To conclude,there is existence of nepotism, favoritism, monopoly and arrogant attitude resulting no second generation leader for LGBT in Nepal. No wonder pinnacle issues has caused suffering for so many LGBT at this crucial juncture. Time has come for international community to understand that there is existence of many LGBT across Nepal rather than counting some and need to focus on decentralization, emphasizing end of monopoly and dictatorship.

MEGALOMANIA IN A HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANISATION: THE CASE OF NEPAL’S BLUE DIAMOND SOCIETY AND SUNIL BABU PANT
Kedar Maharjan
1. Issue
As a Nepalese-born gay man who’s suffered discrimination – and watched others close to me also suffer because of that – I’ve everything to gain from supporting a local gay rights NGO as well as a South Asian gay games that this NGO is organizing for Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu. What compels me then to call on the international lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender identified (LGBTI) community across the globe to boycott the games and why should I denounce their chief organizer as a phony?
The NGO concerned is Nepal’s Blue Diamond Society (BDS). This organization was spawned a decade ago in a whirlpool of national politics when overnight the small Himalayan kingdom was precariously yet peaceably transformed, not just into a republic, but an inclusive one could potentially embrace the country’s remote populations, its multiple ethnicities, its women, and its social minorities.
The BDS was the brainchild of Sunil Babu Pant (nicknamed ‘Panties’ behind his back) the objects of which were dedicated ostensibly to attainment of civil equality for Nepal’s historically oppressed sexual minorities. Given the reality that vestiges of feudalism and patriarchy would persist in Nepal’s national psyche long after the monarchy’s removal, it was predictable that the BDS would court controversy. Although political modernisation has successfully unpeeled layers of tradition in several areas of Nepalese life, the country’s LGBTI people are still largely ignored and unrepresented.
The political activism of the BDS has frequently caught spotlights in international human rights advocacy circles. It’s also heightened Nepalese awareness of the existence (and plight) of sexual minorities. Paradoxically, the everyday quality of life for Nepal’s LGBTI people stays unchanged – in fact, their oppression might be worsening. While this turnaround can be partly attributed to the fragility of Nepal’s neonate democracy, the organization’s corporate dysfunction, disturbing reports of which are published with increasing frequency, is rapidly sabotaging both the public credibility of the BDS and the cause of Nepalese LGBTI rights.
The picture of the BDS that has latterly emerged is sickening. The organization has degenerated into shop-front of drag-queens who camouflage Pant’s parasitic pursuit of political ambition. The most obvious of several unanswered questions is why the BDS’s record in protecting Nepal’s LGBTI people is so abysmal when overseas funding in support of its objects seems limitless? Another is why only a coterie of transgendered (TG) people, who are also on the BDS payroll and beholden to Pant for their jobs, seems to comprise the organization’s main beneficiaries?
2. Background
At first glance, reasons for the BDS’s scant effectiveness in achieving LGBTI rights could be multiple. There are indications that the organization wants for strategic vision and agenda, this being attributable to inadequate leadership and managerial skill. There is likelihood that BDS research and field workers are unqualified for their roles. It’s probable that there’s too often a mismatch between noble objects of donor-backed projects and grass-roots needs which a majority of Nepalese LGBTI people faces on a daily basis.
Fingers also point to the corporate governance of the BDS, together with its underpinning culture which, contrasted with NGOs in the advanced democracies of the West, is characteristically autocratic, hierarchical, and secretive. In such an environment, it’s expected that harassment, abuse, falsification of data, financial manipulation and sham services will flourish. As with many a dysfunctional organization - be it entrepreneurial or eleemosynary - the cronyism and nepotism metastasizing within the BDS are ineradicable cancers.
Pant, who’s unchallenged as the public face of the BDS, has successfully marketed Nepalese LGBTI people and causes abroad among writers, activists, journalists, and lawyers. Prey to a glamorous but superficial media charade of fabricated case stories, presumably spun from Pant’s pen, these generous and sincere international donors back the movement, gullibly believing that their largesse will enable delivery of positive societal outcomes.
From my experience of the past year, the BDS has become wholly ambivalent to the oppression of gay, lesbian and bisexual people and now focuses its attention largely on the TG community, which the Indian subcontinent euphemistically calls the ‘third gender’. This is the face of same-sex engagement with which Nepalese in particular are traditionally comfortable, the notion being that a homosexual man is a woman who’s coffined in a male body. As it utterly defies modern scientific understanding of same-sex attraction to the point of denial, the concept of ‘third gender’ is not only farcical; it's also one that I steadfastly refuse to recognize.
3. The ‘Spice Girls’ and their ‘Panties’
‘Panties’ professes to be gay with a liking for silver-maned sugar-daddies. While presenting himself to the global press as Nepal’s first openly homosexual parliamentarian, he stops at nothing to keep his homosexual ‘daddy-son’ liaisons hidden from the gaze of the Nepalese public, for whom an unscientific world view still holds sway.
Rumours abound among his gaggle of bisexual lovers that his political drive compensates for an underperformance on the mattress. So dependent is ‘Panties’ supposed to be on poppers and potions, the joke among his detractors is that the BDS is no more than a paper contrivance through which he can clandestinely exchange ‘blue diamonds’ for ‘blue pills’.
