to run the gun does not mean you are qualified law enforcement officer. The law enforcement officers must be aware of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and must thus respect all citizens' civil liberty as his own civil liberty. Such training must be legislated by the legislators of the Parliaments.

To legislate does not mean you just articulate general concept of the law but as a legislator one must think about the law in minute detail with farsighted vision to establish the logistics of law for implementations or enforcements. 

The achievements of the complete democracy will depend on the formations of the logistics and institutions to establish the rule of law.

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