Ashwani Kumar Chrungoo
ashwanikc2012@gmail.com
The recent socio-political developments in Nepal have been discussed in various contexts in India. Some narratives see these developments in a series of events taking place in our neighbourhood for the last a few years. Prominent among them are the political upheavals happening in Pakistan, Myanmar, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and now in Nepal. Many commentators see foreign hand and the intervention of the deep state in these developments. However, some others call these upheavals indigenously constructed or manufactured and locally nurtured by the younger generation (which they term as Gen-Z) of the respective nations.
Pakistan is a semi-military and semi-democratic republic where the centres of power keep playing the musical chair 24x7x365 days. Having obsessed with the Islamic terrorism on the one hand, it is also in a race with the other banana republics who keep on asking for funds with the begging bowl in their hand before every nation with whom it has religious or strategic relationship. Practically it is a failed nation that is dependent upon imports for virtually everything that has the potential to run the polity of the nation. Terrorism, regional tensions, violence and killings in Balochistan and Khaiber Pakhtooh Khua are a routine matter for Pakistan. De jure Pakistan has an elected government but de facto it has a military regime where a failed Army General, masquerading as a super political figure, has been awarded the position of a Field Marshal without winning even a single war.
There have been instances in all the above referred countries in our neighbourhood where changes/s in the government took place following strong public ‘uprising/s’. People in these countries besides exercising their political options for the change went for street protests, processions, large & medium-scale violence and destruction. What happened in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal is noteworthy in this context. While people and particularly the uncontrolled younger generations went berserk and even entered the highest seats of power like PM’s office and residence, parliament, President’s residence and office and even Supreme Court of the respective nations, large scale loot and destruction was brought in these highly sensitive political centres. For all practical purposes, these developments have also downgraded the economic, political, social and security related status of the nations involved in these upheavals.
Wide-spread mayhem and arson were seen even in other major cities and towns in the affected nations during these violent protests. In Bangladesh, people including government officers and policemen were thrashed, beaten to death and hanged publicly by the unruly rampaging mobs. The symbols of national icons were desecrated and destroyed without any remorse or repentance. Hindu minorities in particular became the victim of the targeted violence unleashed by the mobs in which a number of them were killed, their homes and business houses looted and burnt and even the places of worship destroyed. The Hindu and Buddhist minorities in Bangladesh in various districts were compelled to come on streets and protest against the lawlessness and the communal outrage consequent upon grave human rights violations against them and pointed attacks on their womenfolk.
It is often said that the American deep state was involved in Bangladesh in the ‘uprising’ against the Sheikh Hasina Government which she confirmed in her statement after the coup when she was whisked away by the army in Bangladesh and safely brought to India. Bangladesh has been a big recipient of funds from abroad through the government and the non-governmental channels for several decades on one pretext or the other. The influences these foreign funds carried along with them over the last several decades have played their role and caused great havoc in the social-political scenario of the country. The current Chief Advisor of Bangladesh government, Mohammad Yunus is a recognised face of these influences and intrigues.
Sri Lanka was no less ‘unfortunate’ in this connection. Barring any communal insinuations, the mobs went for rampage and made their entry into the important centres of national recognition including the President’s palace. People all over the world watched Sri Lankan youth destroying their own nation by their actions. China’s influences in Sri Lanka are an open secret and these have made Sri Lanka a big debtor of China for several decades to come. Like Maldives, Sri Lanka also turned towards India for help and support in the economic field. Its political and economic instability caused a great concern to its people in the island nation and it will be poised to fight for a long time in the next course of time against this instability.
Nepal has emerged as the latest nation to get destroyed internally due to the orchestrated public anger against the government and the people in power in the government. The political and other influences in Nepal from its neighbouring nation in the north, China, are well known. The utter failure of the governments led by the Nepali Congress and the Communist-Maoist parties over the last two decades post monarchy era is seen as a major cause of the public uprising in Nepal. Its connections with elements outside the country are also established who worked for a change in the establishment. The most tragic and deplorable act of attacking Pashupatinath Temple signalled towards the activity of the jehadi elements in Nepal and especially in Kathmandu.