In my own associations with the BDS and Pant, I’ve hardly met any gay, lesbian or bisexual person but I’ve certainly seen trains of TGs approach BDS for various kinds of services. It was the case that the BDS organised a beauty contest for Nepalese TGs as a publicity stunt but, by not advertising the event nationally, Pant’s payroll puppets ensured that contestants were confined to BDS employees and their hangers-on.
Many TGs who are on the BDS payroll are paid a monthly wage of US $40, which is scarcely enough to cover rent, let alone buy food and clothes. I was therefore unperturbed when one underpaid TG employee blatantly boasted that he/she frequently tricked from BDS headquarters and other public venues to support himself/herself.
BDS has provided vocational training to certain of its staff in the fields of beautician, three-wheeler tempo driving, and basic frontline management. There’s no apparent evidence of providing entry-level employment skills to other LGBTI people. Given the paucity of professional qualifications, broad-based job-enriching experiences, and attested skill among current BDS employees, my personal summation is that none would win a post in any other NGO involved with human rights advocacy or public health promotion.
In such an environment it’s those BDS employees who pander to Pant that are rewarded with promotion and appointments to better paid jobs. As it’s comprised of meaningless foreign material that’s mechanically translated into Nepali – with no cultural contextualization or tailoring to address local challenges, empowerment training he currently provides to his lackeys is yet another device in Pant’s propaganda toolbox by which he entices his foreign audience to loosen its purse-strings. Rather than generate enduring empowerment, the training will inevitably sabotage Nepal’s LGBTI human rights cause.
Employees have claimed that, under Pant’s watch, the BDS introduced two sets of accounts, one set yielding a financial report for overseas donors’ benefit and the other for that of local employees. The donors’ report perpetuates the myth of the BDS’s commitment to social justice, as shown in the comparable salaries ostensibly paid to all staff members. The employees’ report reflects a totally different situation.
4. Child Abuse Allegation
Pant’s Jekyll-and-Hyde character surfaced when Nepalese TV news broadcast an allegation that he’d physically and psychologically abused an underage male domestic. As Pant was a sitting MP at the time, the news was of public interest. Despite repeated denials and attempts at its suppression, this particular allegation continues to dog Pant.
The allegation was repeatedly aired on Nepalese TV news but was kept from Pant’s international donor network. If the veracity of the allegation were judicially tested, the child rights organisation that represented the victim holds sufficient evidence to confirm the incident.
5. HIV/AIDS Prevention
In the crucially pivotal area of HIV and STD prevention, the BDS does little to promote safe sex practice amongst LGBTI Nepalese. Workers engaged to distribute condoms and lubricants, as well as perform outreach education trick whilst on the job. BDS management is aware of this practice but does nothing to prevent it.
In mobilising support for LGBTI rights across the nation, the BDS has had a woeful impact. Project and program evaluation is an anathema to BDS leadership. Tragically, while the LGBTI community has had only a handful of confirmed HIV/AIDS cases, those sufferers who are other than TG have been too embarrassed to approach the BDS for advice on treatment and support. The BDS has never explicitly refuted claims that it has actually processed only about 300 HIV sufferers instead of the published throughput of 5,000. There are allegations of the BDS providing HIV clinical and support services to heterosexual people (sometimes to the disadvantage of LGBTI sufferers) so as to conflate BDS statistics.
By excluding stakeholder interests in BDS governance and resisting external scrutiny of organizational activities and finances, Pant’s intransigence has led the local reputation of the organization to irreversibly nosedive: in the eyes of local LGBTI people, the BDS is an object of ridicule, and its leadership, embodied as it is in Pant’s duplicitous personality, a laughingstock. Pant’s ‘my way or the highway!’ style of control, typifies corporate megalomania and organisational psychopath (who often cling on the position for financial benefits rather than making organisation grow as a credible and accountable one same time knows how to falsify testimonies towards donors to gain sympathy, knows how to disconnect from donors to other staff, very savvy to talk in languages to persuade his position and have sex drive which he conduct even at his office).
6. Kathmandu’s LGBTI Games
For some time, the BDS has advertised LGBTI games as a South Asian-wide event. Even though none pursues any kind of sport day-to-day, the BDS has sponsored several of its own employees as prospective competitors but failed to enable, engage, encourage or welcome other LGBTI sports people (especially those with natural sporting prowess or talent) to join the event. This is yet another strategy designed to impress donors and, at the same time, quarantine Nepal’s LGBTI people who aren’t on the BDS payroll.
The reality will be that the games are a private event that’s depicted across the airwaves of the wider world, not only as a public one, but also as one which is inclusive of all LGBTI athletes and competitors from Nepal, as well as other Asian countries.
7. Lesbians
The BDS has never repudiated the allegation that a lesbian organization, Mitini Nepal, made concerning its plan to organize an event as part of the LGBTI games. In Mitini Nepal’s case, Pant is alleged to have blatantly rejected the plan for the laughable reason that lesbian competitors would ‘dishearten’ BDS employees.
BDS indifference to the plight of Nepal’s lesbians is pitiless. In September 2012, a violated mother and self-identified lesbian, Rajani Sahi, endured indescribable trauma that also entailed multiple violations of universal human rights. Owing to widespread ignorance of human sexuality that prevails in Nepal, her extended family and caste community had Rajani forcibly restrained, institutionalised, medicated and deprived of liberty. Whereas the BDS ignored Rajani’s case, the Maiti Nepal organization came to her aid. This response aligns with what most international aid workers have long known: it’s a developing country’s most vulnerable women who often provide quality leadership in times of crisis.
