Prem Prasad Acharya’s self-immolation in front of the parliament building on Tuesday before hundreds of onlookers has raised some serious questions.
Your death on Wednesday it has raised even more questions to the government together with the capitalist society. Acharya left with questions those in power must answer. These questions are strong and affect all members of the public. Perhaps that is why the Council of Ministers met on Wednesday promising to discuss these issues in the coming days. It was followed by the decision of the Ministry of the Interior of commission a committee.
One thing is clear, when the rule of law is weak, those without access to the people in power feel powerless. This results in a person losing all hope and faith and it is then that he realizes how weak he is and gives up the will to live.
Taking the life of another person or one’s own is a crime. However, sometimes such offenses turn into rebellion. After all, isn’t it the way the state is run that pushes people to do this? Perhaps we should look at the death of Prem Prasad Acharya from that perspective.
Perhaps it is time we start looking at how the state has become compatible with all of this, as others like Acharya are also taking these steps. The government knows it. But how long can they hold people back and find out why all this is happening?
Big questions for the big ones
The death of Prem Prasad Acharya has indicated that dissatisfaction is growing in Kathmandu, the center of state power. People are making this known. In recent elections, people chose not to vote for the status quo. There have been protests demanding a better country and self-immolation incidents like this just show how frustrated people are to the point that they are willing to set themselves on fire in the middle of the road.
Why do people live under the control of a state? Because they believe that it will protect their life and property when they are in trouble. But, when they feel that the state system is only there to discourage and rob them, they realize that enough is enough.
This incident has also shaken the Nepalese society. It is not just the government or those in power who have been affected. It has also affected the business, labor and financial sectors.
Nepal is a country where many young men and women in a foreign country return home in wooden boxes. Nepal is a country where an ambulance comes to pick up the body of a dead person who was traveling on a bus as she did not have money for an ambulance. Nepal is a country where the government distributes firewood after hearing news of people dying due to cold. Nepal is a broken country.
Frustrated with all this, some people walk towards Maitighar Mandala with a question: is this a country or a slaughterhouse?
The contradiction of having to listen to the dream of prosperity in speeches and having to live a life of scarcity every day is increasing frustration among citizens. The despair of one person is slowly turning into the despair of the masses. If the government wants to stop this, it must be vigilant that what happened in Kathmandu on Tuesday does not happen again. You need to create an environment for people to live freely in the country, otherwise a storm is coming and the government won’t know what hit them.
Of course, not everything we do in life will be successful. Prem Prasad Acharya also failed in companies in which he had invested. Frustrated, he decided to stop living. But he left with an important question: is this country only for the corrupt and not for the hard working?
let them work
Acharya felt that he was robbed by everyone, from banks to insurance, from government offices to big companies. You have listed the atrocities committed against him in his note. His series of struggles for success in life is amazing.
His 6,553-word note will make anyone cry. If we separate the emotion from the note, you will find how he has tried to highlight our social financial structure in it.
He said that he was sacrificing his life so that the government would listen to his suffering and pain. This move of yours has also raised questions about our social structure and our political system, which do not listen or understand a citizen until he chooses the path of death. Before setting fire to his body, he came to a disappointing conclusion about the country: “This country is corrupt; here there is discrimination and injustice step by step”.
What will happen if the State does not regulate the market system? The self-immolation of Prem Prasad Acharya is part of the price paid by the young generation trying to venture into the business world today.
Looking at the complaints he posted on social media, it looks like a systematic demand letter. In it, she has said that some foreign families and companies have taken over the Nepali market and have demanded the government to release it to them.
He has also asked the government to force companies to pay in advance so that the farmer does not get discouraged. Demands have been raised to discourage corruption during grant distribution and job approval and calls for an end to the go-between role. However, this is not the first time that he or anyone else has raised such a lawsuit.
revolution in sight
James DeFronzo, a sociologist at the University of Connecticut, is famous for his theory of revolution. He has argued that collective despair arises from the phenomenon of relative scarcity.
The main task of revolutionary ideology is to provide as many people as possible with the same or a compatible vision of the need for social change so that they are motivated to help in the revolutionary struggle, he says.
In his opinion, for the rebellion, the nation needs to go through a historical process of this type where the sharp decline of the economy limits the physical conditions of life and the capacities of citizens. As the gap between people’s expectations and the government’s ability to meet those expectations widens, extreme frustration among citizens is born.
Millions of young people have to go abroad because they see no future in the country. All they see is the same old men ruling one by one. They see these men as opportunists who don’t understand how to create a fair system for the fall. All these leaders have been able to do is create callous mechanisms, poor economic policies, and promote corruption. Everyone knows this, but nothing has changed in the country, so Prem Prasad Acharya feels powerless.
Even the newly elected leaders gave Acharya no hope. In his note, he has asked leaders to open their eyes and solve the problems that plague ordinary people.
The spark of the powerful Arab revolution, which led to a coup throughout the Middle East and Arab countries, began with the Self-immolation of unemployed educated youth in Tunisia.
In late 2010, the demonstration that began after 26-year-old Mohamed Bouazizi self-immolated in Tunisia turned into a massive mass movement and he became the hero of the revolution that overthrew the Arab dictator. That revolution spread beyond the borders of one country and spread throughout the Middle East and Arab countries.
He Arab Spring which began after Bouazizi set himself on fire when unable to do business in the street market and succeeded in overthrowing President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who had been in power for 23 years. Ben Ali and his family, who fled the country, have also been charged with crimes against humanity and corruption.
The Arab revolution was born out of a struggle between wealthy rulers and citizens with a low standard of living. This shows that the options of oppressed citizens are narrowing due to the excesses imposed by corruption, bureaucracy and bureaucracy.
Here in Nepal, Prem Prasad Acharya has written in the note: “I wanted to have fun with my daughters, I wanted to make them good citizens, I wanted to hold my wife in my arms forever. But all these are just wishes. Where I go? Who do I tell?
Bouazizi’s last words were also similar. Before setting himself on fire, he questioned-How do you want me to still live?
