Nepal Govt appoints 27 ministry secretaries: 20 are Brahmins, outrageous exclusion continues to prevail

Kathmandu, October 11- The Government of Nepal has appointed 27 secretaries (Special class officers) to head various ministerial bureaucracies in the country. Not deviant from the past non-inclusive practice in the governance, 74.1% secretaries hand-picked by the current so called pro-inclusion government are from Brahmin caste, which accounts for only 16% of the country’s total population. The list of the new secretaries by their caste groups runs as follows: Brahamin caste (20): Shankar Prasad Koirala, Purna Prasad Kadariya, Rameshwor Prasad Khanal, Puroshottam Ojha, Shankar Prasad Pandey, Shyam Prasad Mainali, Baburam Acaharya, Baman Prasad Neupane, Uma Kant Jha, , Punya Prasad Sharma, Dr Govinda Prasad Kusum, Rameshwor Dubey, Balnanda Poudel, Dr Ramhari Aryal, Lilamani Poudel, Gyanchandra Acharya, , Tana Gautam, Bhagwati Kumar Kafle, Chaviraj Panta and Dr Uday Raj Sharma (20), Chhetri caste: Tej Bahadur Thapa Gharti, Deep Bahadur Swar, Newar caste: Arbind Kumar Shrestha, Ram Kumar Shrestha, Brinda Hada (3), Hill Tribe: Sushil Bahadur Rana (1) and Non-Brahamin Madheshi: Bajra Kishor Prasad Saha (1).

When all three components of the state- executive, judiciary and legislative are headed and run by a sect of people belonging to a population in minority, there is some thing going absolutely and systemically wrong in the governance of the people. This used be the case taken for granted when absolute autocratic monarchy or monarchial Panchayat system (limited democracy) was prevailing in the country. However, it is very too dangerous when the government claims to be democratic and pro-people, but the rule is still in the hands of a small segment of the population. This is what continues to happen in this country.

The state of affairs around the current appointment of secretaries is not at all a coincidence but a deliberate choice for maintaining the status quo handed down from the Brahmin dominated feudal past. Even today, the whole of state machinery is outrageously captured by the Brahmins and Chhetris, and all other people representing the real masses are their hostages.

Prime Minister of Nepal and chief of the largest political party is a Brahmin, so are the chiefs of other other two largest political parties. Most of the ministers are Brahmins. The Army Chief is a Brahmin. Of 75 districts, 65 Chief District Officers (CDOs) who are in charge of law and order in the respective districts are Brahmins, while 6 Chhetris, 2 Newars, a lone Madheshi and Muslim each are other CDOs. This is the situation in the executive branch.

In the judiciary, the situation in not any different from the executive branch of the state. Of 20 Supreme Court judges, 11 are Brahmins (55%), while 3 Chhetris, 3 Newars, one each from Hill Tribe, Non-Brahmin Madeshi and Muslim are other judges of the apex court. In the Appellate courts, of a total of 96 judges, 63 are Brahmins and 15 are Chhetris, while other judges are 9 Newars, one Hill Tribe, 5 Non-Brahmin Madeshis and 2 Muslims. In District courts, of a total of 135 judges, 96 are Brahmins and 36 are Chhetris, while other judges are 22 Newars, 11 Non-Brahmin Madeshis, 7 Hill Tribes and 4 Muslims.

There is a total absence of representation from Dalit community in both the executive and judiciary branches of the state.

In the legislative side, of a current total of 330 Interim Legislature-Parliament members, 123 (37.3%) are Brahmins alone, other parliamentarians are 82 Hill Tribes, 54 Chhetris, 51 Non-Brahmin/Non-Dalit Madheshis, 16 Dalits and 4 Muslims.

Report by:
Dick Bahadur Vishwakarma
Rupendehi.

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