Another instance of the BDS’s appalling mistreatment of lesbians was recently shown when, in response to a sexual assault on a BDS lesbian worker by a senior female employee, the victim was dismissed because she sued the perpetrator. No action was apparently taken to eliminate future workplace sexual harassment within the BDS. Worse, the BDS provided no special protection or support to the victim. Recently one of the prominent member of BDS and a key person (Badri Pun) of board member has been sacked because she has been asking for transparency and accountability towards LGBTI community of Nepal. According to Badri Pun, She has been emotionally traumatised and pressured to get a third gender citizenship without understanding the real implications of having third gender identity in the country as well as internationally. The real question arise here is has Sunil acquired third gender identity himself? Probably not because he is a savvy communicator who has successfully enticed global LGBTI funders by their not because he leadership is credible just because he knows how to sell his ass to so called industrialised ass holes of the international aid business, the real culprits of the human rights who not only blatantly funded such organisation without scrutiny but also trying to suppress the LGBTI movement who are asking for transparency and accountability. Although these donors did try to meet the concern people or victims of BDS in reality these were act of showing teeth not the munching teeth.
8. Suicide
In many countries, the oppression of vulnerable LGBTI people leads to their suicide; Nepal is no exception and here the incidence appears to be rising. Although most of these deaths are reported as intoxication, cirrhosis of the liver and other alcohol-related abuse, the BDS has been spineless in investigating the extent of this trend and its underlying causes.
9. Research
Over the decade of its existence, the BDS has neither produced nor supported nor funded any independent systematic credible research into Nepal’s LGBTI communities. The BDS has no links to any Nepalese university or overseas research centre which specializes in gender studies or human rights. The view that’s widely shared among BDS critics is that the organisation’s leadership clique is paranoid over what shams, scams, and related racketeering independent researchers might expose. With no employment security or ethos of protected disclosure, the numerous BDS employees who fear Pant are terrified of retribution should they dare criticize his leadership.
In televised presentations (especially on Nepal’s NTV ‘Pahichan’ - ‘identity’ – program), Pant has had ample opportunity to openly share struggles stemming from his own sexuality and has never done so. He avoids debate and discussion with notable local and global commentators and experts involved with the politics of sexuality and gender identity. With financial support from international activists, Pant has mounted a challenge in Nepal’s Supreme Court seeking removal of a range of civil disabilities under which the LGBTI population labours. The Court is still awaiting (and may wait yet for a long time) for the submission of population and other relevant data that confirm claims of inequality.
This delay stems from Pant’s incompetence and inability to commission any credible project that would enable collection and analysis of the material that Court has predictably requested. As these data would need to include statistics pertaining to oppression suffered by lesbians and female-to-male TG people, Mitini Nepal would necessarily become involved, a prospect which Pant strenuously wants to avoid.
The rampant practice of intimidation and bullying that’s become a byword for BDS management and operations has eroded the BDS ‘brand name’ to a point where it would destroy the credibility of any research or investigative report published under its auspices.
This leadership of Sunil Babu Pant if not corrected will pulverised not only the organisation itself but also the burning activism of LGBTI people in this country. The leadership and contribution of Sunil Babu Pant towards LGBTI people is very trivial if analysed properly. He is merely a high class sex worker within international industrialised assholes who has skilfully directed his ass towards powerful people nationally and internationally to get the wealth and fame accordingly. The poor TG community who are supporting his leadership are merely scapegoats of his psychopathic nature to retain the position unconditionally forever.
10. Appeal
I earnestly request those in the media and civil societies to press the Nepalese Government to instigate a public inquiry into alleged abuses occurring in the BDS and lobby for urgently needed organizational reform. For the donors, I request them to cross-check all the testimonies presented in the documentaries made by TV channels, news articles and radios. I am agreeable to discuss these issues and where possible verify allegations mentioned.
For further information, see:
• Khoj Khabar (search news, 14 August 2012): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn4otTu_VDs
• Khoj Khabar (search news, 15 August 2012): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2FQXDoQQxI
• Khoj Khabar (search news, 27 September 2012): Why so? Where is our right? -- Nepal's LGBT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmziIhz7j1I.
• Khoj Khabar (search news, 24 December 2012): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC-iswA0Jh8
• Khoj Khabar (search news, 25 December 2012): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcIN83_egFc
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Kedar Maharjan attained a bachelors degree in Medical Sciences from the University of Technology, Sydney, and a masters in International Public Health from Sydney University.
In 2011, Kedar was awarded a European Union scholarship to complete Sydney’s innovative masters’ degree in Human Rights and Democratisation in Asia and the Pacific. He’s Nepalese born and belongs to the country’s minority Newar community. Kedar has worked professionally for NGOs in Dhaka, Bangladesh and Katherine, Australia.

