I wonder when persons like you will be Prime Minister of Nepal...!!!!???

Good!!!! Keep it up!!!!

Thus speaketh GT.

There was a time when 'ganatantra' was the 'mantra'-GT Dai was the mass hero in the streets of Catmandu. There was a tinge of high-hopes in the man he ought to be when he made to the congregation of nepali politicking brass. He has been an utter dissapointment since. Now, I firmly believe that GT was a lucky &*#!$% who happend to be in the right place in the right time(during the aandolan). Politicking must be contagious; now, his politik-psyche is  no different than of any other 'Whatever Kangres' (budho)neta. Looking at the developments in his personal life and the news of his so called 'romantic' side that was all over in facebook and cheap tabloids- I was in a shock to know GT dai that I never knew then.

First and foremost, my hope was- that he would put up a fight within the 'whatever kangres' party and revolutionise the kangresi politicking/leadreship, but it seems now, he knowingly threw himself in the merri-go-round, and waves his hands like his in-laws.

GT Dai- nobody expected you to write the constitution, or bring the maoists to mainstream. I am dumbfounded in myself that I couldnt recognise the the immunity of ur integrity-that it was/is so weak. To cut it short, your purpose was to help towards building a 'strong' Congress party brother!!! YOU are too novice and inexperienced to build a new Nepal(proven now). But you can blow trumpets IN the party within, u can be the change agent to transform 'whatever kangres' party to THE CONGRESS PARTY of nepal- but seems like all of the bums ar ur in-laws and you are busy receiving tikas and dakshinas and trying to 'shit-higher-than-ur-arse' calling to save the CA and asking the maoist to transform! How amusing!

'Whatever Kangres' stinks better than Bagmati GT Dai!!! Work yourself to clean it up - Kathmandu already looks better with a clean bagmati!!!! DO NOT TREAD THE WATERS THAT YOU DO NOT KNOW OF. THINK HARD GT , THINK HARD- OR YOU'LL BE LOST IN TIME!!! And I wont spare a dime when you are lost.

There you go again Arthur.

"His mindset is the same as theirs - state power must not be "captured" through democratic elections. It must be "shared" among the politicians of the status quo."

Actually, what he's saying is that state power must not be captured by veiled and/or explicit threats which is what the Maoists use every day. 

Disappointed brings up a good point though; GT needs to address the ethnic issue.  How do we form a republic?  Then again this is something that PKD & BRB, for all their posturing, shouting, and fist salaams, have been unable to resolve either.

So this is the guy that NC is banking on? Someone who makes such as absurd irresponsible remarks? If mainstreaming the Maoists was that easy, what was he doing so far? Wake up gagan, wake up!

Gagan Thapa could be the right man among other NC leaders acceptable to the mass today if he takes ethnic issue seriously. Maoists were catapulted to a largest party because it claimed to be championing the cause of ethnic and the poor class. On Friday so called peace assembly at Basantapur during the week long strike by Maoist amply indicated the beginning of friction between the elitists and the poor in Nepal.  

It is now time for other leaders to rethink about these issues to retain their fragmented credibility.

Gagan himself probably wasn't expecting that everyone reading his article would agree with him. His argument that there wouldn't be  level filed if parties without arm compete with a party with arms and armies. And, for sure, so long the Maoists compromise in their stand of pushing nepal towards the Mao's type 'people's republic' there will be no constituion in Nepal through the current constitutient assembly.

The problem with Gagan is that he only seems to express his views through media. He hasn't so  created  a mechanism that ultimately will take his ideas to all corner of Nepal. It may be having mechanism within NC or an organisaton outside.

Until he comes up with some sort of organisational apparatus to support his ideas..his voice will dissapear with the wind.

What is wrong with dissolving this CA and electing new one with say hundred odd members to draft the constition. It is a joke to extend the current CA after it failed so miserably within its contract time.

Current CA's contract with Nepali people is over. The contract can only and legitimately renewed by fresh mandate or election.

Through the 3 years of CA's term, the CA members were busy touring europe for 'models of state restructuring';what they didnt realise that they were actually helping divide this country into ethnic lines. They were  busy punching CDOs, humiliating the army and haggling over petty issues. And now you want the CA's term to be extended?? what for? so that an assembly comprising of goons, dacoits, murderers and gays can enjoy the benefits of salary, perks plus other privileges while sitting on their asses and making provocative speeches which only serve to divide the country furthermore!!

