We agree with critics of GONe who have serious misgivings about the size of the current Cabinet. They are absolutely right, it is just not big enough. How can the spoils be divided (and multiplied) with only 5 Deputy Prime Ministers, 32 ministers,12 ministers of state, and a handful of others lying in state?
For a country with so much potential and kinetic energy, it is a shame that we deliberately hold ourselves back by being hesitant and timid. How does the Prima-facie Minister Awesome think he is going to go about solving all the problems we have in this country if his cabinet is so seriously understaffed? For national construction and reconstruction to go on a war footing, we need an army of ministers, not just the pathetic platoon we have now in Singha Darbar. To make Nepal great again, we need to think big. It is a skeleton Cabinet with skeletons in its cabinet. Need to add meat to it.
There is a lot of uncertainty about on again off again elections. About 15 minutes ago it was certain, now it’s suddenly become iffy. But not to worry, we are sure that within the next hour or so polls will be certain again. An election needs to be conducted in a free and fair manner, and the best way to guarantee that is to have all the parties in a national government so that the cheating cancels itself out. This is the perfect opportunity to expand the cabinet and create employment. Every minister has a multiplier effect on the economy and hence the labour market.
The jumbo cabinet as a jumbo job creation opportunity that will bring down our national umemployment rate by several percentage points, reduce the number of Nepalis migrating abroad to work, and have downstream benefits. Every minister can hire bodyguards, peons, cooks, drivers, wives, personal assistants, hangers-on, flunkies, middlemen, goons, extortionists and a couple of pet donkeys. The Primeval Minister should ignore critics, and just go ahead and enlarge his cabinet some more.