Darjeeling: Nobody knew journalist Gopal Gurung before the autocratic panchayat regime of Nepal put him behind bars.
Five years later Gurung, founder president of the anti-Hindu and anti-Aryan Mongol National Organization, is fighting tooth and nail for the removal of King Birendra because he is a Hindu and Aryan.
Since the birth of the Mongol National Organization two years ago, his politics of Hindu-baiting has traveled beyond the frontiers of the world’s only Hindu kingdom. He does not want Nar Bahadur Bhandari, a Hindu Aryan, to continue to rule over the Nepalis of Mongoloid stock whom he prefers to call simply “Mongols,” in Sikkim.
Buddhist origin: He insisted that all Nepalis of Mongoloid origin were Buddhists, and not Hindus. The warlike Mongoloids form the bulk of the Gorkha regiments in Britain, Nepal and India. Asked whether or not his own name, Gopal, made him a Hindu, the Kathmandu-based leader now in his mid- fifties, quipped: “I had no control over my birth or my naming. Now I know I am a Buddhist and have the right to die a Buddhist.”
Gurung, now edits two Kathmandu based weeklies, Thunderbolt in English and New Light in Nepali, said. The “reawakening” among the Mongoloid Nepalis, he felt, was mostly due to his book in Nepali, Nepal ko Rajniti Akedah Sachchai Haru (The Hidden Facts, About Nepal’s Politics), which has run into three editions since it first appeared five years ago.
It was due to this book, which highlights the suppression of Mongoloid Nepalis by Aryan Nepalis, that Gurung was sent to jail for 18 months. It was in jail that he conceived the formation of MNO and also designed its motto and flag. (Telegraph June 6)