From the very beginning, I never understood all the fuss surrounding Gagan Thapa. Why does he get so much attention? It is sad to see the standards we have set for our "new" leaders. Is it his youth? Or his relatively good looks? Or the fact that he is married to the daughter of a corrupt minister? Or that he chants the stale, discredited mantra of NC-UML in an idealistic voice (as opposed to the stutterings of a Deuba)? I simply don't understand why he is seen as the hero of our generation. Nobody who wants real change in our dreadfully unequal society can fall for the drivel of this overrated, media-hyped, "democratic" figure. He represents the Same Old Nepal. I think most of us have realized it by now.

well... i feel it would be a futile attempt to analyse the article already critically analyzed by the critical mass. However, i would like to summarize my humble opinion by quoting a portion of a statement by Pastor Martin Neimoller more than half a century ago....

"First they came for the communist, and i didnot speak out because i was not a communist; Then they came for the socialists, and i didnot speak out because i was not a socialist; Then they came for the trade unionists, and i didnot speak out because i was not a trade unionist;..................;Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me"..........

Arthur,

I have yet to agree with you on anything, but you deserve praise for having taken the time to address every single response thrown your way- and your responses are more often than not professional and cordial.  Do you do this for a living?

Keep on posting-

I do not mean to harping on about Nepalese political parties, as they are. But I must frankly evoke them that in today's stance of Nepal, no political party is really trustworthy with the exception of the NC, as far as I am concerned, to shun the Maoists from realizing their lethal design, and so much so this party never had the record of killing toll tagged on its front desk by comparison with the Maoist movement, and it, no matter what is said and called for, always stood for democratic and multiparty regime in Nepal.

And it boils down to the fact that while GPK was alive he could have been a great achiever of democracy in Nepal. But his vain aspirations to become the first president of Nepal shattered the immediate rehashing and revival of this democratic party, and throughout GPK was busy with avenging himself on his political arch-rival Prachanda, the awesome. By inadvertence, he worsened the opportunity of the Congress party, leaving behind no up-and-coming young politicians who would be available to entirely consecrate their lives for the sake of the party.

It is all a coordination thing, as such I must confess that I know practically nothing about you. So far I heard of you especially from those who want by all means to demean the NC because majority of them do not want democracy should be shored up in Nepal.

Almost everyday we read about the infighting in the NC to be the next designated leader of the party. To my great astonishment not a single charismatic and above the average leader emerged from the lot. After all politicians are a sort of the actors trapped in the same part, and some occasionally feel the need to tearing apart the script. Ain't they the salesmen engaged in the hard-sell approach?

Apart from those who are in league with die-hard Maoists I do not blame you all for your lethargic and non-bracing engagement in politics because so far apart from being a politician there is no other lucrative and a plum job around the corner.

Still, I am appalled to notice out of 601 CA members, apart from 240 elected from each constituency, the rest, that means, (601 -240) = 361 were simply boondoggled to cash the extra money provided by the stakeholders and donors meant for filling the treasury of different political parties. It is therefore evident that the citizens feel deceived by the CA members, hence the affiliated political parties, incapable of doing the job for which they were elected and assigned as well.

Mr. Gagan Thapa, your outing to save the CA allowances is considered by many inappropriate and not politically correct. Because you might have noticed by reading different op-eds of some Nepalese stranded all over the globe that you all CA members were not up to the mandate that people had accorded upon you.

Truly speaking, we really are in search of a charismatic, bracing and moderate man or woman in a million with developed commonsense, political and business acumen, who could lead Nepal toward a peaceful and prosperous better good. It ain't necessary for him to be affiliated to a political party.

We do not need somebody possessing propagandist logorrhea quality who is unable to weasel out from the political intricacies of his own making.

For once, Nepalese are ready to engage themselves on the path to hassle-free life so as to progress with certitude toward the path to global well-being of the nation with be-all and end-all sovereignty.

But for the time being Nepal is a country of laggards. They haven't found solution to ward off a political regime, not to name the Maoism of the past 20th century. Behind this, there is the acute problem of party politics like the NC which could never explain to its adherents very clearly that the Maoism is an outdated ideology which could outlive in China through the deliberate assassination of not less than 72 million innocent populace, victims of its atrocities, and equally couldn't really recommend a book like 'The Gulag of Archipelago' by the Nobel Prize winner Alexandr Solzhenitsyn who made a complete rundown of the victims-inmates of the defunct Soviet Gulag whose toll is estimated at 45 million, not to mention the regime of sanguinary Pol Pot, which decimated almost half of the Cambodian populace. (For exact cyphers please google and find out Wiki data.)

