It is fun to be the strikes for some people, I heard guys saying "I am waiting when will be the next strike, in last strike we had great time playing cricket on the street, it was really fun". I was glad to hear at least some people enjoy the strikes too. I might be wrong, not only some people, many people might enjoy the strike. Some enjoy to lit the tire on fire, some enjoy hitting stones at the vehicles, some enjoy to kick the person who drives the motorbike. The reported number of strikes in Nepal was 254 days in the year 2008. After reading such statement from Nepal Police I checked the calendar to be sure again that there are 365 days in a year.
Usually I prefer to go to the street to see the crowd and their deeds in strikes, once I asked a boy of the age around 13 who was trying to hit the ambulance with the stone. Generally Tourist Buses, UN vehicles, Ambulance and fire brigades are excused during strikes, but that kid was hitting stone on the ambulance and I asked him why you are doing this. He said those ambulance drivers are being clever these days, they run the ambulance very often to carry the passengers during strikes to earn good money. I still don't know the fact but that kid said me he have seen some ambulances carrying passengers instead of patients and taking money from them. I felt in this modern era people doesn't even trust ambulances, or still the question arises are the ambulance drivers faithful to be trusted? In the same strike I went to ask a person who was sitting on the street with something written in a piece of cloth. I asked him what this strike is for. He replied me "this strike is to gain the rights of our casts". I asked him, what are the rights that you are searching for? he replied "Our tribes should be preserved, we should get facility and benefits like the proper citizen of this country, we should be given opportunity to explore our talents, we should get opportunity for employment, there must be some quota system for our tribes in everything". I questioned him again, "what benefits and facilities do you think that other citizens of Nepal enjoy and you don't?", he looked at me with angry eyes and asked "are you Journalist?", well I was not a journalist but was working in one Radio Station so, I showed him my identity card of the radio station, he might have thought me as journalist and said "ok, you journalists just know how to ask question, if you were here in my place then you would have known about the trouble that I am facing". To tell the fact, I didn't see any journalists around there.
I again asked him, may be you want to say something about this strike, what is the main motto behind this strike, he replied me "as I said earlier, to aware the government that we are also capable of doing something, we want our rights, we have list of our demands to be fulfilled, if the government will not fulfill our demand then I guess they (the government) have already seen what we are capable of doing, so we will continue our strike till our demands will not be fulfilled by the government". I didn't felt to ask any further questions to him again. As an old saying "Don't argue with fool, people might not know the difference", I may be wrong to walk away from there but I didn't find any fruitfulness in his words. He was just a stupid chap, who was used by some politically aware people. They wanted to pressurize the government to be well-known personality among the civics. I might have dealt with the wrong person, but he was still unaware what he was fighting for, was it for fame? for money? for rights? or for equality? his replies didn't satisfy me. Instead of arguing with him I went my way back home, cause I knew every civil of Nepal enjoys the same services and facilities. Ministers and high level officials might get some extra facility but they get those facilities in accordance to their post and the serve for the nation. They are responsible to drive the nation so at least some extra facilities should be enjoyed by them. I didn't see any difference between the facilities that he and I enjoy, we are normal citizen of Nepal and we enjoy the equal facilities, and there are millions of people who has the same amount of facilities served by the nation. Well another issue was to preserve his tribe, now how shall the government preserve the tribe? keeping them in safe place or asking them to produce more children? I don't have any answer. The only sentence I felt right about what he said was, "we shall be given opportunity to explore our talents", I guess the government have not given the opportunity to explore any citizens’ talents but if they are talented enough they have explored their talents in one or another way. Take an example of Sunil Pokharel, though not given opportunity by anyone, he made his name in the field of art and acting. So, talents shall not be blocked by any means, if you are talented, but I wonder what his talent was, was it to hit the stone on the vehicles, if so then also government has given him opportunity to vandalize the vehicles during strikes. Finally the issues of quota was raised by him, if the government started giving quota to all the casts and tribes of Nepal then I wonder if any talented and skillful people will be in the right position.
Strike means to halt the work, if there is no any flow of work or effort in any services then I don't see any possibility of development. Take an example of economy of any organization, the value of the organization's share increases by the rapid flow of money in it, if the flow halts or is slow then the value of share automatically decreases (there are other external factors too, but I am just concentrated on the flow inside an organization). So, if strikes hit the country very often then we are heading towards wrong direction. People demand something and they call for strike to put the pressure on government for fulfillment of their demands, now we have reached a lowest point where the government is paralyzed and is not in state to fulfill everyone's demand. To demand something from the government at this stage means to rape them politically instead of helping them to build the nation. Education doesn't play much part in civilization, which was proved by our doctors in several occasions. Some years ago, Doctors were in strike to protest against the students who have completed the MBBS degrees from China, lately those doctors were again in strike in Teaching hospital. So, the educated human like doctors, whose halt in services could be death of hundreds of people could go on strike then what can I aspect from the uneducated civil Nepali.
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