--By Madan Lamsal

 

Manifestation is the crux of all civilizations. There is unfailing debate throughout the human civilization about the beauty and duty about manifestations. Great wars have been fought on the mere issue of manifestation, be that Mahabharat or Anglo-Saxon. In ancient times, men and women manifested their parts of attractive bodies to entice the opposite sex. In modern cinema civilization, you know better how the issue of manifestations has been debated as part aesthetics or sex. If you watch a well-manifested cinema, you talk more about it than the storyline it carried.

 

On duty-side as well, the principle of enticement has not changed much. For instance take Nepal’s political parties’, that are contesting the Constituent Assembly (CA) elections, hope to hold CA elections in the month of November. They have made their supposedly election manifestoes public and all of them seem to be greatly influenced by the tinsel town concept of selling the cinema inserting some more manifestations in the story. Political heroes also probably forgot the storyline that they are going to write the constitution through the new CA. Their indulgence in the act of enticement by overt manifestation of the to-do-list in CA elections manifestoes establishes nothing else.

 

No credible commitment is found expressed in manifestoes to write a constitution that guarantees the rights of the people. But, regardless of whether constitution would be actually written or not, these manifestoes instead surely promise you everything possible from prostitute to prosperity. If you are on the plank of arguing that, prosperity cannot be promised without writing a new democratic constitution, then you don’t understand the culture of political prostitution that is in vogue in Nepal. You never know which leader will partner with which party during the day and the same leader will lean to other party during the night.

 

But, without worrying much about the constitution, if you look at the list of promises made by these manifestoes, you are sure to relish. Everything to everyone, that’s how you can sum-up these manifestoes. Home to homeless, power to politicos, tax rebate to tax evading community, partners to young, food to humans, feed to animals, cloths to kids, cure to olds, power connection to houses, empowerment to housewives, love to poor and luxury to riches. The list is so long that, you will be bored if all of them are copied here. You can actually call it your own wish-list.

 

No doubt, the political parties and political leaders are doing the right thing. The private sector of Nepal had long complained that the political leadership has ignored the economic and developmental concerns of Nepal. But these manifestoes have compensated all past lacunae of these sorts. In fact, this time around, all they have done is, shown utmost concern only to the economy and prosperity of the country, nothing else.

 

This is very right strategy to adopt. Because, by this, both the new constitution and the prosperity can be ensured simultaneously. It is natural for them not to worry about constitution and mention its whats and hows in their manifestoes. Every Nepali is well aware that our sovereign constitution is being written with great care, by great experts, somewhere in the world. Could be, it is done in more than one place and we lucky Nepali will have chance to chose the best instant constitution from a fairly long menu. We will get to see it when it is brought here, ready to be implemented.

 

Similarly, it is pointless to ask how our leaders are going to fulfill such an extraordinarily long list of promises without arranging resources and plans. Their duty is just to make the list, not to consider about the feasibility and finance of the related projects. For that, we again know, money will come from the same window where the constitution would be coming.

 

My only last confusion is: whom to vote whereas all manifestoes look the same? Oh yeh! I can console saying that every party in Nepal is not different in vital issues. That is manifested!