This wiered jatra at Kupandole

I was more than shocked to see some cops stopping me from entering my home yesterday at noon. It was okay for me to come out of my home at Kupandole and cross the bridge in the morning but when I wanted to return home, the cops said it was not allowed. For what good reason? They said there is "Kupandole Jatra". Hell.

A couple of gundas - on behalf of 'Friends Club' wanted to have fun by blocking the main road and letting some fashionable girls stroll all the day along the road. Does this mean that one million residents of Kathmandu and Lalitpur have to suffer? Is it what you call Loktantra?

It was surprising enough to see the Maosits cadres at the Janabargiya Office in the middle of Kupandol were just helpless and watching in the mood of Lata-le kera hereko jasto. And you know better what kind of police we have - you pay them thick bucks and they will help you commit the most heinous crime in the broad day light. Their support for the jatra is just another example.

We know Kupandole and the Thapathali bridge is the only (usable) link between Kathmandu and Lalitpur. Nearly one-third the population of the valley live there. It is the only straight link road to Sainbu, Bhainsepati, Khokana, Bungamati, Satdobato, Thaiba, Thecho, Harisiddhi, Chapagaon and many more villages of the south. People do not use the road only for merrymaking. It helps people to bring commodity to bazaar, take necessary things from Kathmandu, take patients to hospitals and also to visit people for socialisation. See what a small whim of a group of people can destroy the whole chain of civilisation.

I wonder, have the Friends taken any permission to hold that chaos in their area? What kind of administration is it if they really had. And what makes somebody authority to let a group of people to use the road in a what that it violates rights of millions? What is the use of the tax we pay on road if we cannot use it when we want it? We now and again condemn the bandh-callers. But, is there anybody to say something on this kind of bandh, which is in fact a blockade of the kind PrithiNarayan Shah slapped 240 years ago to have things done in the way he wanted.

Speak up man, or I will hod another jatra in front of your house tomorrow!