Today many journos are the direct victims of the goons hired by the zombies of Maoist movement to commit larceny, rip-off and blackmail because they never took pain to print and explain these past atrocities committed by communists in general all over the world and by Maoists in particular in China before 1978.

Which is why, we have on this thread a self-proclaimed alien who craps out to be the Maoists' scribe, and inclusive in their payroll, after his fit of delirium. Plus he hides himself behind the moniker of Arthur. This guy abuses of Nepalese' innate hospitality and some sort of a weird deference to the whites that this dork but wily fox takes advantage of by poking his nose in Nepalese affairs.

I have been living in the EU for more than a quarter of century where I adapted myself by learning their languages, their mores and culture. As a Nepalese I live with them I got married to one of them, but I never interfered in their internal affairs so far. How come this bugger is allowed to not only interfere in our politics but he becomes the sermonizer?

For me, it is inadmissible that a foreigner becomes the mercenary to impose on Nepalese the yoke of Maoism. I am of the opinion to warn him to stay out of our debates. Because already we have added his name to the list of those Maoist cadres who were in the past involved in the massacre of innocent Nepalese. His name has been added recently to the ad hoc list of Facebook duly created by some authentic Nepalese, those who will be judged by the court of The Hague when things will for sure come to normalcy. Till now no tyrant could escape from the vigilance of human laws, and his case will not be the exception.

Also, I am doubtful of his being a white or brown or anything. Because his case reminds me of 'The Guardian' which had of late the free web debates section wherein there was a guy with extremist viewpoints of the US G.O.P. or Tea Party, who was supposed to be dwelling at Seattle, the USA. We used to precipitate to send our op-eds with plenty of resentment and concern for ethics. And oneday we heard from a reliable source that the guy was simply one of the sons of the website diffuser.

I am dubious about his ID, whether 'Arthur' is simply one of the Dixit brothers who is testing the nerves of netizens by means of fallacious and rude remarks. Everything is possible in today's world of perversion.

All in all, Mr. Gagan Thapa committed a blunder by writing this article because he must be in the know by now as to how much the browsers on this thread are furious for this recurring failure of the politicos to respect the new agenda of political calendar. Anyway, there will be the CA extension for at least 6 months after May 28, 2010, at first sight.

The thorny problem of this sort would have been avoided had you benefited from the advices of a spin doctor as it is used abundantly in the West. Such a spin doctor would have helped you as to how to use the teleprompter while emceeing a political gathering, showing your forte sides to galvanize the crowd. This will come to Nepal slowly as the rest of things.

A fresh start for Nepal's political system where all sorts of shysters shall be promptly warded off and neutralized, where no warped minded swindlers shall be admitted in politics or elsewhere. But a new intake of CA members would be carried out without getting tainted and enmeshed in the political world of spin, and smear campaign; if not they would be heading straight into the manure pit of bitter experiences of life.

Amusement in plenty!

What do you give an elephant with a diarrhea? ---A lot of Room! they say....and nepalitimes gives it to Sargam (who has lived a quarter of century in the EU) hahahahahaha

And Hange & Arthur going 'hoochie coochie' men, my goodness...whats been blowin in the air?

Are you guys out to outsmart LALCK? and make whoopee in the 'echo chambers'? hahahahhaha

Of all the comments, #22 is the most honest and accurate. Ppl like Gagan are just opportunists. Here's the truth:.

REPUBLICANS ARE OPPORTUNISTS WHO USED THE MAOISTS TO CREATE A REPUBLIC.

That's it. That's the last 5-year history of Nepal in one sentence.

1. The Maoists never promised to "transform" into a "civilian" party.

2. This was a LIE spread around by Republicans to entice the Nepali ppl to believe in their mirage of a "peaceful solution".

3. Their (republicans') main aim was simply to use the Maoists to get rid of the monarchy – because they could NEVER have done it themselves.

4. Now that this aim has been achieved they're playing the blame-it-on-the-Maoists game.

5. But the biggest Liars, Cheats and Opportunists in our country are Republicans like Gagan Thapa themselves!

As npal puts it in #22:

"...opportunism is not a long term game-plan in politics. take your share of the blame."

- Have the guts to do that, Gagan bau?!

Gagan Thapa does not have any job. He simply wants to make easy monthly salary and nice bonuses from being a CA member.

What is the purpose of the CA if it is dead-lock for such a long time by illogically(undemocratically) pushing aside the largest party (bigger than NC and UML) in the country. Gagan Thapa and his NC will be decimated if the CA is not extended so he is so desperate  to extend it.

How long NC and UML can run the govement in the buttress of nepali Juntas (the "temporary" "Nepal" Army)??