I totally agree with pritaz here. To highlight some of the corruptions and misdeeds of our "Past Leaders and Administrators" I would like to point out my first hand experiences.
1. Girija Koirala: While giving interview on CNN, he was asked a question "How many Bhutani refugees do you think are there in Nepal ?". Girija's answer was "Two Hundred Million". The interviewer was I guess Christian Amanpour and she interrupted Girija "Are you sure of it ?". Girija replied "I am sure". Then Christian Amanpour said "We are having some difficulty here, lets go for a break. We shall be back in a while". Later when the program resumed Girija corrected himself saying "I wished to say Two hundred thousand".
2. Bijaya Kumar Gachhadar: He was called upon for the first time to the Palace by the Late King Birendra after restoration of so called Demo-Crazy. I saw him in Kupondole. He asked for a lift with a person about to go to his office on Motor Bike. He did not even had the Black Nepali Topi and looked utterly ruggish. He borrowed that too from the person in Motor Bike. That time everyone admired him and I sensed that the person in Motorbike felt proud to lend him his Nepali Topi and a free ride to Palace. After not more than 10 years, I was returning back to Kathmandu from Kakadbhitta in one of the buses of the fleet of Mr. Gachhadar. He is the owner of several bus fleets now.
3. Chiranjibi Wagle: I was then working as a resident engineer (2002). Nepal was in total crisis with not many development projects running. I happened to be in a meeting of hiring of consultant to the Third Road project. Chiranjibi Wagle was some minister that time. So my firm (where I was employed) tried to negotiate with Devendra Wagle, son of Chiranjibi Wagle as it was mandatory for the consultants to talk to him without any reason. Prince Devendra Wagle said that he has already awarded that to another consultant but if we give him the guarantee money of 1 million NRs he will make sure that another Consultancy job will come to our hand. Strange isn't it ?
4. Jay Prakash Prasad Gupta: I was still working as a resident engineer (2002). Unfortunately there was no phone in the site. The NTC was distributing the Tel. lines as immediately if anyone pays 25000 NRs at that time. So we also filed an application for that. But we didn't get the phone. It was notified to us that as it is related to project, it will be dealt by upper level. The level reached to Jay Prakash Prasad Gupta. He literally demanded NRs. 2 Lakhs just for one phone line which legally, we could get in NRs 25000.
I would like to hear more of such events happening in Nepal where many other fellow Nepalese had been victimized. I hope this inturn will make people believe that support for these people are truly meaningless.
