Janmat Party Chairman Dr. CK Raut Criticizes Prime Minister Balen Shah's Government

Kathmandu. Janmat Party Chairman Dr. CK Raut has expressed dissatisfaction with the working style of the government led by Prime Minister Balen Shah and warned to correct its path immediately. Raut, who made a comment on social media before the government completed even a hundred days, questioned the government's concept of 'development' and its behavior towards citizens. 

He argued that development is not just about paved footpaths and wide roads, but about every citizen having a place to stand, a shelter to live in, and access to basic necessities. Raut has termed the structures being built in the capital by displacing the poor, laborers, and marginalized as the 'luxury of the nouveau riche'. 

Reminding that the definition of the state is not just land but its people, he commented that the government is merely a salaried employee appointed to take care of the people. He stated that the state mechanisms should not forget their limits and scope of authority, and that harboring arrogance of power and authority is merely an illusion.

Raut's analysis is that it is dangerous to consider oneself above the people based on the army, guns, power, or social media algorithms and views. Recalling history, he said, 'The person sitting on this throne before also believed they were God.' 

He suggested that if those running the state find it difficult to make decisions, they should adopt the golden rule, and urged them to think about their own small children in the place of the victims when making any decision. Mentioning the context of Nepal where the state has taken away everything from children, and in Japan, a train has been running for years for one girl, Raut said there is a world of difference in the behavior of the states of the two countries. 

He indicated that the state's behavior towards citizens determines the mindset of future generations, and that the government's recent steps could lead to negative consequences in the future. He concluded that it is against the rule of law for the government to make people homeless when it should be protecting them.