Dear Sir and Madam

It is good that you are initiated some activities to know the realities of LGBTIQ issues in Nepal but I am sad to say that this is not relevant since 90% of LGBTIQ are computer illiterate and rest do not give a damn about LGBTIQ activism.

My recent research on LGBTIQ findings shows that Blue diamond society who is working towards HIV/AIDS has failed in number of ways;
1. it has hardly done anything to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS,
2. The staff members are too busy falsifying services given about HIV/AIDS awareness, treatment and prevention and research.
3. BDS has successful trafficked transgender people from around the Nepal into sex trade which has caused heavy budget to bile out illegal sex workers from the police,
4. BDS supports this because Sunil Babu Pant ( president of blue diamond society) as misued these community for his benefit including becoming a CA member 2008-2012.
5. BDS has mis-infromed international activists about HIV/AIDS status of LGBTIQ people to secure further funding.
6. 99% of LGBTIQ people neither trust BDS nor visits BDS to take any service because of its corrupt leadership.
7. Even 90% staff of BDS hates its key leader of BDS and leadership but unable to raise the voice simply because of fear of losing job and livelihood ( they are neither qualified to do anything apart from working here for tokenism)
8. BDS has focused its activities on unnecessary projects which raises more hype (internationally) than impact.
9. BDS recruits its key staff not based on merit but on his (sunil Babu Pant) link so that he can manipulated further international activist and donors,
10 Any news or research came from the orgnisation is 99% fulsified which is not related to the field stories and issues.
11. I can challenge and prove that HIV/AIDS data represented by BDS is untrue.

11. The government not willing to renew the organization not because the government of Nepal is homophobic because our government have enough evidence of corruption, misused, Human rights abuse and falsification occurring at the current leadership.
12. Sunil Babu Pant is powerful because he has formed sexual relationship with powerful people like Peter O' Neal and other UN staff who can not be challenged by average people.

This is all for this I will update further later when I have time.

