We, Nepali people have earned our sovereignty. Our ancestors
fought formidable wars to keep our nation intact. The mighty rivals surrendered
their will and acclaimed our might. The unblemished sovereignty and unity in our
nationality is our greatest pride and it is the reason we raise our heads high
and recognize ourselves as Nepali despite of our internally squabbling politics
and strapped economy. We hold our head high as the sovereign citizen of a
beautiful nation in the lap of Himalayas, in front of foreigners but deep
inside each and every Nepali subject knows that we were never truly free.
Always strapped in the chain of amoral politics and administration, despite of
winning prodigious wars for sovereignty, we were always deprived of our rights
and our country was treated as patrimony of the throne. The potentate or the
family made the laws for us to obey and those laws drafted on their will for
their purpose are still fiddling with our freedom and rights to remain sovereign.
Now after several revolutions and sacrifices we are finally feeling free but
still the fragments and the repercussion of past autocracy is still pulling our
nation backwards, trying to break our unity exploring loopholes in our patriotism.
The context is of Dr. C. K Raut, a self-claimed Jinnah of Madesh, the terai of
Nepal, and Sarita Giri, a so called Madhesi freedom leader. Their motive clear;
its to create commotion and misconception in Nepali people unity and trying to
fragmentize the unshaken sovereignty using few points or laws drafted in past
by tyrannical rulers.
C.K Raut, introduces himself as a man deprived from his
original nationality. He believes Nepal has no right over the land of Madesh
that is the inner Terai region of Nepal. He claims that it was a sovereign land
before, which was snatched from the native people. And Sarita Giri, who protest
against the migration of people from Hilly and Himalayan region to Terai. She allege
that people living in upper region has no right to settle in Terai. Her statement posted in social media enraged
every Nepali people against her. She made an statement that Nepal government is
planning to settle the pahadiya to Madesh as King Mahindra did, in excuse of
the earthquake and she even warned that such act shall not be tolerable for the
people of Madesh. Posting such statement at the time of national crisis made
her the most hated person in Nepal.
During the Rana regime and before that, Kathmandu valley was
termed as Nepal. Being the capital, it was the very prosperous city, both
economically and culturally. The hilly region was the most populated and Terai
belt was mostly dense jungle. In the
more southern region, which is now recognized as Madesh, few aboriginal societies
used to reside. The Rana rulers were very concerned about the foreign intervention
in their regime. The India was ruled by British and Ranas had proper ties with
the British rulers on various terms. But in India the voice for independence was
getting loud and Indian people had started to revolt for independence. The Indian
people were tortured and chased in order to get rid of these freedom fighters by
the British rulers and they hid in the Madesh regions. Many people who left
India due to this or other various reasons in the course of time, settled in
Madesh. The Ranas were anxious about the fact that if these aware and educated freedom
fighters unite with Nepali people and excite them for the revolution of
independence in Nepal, it would be a great crisis for them. So, in order to
avoid these learned and aware people from the capital they enacted the rule
that no person from Terai or Madesh shall enter the capital without proper
identification and permit. This law helped the Ranas to extend the rule for
quite a long time. But it was this southern wave of freedom that later
dethroned them. This law was wiped out along with the Ranas as Nepal welcomed
democracy. Unfortunate for Nepali people that C.K Raut has exaggerated the same
law that Ranas enacted to avoid the south, to prove Madesh a different nation.
His absurd logic that in past the Madeshi people required passport to travel to
the capital as it was a separate nation is being used as the weapon for
breaking the nation.
During the period of King Mahindra an event of national
crisis occurred. People in Dharan and nearby districts suffered from cholera
and dyspepsia. More than five hundred people died and it was declared a state
of national crisis. King Mahindra himself visited the districts and formed a committee
to find out the reason of outbreak of cholera. The committee submitted their
report and they stated the cause of the disease to be the water of the river
Tamor. The river was polluted by open-defecation, bathing the cattle and mixing
of waste by people of the village just above Dharan. It was the cause of such
huge death in Dharan. When King Mahindra heard this he at once ordered to move
the village. When asked where to, he ordered them to be shifted to Koshi Tappu.
But the problem was far to be solved. Next year due to flood in Koshi river the
whole village was swapped and the people who lived had no where to go. When
king was reported about the incident he ordered to allow the living people some
land in Jhoda, where they could settle cutting the trees off. This is one of
the event of migration of people from hills to terai. There are lots of other
stories where people from hills migrated and settled in terai. And it is their
right too, Nepali people can live anywhere in Nepal with equal rights and
dignity. But some people like Sarita Giri, use these events to create commotion
and riots.
While analyzing these both people’s statements, I find it to
be baseless and threat to sovereignty and integrity of our nation. But the
inaction of government to stop these fallacies is depressing.
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