Our great business-wallahs, nonetheless, have a reason to be happy because our finance minister is not interested to take action against the ‘fake VAT Bill’ scammers and tax-evaders. Well, it seems our communists really like the gung-ho capitalists far better than ordinary folks. So what does that mean? Well, our business houses will probably have a lot of spare changes to contribute for the next year’s May Rally organized by our trade unions!
They finally got Osama! What can we learn from the Amrikis? Well, it doesn’t matter if it takes you 10 years even after spending billions of dollars. At the end of the day, you get your things done! Osama is finally dead and President Obama is also back from being politically dead. His poll numbers will get some boost but come election time, the Amrikis will vote for somebody else if their paycheck is not enough to cover their expenses.
Finally, after two months of haggling for lucrative ministries, our buddies and the Madeshi netas have decided to join Jhallu Baba’s cabinet! If you are a business-wallah, tender-wallah and agents for foreign companies then this is time to get your things done. Of course, you will need to come up with the right price. Our ministers are already itching to sign your papers because they want to make some dough before things go awry again.
And what about us, the people? Well, we the people will keep on funding our CA members’ salaries and perks while they work diligently to enrich the law-breakers, tax-evaders and their chamchas!
As for the rest of us, we can do nothing but wait and hope our netas will come together, find a common ground and give us the much delayed new constitution. But Nepali jantas are used to waiting for everything. Here in Nepal, the only folks who can afford anything are our great netas and their chamchas and our ‘hardworking’ sarkari hakims and the business-wallahs who get refund on taxes they never paid. What about us? We have only two options, either to go abroad for a few dinars or languish here in the hopes that things will change for better.
We stay in line for 12 hours to get some fuel. But thanks to our Desi bhais and their 3 billion Rupees credit, Kathmanduites will soon have enough fuel to go to the Last Resort or Dulikhel or just drive around Kathmandu to attend parties and what not! It is a different matter that in a couple of months, we will be back to waiting long hours for few liters of petrol and cursing NOC and our netas. Food prices go up every year and we don’t complain. Some of us just shake our heads, curse the vegetable seller, the butcher or the taxi-driver and go on with our lives. Some of us, however, go around slapping our netas.
Jhallu Baba got slapped and he became prime-monster, and now comrade Jhakku is the recent winner of ‘Slap a CA member’ bumper prize. I hope Jhakku will be our next prime-monster because once you get slapped by the ‘Slapping Swamis’ your luck change overnight!
And once again, Upendra Yadav is our foreign minister! I hope he breaks his previous records with more foreign junkets this time round. Maybe he should start packing his bags right now and go on another ‘world tour’. Visit 10 different countries in 20 days, come back and write a travelogue!
He can publish the travelogue in three different languages -- Nepali, Hindi and English, and go on a book promotion tour fully sponsored by the Indian Embassy. Talking about the Indian Embassy, why are the folks in Delhi sending us ‘nuclear experts’ as ambassadors? First it was Sood, and now it’s Prasad. I hope they don’t have some kind of mini-nuclear reactor in the Embassy!
And the Maoists finally get the home ministry. Does that mean we will see our police-wallahs in red shorts and bandanas? Or, will they finally stop harassing ordinary citizens, not get drunk on duty and floss their filthy mouth?
How about providing each and every police-wallahs a communication set loaded with GPR stuff so that we can track them as they don’t seem to be able to track down any criminal? Well, Mr Mahara had a stint with the Telecom thing, so he knows where the moolah is!
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