Kind regards

K Maharjan

Corrupt director Mr. Sunil Babu Pant worsening the condition of victimized Nepali sexual and gender minorities (LGBTI)
Dear Friends,
I am writing this email, quite disturbed, with grave concern and calling your urgent attention, action and help.
As you are aware, holding the post of sometimes as a chairperson and sometimes as an Executive Director of the organization named Blue Diamond Society [ As a Nepali Community based organization, Blue Diamond Society is an NGO registered in 2001( Registration number154/1339) addressing the issue of sexual/gender minorities(LGBTI) including human rights, stigma and discrimination, law and policy changes, HIV/AIDS prevention, care, support and treatment for males who have sex with males(MSM) and transgender people in Nepal.] from the day of its inception to date, Mr. Sunil Babu Pant has abused and embezzled the funds in large part that have come in to the organization as foreign aid from the outside world in the name of sexual and gender minorities(LGBTI) by doing and getting done inappropriate activities inside the organization. Not only this much, he had also carried out gross misconduct of his post as well as involved in acts of bribery and corruption during his tenure as a nominated member of constituent Assembly of Nepal. Some acts of corruption done by him are as follows:-
He has appointed his own brother-in-law(Mr. Bishnu Raj Pant) in the post of board's treasurer and senior accountant of organization as well. Doing like this, he has been illegally pocketing huge lumps of money from the funds he received from the foreign aid agancies in the name of Nepali sexual/gender minorities(LGBTI). With that money, he has owned a big magnificently sophisticated five-storeyed bunglow, lands, motors etc like properties in his own personal name at Kathmandu.
With total amount Rs. 90 lakhs, which has been donated by government of Nepal, he built a house in his own personal name on the site of the organisation(BDS) where a building of organisation (BDS) was supposed to be built up.
He illegally received salary of Rs. 140000 per month from BDS in addition to the salary from the constituent Assembly when he was CA member. Its illegal to take double salary simultaneously as it goes against the principle that a person cannot work for two organizations at the same time.
Evading governmental tax, he is running illegally his pink Mountain Travel and Tour Pvt. Ltd.
Whatever written above is all true, Mr. Sunil Babu Pant is a racketeer, so I've registered complaints at the commission of investigation of Abuse of Authority(CIAA) and filed a case against him, district Administration office(DAO) started investigation about this case, in the direction of CIAA. And DAO had asked BDS to furnish three conditions for renewal. Chief District Officer Mr. Chudamani Sharma said, BDS had furnished insufficient information therefore its renewal was denied."
BDS had received Rs.12 crores financial support from Global Fund, A Geneva-based international organization supporting HIV/AIDS and from the Norwegian Embassy in 2012. However due to delay in renewal BDS is yet to received fund this year.Upon DAO's refusal the organizations licence, pointing this out, I have received some threating, mental trauma and physical torture from some staffs and members of BDS and also from some unidentified persons. At the reporters' club, on Saturday, 22 December 2012, when I challenge the idea of 'third gender' during my paper presentation. I had said that there is no gender other than male/female or intersex and the term 'third gender' was coined by BDS just to attract donors. Upon this remark, members of BDS started chanting slogans against me while a few of them snatched the mike and some other started hitting me and my supporters. First they spat on my face and hit me. And again on 2013-01-31, some unidentified men came at Bhatbhateni when I was walking on the road, they beat me up badly saying,"Why you were filing a case against Mr. Sunil Babu Pant, how dare you criticized him, " immediately I called police and they ran away leaving me alone. Police investigation still going on about this case. That day I was admitted at Himal Medical Hall Hospital, my nose was badly damaged and I took treatment there.
We call NHRC to take immediate action on this serious matter.
We call Nepal Press council and federation of Nepalese journalist to take and help Nepali LGBTI organization free from criminal elements.
We also like to call Nepal government and all my dear friends to investigate this case, provide security to LGBTI community in Nepal and end these kinds of crimes against LGBTI and baseless attack, harassment and discrimination against LGBTI from BDS organization, hence, give a fair justice to all the victimized Nepali sexual and gender minorities(LGBTI) community.
Thank you for your anticipated, cooperation, support and security.
Best Regards
Binod Lama(Zameen)

I also belongs to LGBTI community of Nepal.The things i can see written here i am not disagree,just because of the Blue Diamond Society now we can at least have a life with dignity and pride.So guys please stop writing all this things which create misunderstanding.And if something wrong is going on at the organisation then law should take it course,we dont have to mention the same thing all the time.

“The Regime of Dictatorship: Within the Human Rights Organisation- The Brief analysis of Blue Diamond Society and its megalomaniac chair person -Sunil Babu Pant, of Nepal”

Ever since the genesis of the Blue diamond Society (BDS) in the Horizon of Nepal, it has generated massive controversies around. Firstly, it is to do with LGBTI rights which have been largely ignored and unrepresented in a democratising country like Nepal. It is not only the rights of LGBTI minority people who have been historically uninformed or marginalised, it is also to do the outrageous approaches and campaigns which managed to gain momentum internationally.

There is no doubt that the success of BDS has gained lime lights amongst the international human rights movement and people. In the context of Nepal many people have gained the awareness of LGBTI minorities which was previously unheard of. Through BDS Nepalese human rights got its new dimension without a doubt but regarding quality of lives of LGBTI which has not improve a bit in last ten years of its activism. It might be due to the lack of knowledge of BDS and its staff or it might be due to the donor backed projects implementation which has distanced the reality from the need of local LGBTI people or it might be the management system of BDS which are often seen very undemocratic, feudal, closed (not transparent) and abusive. Lately, the falsification of the data and services of BDS are coming out in Nepalese media clearly.

