Did Ex-King Gyanendra Really Quit Palace at Midnight?

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Originally published in www.groundreport.com/mohannepali

The properties within the Narayanhiti Palace have not been calculated as no one was allowed to raise any question regarding the royal family members and their palace before. But people have now begun to raise questions regarding the properties in the palace.

 It is natural for the people to take interest in their own properties used by the royal family members before. The Ex-king and his relatives used different public properties as their own. Those who raised any question regarding monarchy would be considered anti-state. Now with the implementation of republic, many questions will be raised regarding the deeds of former monarchy. People are even likely to reiterate their debate on the 6/1 massacre (2001). The ex-royal family members do have untaxed and illegal properties worth billions. Who will answer for them?

While the government was preparing to send an official letter to Ex-King Gyanendra ordering him to depart from the palace for ever because the republic has been implemented, today’ Nayapatrika daily wrote that former king Gyanendra ran away from the palace at 00:45 using the north gate of the palace. The daily even claims that many trucks carrying properties followed him. In the mean time, the government says it has not obtained any official information from Gyanendra about his departure from the palace.

If the news that former king Gyanendra ran away from the palace at midnight without informing the government of Nepal, some kind of investigation into theft may be necessary because the palace did have not only private but also public properties, though never audited by the Office of the Auditor General of Nepal. No inventory about the properties in the palace has been made available to the media so far. So much is still nontransparent about the palace and the ex-king’s activities. So many questions are likely to remain unanswered.

However, people are eager to see timely and proper actions to make the majority of working class people feel that a real democratic republic has been initiated. “We can’t see real republic unless the Nepal government can confiscate all illegal properties and weapons stored secretly by the ex-King,” said one restaurant waiter Rajan, who curiously stood, like many others, in front of the south gate of the Narayanhiti Palace Durbar Marg. Adding to his words, student Prajwol Aitahang said, “with the same illegal properties and latest weapons, he [ex-king] may create troubles in the near future.” Aitahang adds, this man [he means Gyanendra] is so greedy that he captured all the properties of late King Birendra and all of his family members who died in the Narayanhiti carnage. Now also, he may have stolen many invaluable things from the palace, which is the public property.”

Indeed, the ordinary people have long-term thoughts in their minds. But one still wonders why the government fueled by people’s invincible power trembles about doing according to people’s genuine agenda.