The Kathmandu Valley early Tuesday morning. I too wondered what’s that ‘good death’ was and whose this was.Yes, it was stunning news of the untimely demise of the Nepali Congress President and former Prime Minister Sushil Koirala that was spreading shock waves all across the country and Nepali diaspora abroad.
The reason behind the public saying ‘comfortable, good death’ is that leader Koirala was not heard bed-ridden for long or admitted to hospital for serious health before he breathed his last. He in a way died a sudden death.
His demise obviously threw wonder, significantly because most of the media failed to cover news on his death (12:50am Tuesday, 9 Feb). Only the State-run Gorkhapatra daily and its sister publication The Rising Nepal covered the news by stopping the press. The private newspapers becoming already stale in the early Tuesday morning shows the lack of journalistic activism and credibility to a great extent.
Now, the demise of the towering democracy fighter, near octogenarian stalwart, has created a big loss, a vacuity in Nepali politics which is yet to get out of complex transition and to the party building of the Nepali Congress. Why? The reasons abound.
Nepali politics which frequently suffered from different setbacks was just making a headway to peace and development with the way paved significantly by the new constitution promulgated through the Constituent Assembly, the body of people’s representatives Nepalis coveted for over six-decade. This very important responsibility was carried out under the capable leadership of Sushil Koirala.
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