BDS has successfully commoditised the Nepalese LGBTI people and lives in international market successfully with well-known writers, activists, journalists, lawyers and donors are backing the movement blindly without knowing the fact in the field due to the frequent glamorous coverage and stories (partly true but sometimes highly falsified) presented via national and international media to the international public which has been the key to its funding strategies.

It will not be wrong to say that BDS is an organisation working for transgender (TG) community alone. I hate to use the term third gender which has disempowering concept therefore I refrain to use this term in my article. Sunil Babu is a homosexual man who has sexual likings toward middle aged man who has successfully kept his male partners and sexual life private from national media at least but declared openly to the international media as a first open homosexual parliamentarian in Nepal. According to my observation during my research, I hardly met Gays and Bisexuals and other sexual minorities apart from transgender community who has acquired some kinds of service from BDS. BDS has successfully organised events of beauty context of transgender people of Nepal but vastly limited to its staff members. The invitation to the beauty context has not been once advertised in national media to include all the TG community of the country. The entire event is limited to BDS staff and their friends alone. Many TG members are currently working are paid $40 monthly which is hardly enough to pay their rent let alone for food and cloths. One occasion, I asked a TG staff members of BDS about her situation, she blatantly told me that we are under paid by BDS and to survive we need sell ourselves here everyday. There are rumours that BDS has different financial reports one for donors and one for staff members. The donor financial report contains high salaries paid to all staff members to show that BDS has been doing justice to their staff members.

Regarding HIV and STD prevention work, BDS has done very little to promote safe sex practice amongst LGBTIQ people of Nepal. The staff members who suppose to distribute and outreach in the field has been enticing men on the job having fun themselves everyday in their working hours. BDS knows about it very well but have they implemented any monitoring and evaluation strategies to over come this abuse yet. How many members and fund it has mobilised for this issue in the nation but the effect is almost zero. Have they promoted or conducted any study to see the impact obviously not! Regarding HIV/AIDS there has been only handful of the cases till date reported amongst LGBTIQ community even the cases were through their practice they have not been able to come out openly about their sexuality and take services through BDS because most of the LGBTI community of Nepal (apart from transgender community) too embarrassed to associate and linked with BDS because of its insensible activities and programs. Some BDS workers are accusing BDS has been falsifying the data regarding their care and number of HIV/AIDS patients it has been caring. One of the member said that BDS has successfully given two three hundred patients about their services but in document they have added to 5000 patients around Nepal. This allegation clearly shows that the symptoms of rampant corruption in BDS which is largely designed by its chair person-Sunil Babu Pant for his self interest. Sunil Babu and his close linked management personnel hardly release the information about the incoming funds and had chance to share their views amongst donors about the progress. The communication GAP between staff members and donors has been deliberately designed by Sunil Babu Pant for his megalomaniac personality which often seen as a behaviour of an organisational psychopath. There are sources which tell that many of the patients who are linked with HIV and STD clinics are not even LGBTI people and community. These members accessed the services because it is provided freely otherwise they have to pay for.

BDS has been implementing trainings on vocational courses to its staff members about beautician, driving tempo and other management courses but has they provided any for non BDS LGBTIQ members yet? The most of the BDS staff members who would not get any job elsewhere because of their lack of qualifications and skills are the once who is supporting Sunil Babu blindly. For those who follows him blindly given good posts, with high paid salaries and of course trainings after trainings which are then translated into Nepali LGBTIQ empowerment project which is overall propaganda alone or mi

BDS has announced the LGBTI games in Nepal for some time through its NTV program called “Pahichan” and banner in national stadium but it has failed to invite and include LGBTIQ sports people outside BDS at all. BDS has encouraged its staff members to train themselves to participate for the event but the most of the participants are not at all sports people in day to day life. This is one of the BDS’s strategies to gain popularity amongst international stakeholders but same time rejected and excluded its own beneficiaries from the event which can be seen a deliberate design. There are many national champions in LGBTIQ Nepal who are left behind just because they are not part of the BDS staff members as it is a private sport event. If so why should they call it South Asian LGBTIQ games? Why do they include all LGBTI people in the promotion? There other allegation around the event is that, the Mitini Nepal (a lesbian organisation) team wanted to organise the event but Sunil Babu blatantly rejected plan and their proposal by disheartening the staff members permanently. These are the few of many corruption and marginalisation inflicted by BDS to its own prime beneficiaries-Nepali LGBTIQ community.

