Dear Dr. Bhattarai,
I neither hope you will ever read this letter nor believe
you are a man capable of answering to it which obviously needs peering beyond
your devastatingly narrow cocoon that stretches merely from Singha Durbar to
your party office.
In my second mail to you I had cautioned you of so many
traps ahead after seeing your blunders that were unexpected to many. You chose
to ignore them and here you are now, a man thoroughly despised and sneered by
very people who had placed very high hopes on you.

It gives me immense pain to realize that, while there are
limits of how high one can rise in terms of the accomplishments, there seem to
be no such limits on how deep one can fall into disgrace. Of course you are not
the only victim and Nepal’s political domain is monopoly of precisely that kind
of people. In fact, you have come as a model of how worst to fall in a morass
and many generations will now remember you as a man of widely believed
capability and integrity ruined so thoroughly and so early by the power that
the well-wishers were forced to turn into critics so swiftly.
Dear Dr. Bhattarai,
We neither expect you to bring an economic miracle in Nepal
nor to challenge a powerful neighbor. Neither do we expect you to cleanse the thoroughly
corrupt political system in Nepal, nor do we expect you to wipe the poverty in
the country with a magic wand. The only thing we want is, now that the
impotency of all the politicians has left the country stranded and bewildered
in a challenging world without a constitution, you at least spare some of the
structures and institutions in the country from the plague of political
interference that threatens their existence itself.
I am writing this letter precisely because your latest
activities have targeted these institutions with such a criminal zeal that soon
the public institutions in the country may be history, just as was the case
with Sajha Yatayat. While you are busy with calculations of who will get what
by appointing whom in which institution, the institutions meanwhile face a real
existential threat. Letting these institutions in the hands of utterly
unprofessional sycophants is the perfect recipe for their collapse.