The irony is that Nepal has seen a dozen Prime Ministers within a period of two decades coupled with change of governments so frequently. This scenario thus pushed the political and economic stability of the nation into a big quagmire of questions. However, the organisers and the protesters in Nepal squarely blamed the pampered and the specially treated kiths and kins of the politicians in the government for the public anger. They called this big band of sons, daughters and other kith & kin of politicians as Nepokids, who were and are nurtured on nepotism towards them. Many of this particular tribe are accused of lavishing in foreign countries at the expense of the tax-payers in Nepal.
There are elements in India who have been drawing a parallel between these situations in our neighbourhood and the socio-political scenario in our country, without any reason. Their doing so is by and large inspired & guided by their consistent failures to win elections and occupying the seats of power for the last more than a decade. Their false sense of entitlement also played its role in their such a campaign for the last a number of years. On every given occasion, these elements led by the Congress, try to instigate public and foment trouble in the name of anger and dissatisfaction among the citizens against the Government. Unfortunately, the biggest Nepokid of India, Rahul Gandhi, the LoP in the Lok Sabha is in the front of such a campaign of the opposition parties and their echo-system, primarily active in the media.
In the new context, after the gory happenings in Nepal, they are openly claiming to represent the anger against the government and the state institutions established by law by instigating the Gen-Z in India. They expect them to ignite a similar uprising in India as well so that they get the opportunity to encash the same to their favour. In a sense, they want the Gen-Z to placate them by their unlawful and illegal actions on the ground against the duly elected government and also the nation-state and go berserk and off the track to the benefit of the Nepokids in India so that they seek realisation of their sense of entitlement.
From Rahul Gandhi to various opposition leaders of the current era, all fall in the category of Nepokids. These comprise besides Rahul, Akhilesh Yadav, Tejasvi Yadav, Uddhav Thackery, Aditya Thakre, MK Stalin, Udhaunidhi Stalin, Omar Abdullah, Supriya Sule, Hemant Soren, Sukhbir Badal, Mehbooba Mufti, Abhishek Banerjee, Gaurav Gogoi, Misa Bharti, Priyanka Vadra and sundries. They have developed one common aim to defame and dislodge the Modi government by hook or by crook and are guided, helped and inspired by many forces outside India who want to see a ‘destroyed India’ rather than an advancing India. All their attempts have failed in the past when they tried to create unrest in the name of Note-bandi, CAA, GST, surgical strikes, farmers agitation, Covid19 regulations, Sanvidhan-bachao slogans, caste-census, Operation Sindoor and the latest the so-called vote-chori.
The Congress under Rahul Gandhi lost 90 elections held after the 2014-verdict which elected the BJP government at the Centre. Even after the 2024-verdict in regard to the Lok Sabha, the Congress miserably lost elections in three states, Haryana, Maharashtra and Delhi. In J&K and Jharkhand, it was decimated to a very insignificant position. However, in its latest bid, in the aftermath of the Nepal political turbulence, it appealed to the Gen-Z to come out openly and support the ‘Vote-Chori’ campaign of the Congress against the Modi led NDA government. The Gen-Z in India in the latest expression of its intent did the opposite of it. It voted ABVP to victory in major universities throughout the length and breadth of the country. It overwhelmingly supported ABVP in Delhi University, Hyderabad Central University, Punjab University, Gauhati University and the JNU, thus giving a befitting reply to Rahul Gandhi and his coterie by inflicting a crushing defeat to them at the hustings.
The results of these elections depict in general the mood of the Gen-Z in India very clearly. The Gen-Z considers the opposition leaders in India deeply involved in the toolkit of the deep state working against our national interests. They treat them as the Nepokids who have developed a sense of entitlement to rule the citizens sans any desirable qualification, merit and work. Moreover, the Indian masses and especially the Gen-Z are conscious of their duties and responsibilities as the citizens of the nation and wouldn’t themselves be guided by a fake narrative in regard to any sort of unrest, uprising or mass-violence in the country. However, what was done in Ladakh on 24 September 2025 is a trailer of the intent, conspiracy and mindset of the Congress and the deep state agents in India.
Nepokids in India stand fully exposed before the Gen-Z and the whole nation. We are a great democracy and have firm faith in our constitution, democratic set-up and the constitutional institutions. Historically, the Indian masses, by instinct, respect the people’s verdict and thus have firm faith in the leadership of the nation that is currently in the able & strong hands of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
(The author is a senior BJP & KP leader)
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