FROM HOLERI TO KATHMANDU VIA NEW DELHI

TELEGRAPH COMMENTS TGW Analyst

Politics is the art of the possible, say political thinkers. They also claim that politics more often than not forces one to “compromise” even with what they call “strange bed partners”.

Nepali politics could be no exception to this universal practice and thus what “strange behaviors” some politicnal parties have begun exhibiting is simply Himalayan both in nature and content.

The Nepali population thus has been subjected to calculate the probability and the possibility of the political equations that could take a shape though the shape yet remains rather vague and some what blurred.

The crux of the matter is that Nepali political parties can talk any thing under the sun in order to befool the entire population. By extension this should also mean that Nepali leaders talk and behave different to different paraphernalia suiting to their political “lines” adopted at a particular interval of time thus adding more confusion to the already confused people.

Unfortunate are the Nepalese people who have to endure to such “double-talk” leaders. They are not what they pose to be and what they talk in public not necessarily should be in tune with their parties policy.

But the fact is that “we the people” can’t even “import” Yechuri and Shyam Saran to run our State affairs.

Hardly had a week lapsed of the “secret” meeting of Prime Minister Koirala and Surya Bahadur Thapa, the Maoists smelt a rat in such a meet of the two political stalwart.

Pat came the reply from the Maoist quarters. However, the reply came definitely in such a manner that not only shook the earth down the feet of the Nepali academia but also created panic among the so-called “liberal democrats” here.

Prachanda in no uncertain terms said Tuesday that “the royalists who surround the Monarch were too strong nationalists and thus his party can’t ignore their contribution as and when the country’s sovereignty is at stake”.

Nothing sort of an expression to panic! However, there is much to panic if one deeply tries to search the inner meaning contained in Prachanda’s “bombshell” hurled in an oblique manner at the camp of the liberals.

This scribe is reminded of some events which perhaps are related to what has been just said by Prachanda.

I just would like to forward the points and suggest my august readers to put the pieces together and weave it.

Koirala was the Prime Minister then and the ruling monarch was late King Birendra.
The Royal Nepal Army then informed Koirala that most of the Polit-Bureau members of the Maoists were having a close session deep inside the Jungles of Holeri.
Koirala went to see King Birendra begging King’s instructions to the Army to encircle the entire jungle and crush the Maoists top hats at a go.
The King denied by saying, “Look PM, the Maoists too were the sons of this soil and thus it would not be appropriate to kill them”.
Annoyed by King’s denial for the use of “force”, Koirala preferred to resign.
Around the same time, the then sitting home minister, Ram Chandra Poudel, bluntly once told the media men that the Maoists were the “brain child” of the Nirmal Nivas-the private residence of King Gyanendra then.
When King Birendra was killed, Dr. Babu Ram Bhattarai is on record to have said through an article printed then in Kantipur Daily that his party has had some “working relations” with the late King.
Now Prachanda says that there were many nationalists in the Royalist camp and thus their contribution must not be ignored for the preservation of national sovereignty and territorial integrity.
In saying so, Prachanda indirectly favors King Gyanendra perhaps.
The rest is up to you to draw conclusions. I leave it to you dear august readers.

Undenyingly, the Maoists then shifted their camps from Holeri to New Delhi albeit using the dense ROLPA jungles. And what happened in New Delhi and how the establishment there treated our august leaders is not a secret. What is also not a secret is that how the New Delhi mandarins managed the “grand” entrance” of the Maoists to Kathmandu April last year. Hmmm……

2007-12-06 16:37:15