We are done with our local elections and as usual, it was the crooks and the corrupt who managed to win big with their muscles and money.

It seems that we, the people are still not ready to elect honest, hardworking folks to represent us.

We just want to be safe with the same old thieves from the same old corrupt political parties because most of us do want to make sure that we have people who will waste our taxpayers’ money on chiya kharcha to near and dear ones instead of having someone who will work to save us a few Rupees.

We thought our local representatives were going to be a different lot, better than the usual bunch of pickpockets who are our Constipated Assembly (CA) members.

But they seem to be more greedy than our lawmakers. Our Mayors want to ride around in luxury vehicles that will cost us more than a Karod. Our ward chairpersons want smart phones and other perks.

The Mayor of Kathmandu has failed us miserably. He can’t even clear the garbage from the streets of Kathmandu and yet he dreams of making our Capital a smart city with a metro rail and what not. 

Maybe, we just need to make our Capital a walking city and instead of giving preference to vehicles, let us give priority to our pedestrians and promote cycling.

We will be a lot fitter and we will save billions in fuel and even medical cost as we might at least be able to minimise pollution inside the valley to some extent.

We now look forward to our provincial elections at the end of November and then we will have to elect our chors who will represent us in the parliament on the first week of December.

Why can’t we have both of the elections on the same day? Our Election Commissioners are more interested to ride around in luxury vehicles and waste hundreds of millions of Rupees for their own benefit instead of saving the government a few Rupees.

It seems that every hakim saheb and neta just wants to find ways to waste money from the national coffer.

I think we need someone who is a saver who can save this country, save our economy, save us a few Rupees and save the game of politics before it becomes a playground for only murderers, kidnappers, robbers and mundrey gundas.

Our Constipated Assembly wasted billions and billions to feed our hungry, starving lawmakers for nearly a decade. And what did we get so far? We got nothing but a half-baked constitution which once again happens to be the best in the world.

Our CA will cease to exist but we can’t be happy that we will save billions of Rupees because now, we will spend even more when we finally get our Chief Ministers and his or her courtiers in our provinces. Then we will have to feed our Prime Monster and his mini-sinisters at the federal level as well. 

Our Mayors want vehicles worth more than a Karod. Now, a Chief Minister would want something more luxurious and expensive than what a Mayor is driving around in.

So, let’s get him or her Range Rovers. Yes, we should keep the status of our VVIPs in mind. If we checked our nation’s bank accounts then we would not be able to afford even a cycle but who cares about balancing the books? So, let us not hurt the dignity of the office of the Chief Minister.

And our provincial ministers will need a nice ride as well. Our provincial Houses will have as many members combined as we had in our Constipated Assembly. All lawmakers there will need a nice paycheck, chiya kharcha and other perks. 

Then, we move up to the federal level, where we will have 275 eggheads at the Lower House and 59 snobs in the Upper House. 

Do we really need to have PR seats? We have seen how our corrupt political parties sell their PR quotas to byaparis and other con artists for Karods of Rupees.

It would be nice if the PR seats had a eligibility requirements like at least have a Masters degree and have held a job for at least five years in their life or if you are a byapari then your audit report of your business should be updated and not be in the black list.

We cannot change this system by just writing about it. Our media has been doing decent jobs writing about corruption, abuse of authority and what not.

Our incompetent government fires Gopal Khadka and the Supreme Court reinstates him at his old job because our government failed to follow due process.

Maybe, our government should also look the other way and act like it didn’t get the Supreme Court’s directive like they have been doing for those who have been found guilty of murder and are yet to be arrested.

But Gopal Khadka will continue to find ways to make millions for himself, our netas and other government officials.

Our politicians and civil servants really don’t care if you call them names, shame them or protest against them in the streets.

They have turned out to be much worse than the all the previous regimes combined when it comes to showing at least an ounce of empathy for the people. 

Where are we heading? Is there light at the end of the tunnel? The answer is a big No!  Our politicians would rather make a quick buck and will not hesitate to sell this country to the highest bidder.

This is what happens when traitors run the country while patriots have to run out of the country in hopes of making a few Dinars. 

- Guffadi is a grumpy old man who blogs at guffadi.blogspot.com. You may contact him at [email protected]