HILLARY & OBAMA ON MAOIST NEPAL

Guwahati -26 November,2008
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WHO WOULD REMOVE NEPAL FROM
US TERROR LIST ?

Nepal, strategically located between two giants- communist China and capitalist India with a socialistic constitution, with a 24 million population, passing through a defining moment in history deserves attention of the new US presidency in the context of the US giving recognition to a democratically elected Maoist, socialist government.

Bush administration had enlisted the Maoist party that runs the present government at Kathmandu in the US terrorist list.A change is forthcoming in the agenda of the US state department, which could remove the Maoist ruling party from the US terror list. A new republic is born-hail to the new republic;the republicans world over would celebrate the end of monarchy.

The wishes of the Nepali mass that chose socialism could not be overlooked by a leading democracy like the post-McCarthy USA.McCarathysm is no longer respectable in post-1991 USA where smell of economic equality is no longer a communist blasphemy.Bush jr. would pump in billions of dollar to US banks to save capitalism with state support.

Obama could understand the strategic importance of Nepal in South Asia.American administration had already welcomed the election in the Himalayan kingdom, without acknowledging the victory of the Maoists.

Nepal would adopt a new constitution and resolve the anguish at southern Nepal, integrate the former Maoist CPN-revolutionaries within the new dispensation as much as George Washington and his revolutionaries got themselves stablilized in the post-independent United States.After all, revolutionism is not a new experience for the US that had to pass through one more civil war.

Nepali experience, in one sense, is a replication of the US civil war albeit the ideological content. Obama administration could bring a paradigm -shift on the subject, while confronting anti-American terrorists elsewhere.

Prachanda- the premier and the new president had congratulated on Obama's election with certain political expectations from the new order.Even Nepali astrologers predicted his victory over Mc Cain before one month of the US election. In retrospect, Nixon even wooed Mao Dze Dong during cold war period.

In May,2008, US deputy assistant secretary of state_ Evan Feigenbaum and ambassador Nancy Powell met the CPN- leaders, who had already laid down arms in 2006.US would indicate it concern for human rights and security of persons in Nepal.It continues to lend assistance to Nepal and would continue to do so,

The US had already taken steps to accept as many as 60,000 Bhutanese immigrant refugees in the US; similarly, Nepali immigrants in the US might have expected certain concessions from the country.

Obama's commitment to create 2.5 millon jobs for American youths bears no consideration for a large number of Indians, who love to leave their country for new opportunities or, greener pastures in their would-be-motherland, thereby creating brain-drain in India.America is the land of opportunities for both the Americans and the brainymanics from amongst the tsunamisque immigrant diasporas.

US has to shift its policy towards the socialist government in Nepal in order to reinforce the strategic importance of the latter.