In a decade long activism, nighter BDS has produced, supported or funded any impartial academic research (done by local LGBTI members) because they are frightened to let go all the malpractice and abuses inflicted against its staff and huge fund as well as misinformation which has mystified international audience successfully nor produce single credible information regarding sexuality and gender identity issues, transparent reports, programs/projects/outputs, discussion panel on current issues regarding LGBTIQ people of Nepal inclusively which can challenge the current system and behaviours of the nation regarding LGBTIQ identity and rights. I have known few staff from BDS for more than decades and according to their story the whole system is very undemocratic and they hardly know anything about the donors and funds. Sunil Babu has separated the staff from the donors so that he can manipulate the fund and information regarding salaries, services and data to donors and same time staff members. Many staff members are very unhappy about the management system but very frightened to speak up because that can cost their job especially with senior management staff who are paid handsomely and the close and blinded agent of Sunil Babu Pant, the director. Sunil Babu is a great multi tasker and perhaps busier than our prime minister Babu Ram Bhattarai who has no time to talk and correspond to LGBTIQ people with needs but have enormous time to travel abroad continuously perhaps for work or charity sex tour to gain funding or popularity amongst developed and powerful people of this world. It is not problem of him as well but it also reflects the credibility of its donors and staff members. It is blatantly a corruption, political invasion and interference to a sovereign nation and its people. The donors need to take responsibility towards this abuse and they are equally violator of human rights and the dignity of vulnerable people of this country.

The presentation of Sunil Babu itself looks innocent on NTV program called PAHICHAN (Identity)”. He regards himself as a role model to Nepali LGBTIQ people and related movement has not once given an interview about his own identity and struggles to the Nepalese audience openly. This does ring bells too many people who can think but for those who does not think perhaps a trivial matter. He has been inviting those attention seeker megalomaniac artists into the show. Neither has he opened or initiated the national level discussion with gender experts, academicians, activists, political leaders, community members, journalists and most importantly its prime beneficiaries about the priority issues to mainstream LGBTIQ into our society as normal human beings and have rights as everyone in our society nor BDS has any capability or willingness to do so in near future. He has challenged or influenced Nepalese legal system merely with the aid of international activists which has not been consolidated due to the negligence of BDS by not submitting the demographic data of LGBTIQ people of Nepal requested by the Supreme Court of Nepal till today.

Many lesbian members from Mitini Nepal as well as BDS, I can not disclose their names because this might cause their jobs which can push them for further vulnerability (if they need to live with their family members), are alleging BDS for neglecting female gay members and their rights. Last month a violated mother and self identified lesbian (Rajani Sahi) had go through enormous trauma due to the ignorance of family and community members to her life and forcefully institutionalised, medicated, violated her basic rights has been left alone by BDS like she is not a human of their interest to let her die alone. Currently she is kept in Maiti Nepal for further negotiation and consultation. One of the prominent members of BDS has sexually abused a female staff member. Instead of taking action against abuser they have successfully sacked the victim from the job. The victim filed the case against the culprits in the district court of Kathmandu and still continuing.

Suicide has been world wide phenomena amongst vulnerable LGBTIQ members from the globe. This trend is very current and rampant in Nepal as well but purposefully BDS has refrained from intervening. Although most of these deaths are seen as cirrhosis and alcohol abuse but neither BDS has done anything to investigate the cause and the cofactors relating alcohol abuse and mental health nor has deployed or funded any research and investigation to learn the unspoken and untold suffering of LGBTI people in this country. The author of this report was part of the human rights course through the university of Sydney and Kathmandu School of Law and has taken initiative to find out unspoken violence and abuse amongst self identified LGBTIQ people of Kathmandu valley. The meeting (with LGBTI and heterosexual staff members) have decided not to support this research without any further clarification. BDS has not yet been recruit credible counsellors who can understand the situation of LGBTIQ in the context of Nepal. Many of LGBTIQ members are in constant battle whether to live as culture expected or as their heart says. The BDS has any information regarding these issues because they neither care to study nor have the willing to change the situation or can not perform because it lacks credible and qualified staff due to the corrupt human resource policy and feudal management system where democratic and human rights values are seldom practiced amongst junior and less important staff members.

Regarding human resource management it is very undemocratic same time not transparent at all to the general public or beneficiaries. I remember applying for position of technical advisor in BDS. The very first misleading information was that they have written false email address where job application from general members can not be submitted when I complain about it they have given me another email address to submit my application. I was told to apply based on my merit because I left my CV previously to BDS information help desk for their reference. I called them numerous times to know about the progress neither they had one to comment about it not courteous to call me back when I left my number. Several weeks later I came to know about the appointment of a person to the position which was referred by a Kyle Knight (a friend or well wisher of Sunil Babu Pant), an American consultant or journalist which occasionally write papers about BDS to international Media which are often superficial but a very good tool to seek attention and commoditised LGBTIQ issues to international public in betterment of BDS.

