The nation is at risk:

Kathmandu. Given situations corroborate that we are placed much uncomfortably and awkwardly. We are almost on the verge of collapsing economically, politically, ethically and morally. Observations stated below indicate that we may have to face much bleaker days ahead.

We as a state nation:
We, as a state nation, are not governed by oneself. Foreign powers influence us heavily and we keep acting commensurately as if we were born just to serve the alien interests. The 'Lumpasarbad' culture we keep following is notoriously exemplary. 

Prachanda is making a visit to India very shortly. It may not be surprising if he is suggested by Delhi out of the blue. 

The inquiry on the fake Bhutanese Refugees Scam could see the light of day only after the US expressed its deep concern. But there have been many ill-efforts to bring it to an end with no achievement as such.The inquiry report submitted to the office of the Attorney General is completely incomplete. The main suspects masterminding the seditious crime that are in everybody's mouth have neither been interrogated nor case filed against them. 

Rumor has it that the US dissatisfaction is being compensated the other way round. Video clips confirming the opening of the US base camp at Majha of Bajhang are abundant. A trio of high mountains–Api, Nampa, and Saipal–located in the North-West of Bajhang district is essentially an important strategic point for the US to keep vigil both at China and India. 

Our economy:
Our economy could collapse any time. Resorting to internal borrowing to meet even the recurrent expenditure is never a good indicator for a sustainable economy. Increasingly shrinking imports and increasingly growing foreign trade imbalance have put the economy at the threshold of collapse. Thanks to the ever increasing remittances that have been working as a lifeline to our foreign reserve situation. 

Small entrepreneurs have been shutting down their ventures because of exorbitant bank rates while banks remain piled up with an excess amount of loanable funds for want of borrowers.

More than two thousand five hundred people desert rural Nepal every month. Nepal's agriculture has thus become almost no men's business. The cost has been very high to the economy resulting in an import of agriculture-related commodities worth almost Four hundred billion annually. 

Agriculture contributes almost 23% to Nepal's GDP and paddy alone is the largest determinant. The paddy production could decline sharply as there has been a projection that Nepal may have a dry monsoon with below-average rainfall–less by almost 35-55% during the following crop season.

The other two sectors–industry and services–have their own share of problems. The former is not developing even at snail's pace while the latter is not prospering the way it should have. 

Seven hundred and sixty one governments in all are just liabilities to the nation in the name of 'Federalism'. A poor nation with a 4.8 trillion economy faces immeasurable pains to eking the expenses out. The need was not a vertical divide of the nation but just a true fiscal decentralization. Politicians guided by whims, vagaries, and external dictation failed to take cognizance of this.

Our moral footing:
The culture, the moral, and the ethical values have reached to the minimalist low as if the value erosion were today's Nepal's politics's destination. The bureaucrats, the businesses, and the so-called intellectuals seem crazy to hobnobbing the corrupt politicians for their survival with complete ease. The rest that feel ashamed of doing so fall prey to a step motherly treatment. 

 Corruption:
Politics and Economics after 1990 have remained unscrupulously imprisoned by the 'Bichauliyas–middlemen'. Rescuing both from the jaws and claws of the middlemen is the first and the foremost priority. The leaders, in turn, are hellbent to promoting it. Worse still, the middlemen liaise with leaders to help them bankrupt the nation through a syndicate.

Politics has become an amazingly wealth amassing factory and the politicians that appeared aboveground after 1990 with no roofs to hide their heads, no two meals a day to fill their stomach, and no clothes to cover their bodies are now millionaires, billionaires, and trillionaires. Nepalis have carefully kept the 'Janam Kundali–the birth chart'–of the corrupt people.  They therefore know the corrupt with their 'nam, thar, watan–name, caste, and addresses'. But this has not meant anything because the authorities that could dig deep into corruption happen to be the corrupt themselves. 

The narratives such as 'zero-tolerance to corruption,and the complete corruption film to be broadcast' are just regular jokes, the authorities feel like poking fun at people to ridicule them. Digging deep into corruption is nobody's business in Nepal for everyone is corrupt. Leaders are well aware that acting sternly against even a single corrupt colleague, no matter which political party s(he) belongs to, could boomerang on oneself. This is why the leaders prefer collusion to competition. 

We have preferred a democratic polity to the rest which is never an evil-free system per se. What is true is that it has less evils vis-a-vis the others. But it has been much costlier–elections have become the priciest propositions–the very root cause why corruption has crossed all limits. It is unbecoming to expect every contestant to perform the electioneering rituals the way Harka Sampang does. 

Nepal's development rhetoric:
We have been having the so-called development rhetoric in the name of governments' policies and programs, annual budgets, and the periodic plans right from 1956. But the irony with them is that there have been formidable gaps between rhetoric and action, programs and implementation, goals and results, and words and deeds.

We had the one just a few days before in the Federal Parliament read aloud by the President–Ramchandra Poudel – who never tired of calling himself a socialist. But the way he thought of taxing a poor economy like ours so heavily by appointing a huge number of 'Vardars–the advisors' was a great tamasha. Our constitution envisages just a copy book President. Who is to listen to him and why such a big coterie of advisors then?

Why a lull then?
The frustration, disappointment, and resentments amongst the hoi-polloi have reached Sky-high;albeit, with no significant road shows. The main reason behind is that people readily prepared to take to the streets seem looking forward to having an actor that could act with a sense of purpose having taken cognizance of what Nepalis wish and desire.

 Nepalis seem in no mood to accept any actor not on par with how they expect. They seem also sure of not accepting anyone that intends to join the existing mess merely to be its part and have his/her pound of flesh. They are hunting the one who could act as a solution to all existing evils.

Conclusion:
We are to have yet another rhetoric–the budget speech a few days after. If the past is at all a guide, nobody expects it to be any better. 

Does anyone want to know why? It is because such rhetoric comes the same way and in to to the way they have come before. There is no difficulty in understanding why so happens. The rhetoric developers either assume the people not to have read the earlier ones, or have forgotten , if read at all. Observers wonder if it could be a standard norm of rating the people in a polity said to be a democratic!

I hereby confirm my pre-approval to the-coming-soon-budget without any ifs and buts should it take cognizance of what I have said and devise some measures to address even the minutest fraction of the concerns I have shown. Remember, such concerns are many. 

Would it be so? Would it not be so?? What do you think dear readers???