There are allegations against the BDS Chair person Mr. Sunil Babu Pant about human rights abuse such as domestic worker abuse while he was ministry of parliament shown in resent media reports by Sagarmatha TV news which was broadcasted in Nepali so the most of the international partners and donors might not understand but they ought know the reality of this person. There are proofs of his abuse in a child rights organisation that was representing this domestic worker. Regarding performance of a coaxed head job in BDS office by the chair person which could be just allegation but victim can not come out to testify because he is married and has reputable job which can be jeopardy.


Recently few of the LGBTIQ staff members had been sacked by the Program Officer from a branch of BDS which (who is very close to Sunil Babu and senior staff members of BDS), designated to deal with gay male members of Kathmandu valley. There is no doubt about his boldness and courage but same time he has been promoted so well that it had blinding effect on him. Instead of acting professionally he had been abusive and threatening to victims to kill if they open their mouth in public.

While he was a member of parliament of Nepal, he appointed a person in BDS as a acting director but in reality he (she) had no power make and execute any decision regarding the activities of BDS. Sunil Babu kept his staff away from donors so that he can tame BDS and staff according to his needs at anytime. If anyone wants cross check about it please check the documents sent it to its donors and partners in his tenure. There are many issues arising from this tenure still pending for the investigation. As far as LGBTIQ being first ministry of Parliament in Nepal is completely rubbish. Perhaps he is open from the closet to the international media but I am sure there are many closeted members and ministers in Nepali politics long before he has even entered the politics of Nepal but these leaders choose to be closeted because of various situations. And they have every right to do so.

Please visit following links to see the recent media release which tried to open few of BDS and Sunil Babu Pant’s malpractices as a director, human and human rights activist of this country. If you do not understand the news, then please feel free to contact me or any translating agency to do so because it serious matter and everyone should know about it because violating or abusing rights of people is a crime but becoming a bystander of any abuse is regarded as a violator of human rights in current human rights politics of this world.

• Khoj Khabar (search news, 14 August 2012): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn4otTu_VDs

• Khoj Khabar (search news, 15 August 2012): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2FQXDoQQxI

• Khoj Khabar (search news, 15 August 2012): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmziIhz7j1I


It is my earnest appeal to all the human rights activists and partner organisations to refrain from the participating the LGBTIQ games in Kathmandu Nepal. I would also like to welcome all the activists, political agents, journalist, and sports person from abroad who has come here in Kathmandu to show their solidarity and support towards minority rights do give serious attention to see the reality not just the articles written by people of superficial knowledge and understanding of Nepali society and the role of BDS in the empowerment of sexual minorities of this country. I do understand that you have been misinform and misled by BDS and their propagandas regarding LGBTIQ issues in Nepal. I request you to make an inquiry regarding what ever I have written and do pass me questions regarding this article. I would be more than happy to verify all the aspect of the article without any hesitation.

The major problems that I see regarding BDS and its management are given bellow:
• Sunil Babu Pant, the director of BDS has recruited a financial officer as a close family member which is very efficient in falsifying financial reports.
• Perhaps it is do with capacity of the human resource which often recruited not from the merit but from the nepotism of BDS network.
• BDS has successfully shown to its donors and international agents as a human rights and public health institute with the well crafted international articles written by ignorant and superficial activists and journalists from the globe. Have these journalists even have ideas about situation LGBTIQ in Nepal?
• Feudal management of BDS has been the most important factor for its situation of BDS. Ok we know that he is the founder of this organisation that does not mean that he can rule out the organisational values, mission and vision for self without election and approval of board members.
• As far as writing proposal of the project concern, I have a doubt that he is the one. Perhaps he needs to pay proposal writers and donors with some favours (might be sexual favours).
• Sunil Babu has never internalised the values of BDS himself. The staff members have been living in penury for so long not having salaries for months and asking people for a feed for daily basis. Some staff members even married to an opposite sex just to support themselves to sustain food for daily basis if he is the real human rights activist he would have been communicating with his staff members about the reason behind difficulty of payment continuously.

Unless and until BDS workers do not keep their act together for protecting human rights and human dignity, we will continually advocating against its malpractices and misinformation. This does not mean that we are against BDS or its beneficiaries.

Krishna Gopal Maharjan: krishnamaharjan@yahoo.com
+977 9849 258 266

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