resignation of madhav nepal will break remaining bones of maoist, probably. either by fulfilling their part of promise or by not meeting their part.

actually, timing is perfect. since, its the fiscal year, if govt. can not be formed in time, maoist mainly should be blamed.�

if maoist do not comply with their part of the contract, their agents- in uml, eu, un, norway, so called civil society members, media should be made to face to music.

"hurray, brazil is knocked out, brazil is one of the ugliest team who do not play fairly just like maoist, and if other side response, like during the match between ivory cost, things get ugly. with holland too."

the best pm candidate from NC, � i think, is the person who replaced girija in CA. he seems to be someone who is very intelligent with open mind- from peaceful dialogue to using force.�

*sherbahadur is a proven failure and all the corrupt, crooks have joined his gang.

*prachande a proven failure as well as a looser who runs away from problem.

*jhala nath, who do not have balls and likely will be used by maoist and bame.

*amazing is, bhatterai baje, who is the weakest in maoist among three. he wont be able to face maoist after getting the job.

i think, the next govt. will be the biggest failure in the history of nepal.�

Madhav Nepal after losing parliamentary election was hopelessly lost but Prachand gave him a facelift. NC, UML and others gave him PM post why because he was blessed by the Maoists and he was the only candidate who could forge a consensus among various groups. They were right. He was not forced by anyone to resign, he had not faced any revolts, on the contrary he was asked by all major parties except the Maoists not to resign. Eventually he resigned; it was a very good decision and a very mature one.

Despite not able to do much in constitution writing, economic development and giving a clear cut direction to the political paradigm shift, he has achieved a major goal set forth by the ruling parties, to expose, weaken and force the maoists to take softer lines on all the major issues.

Now the maoists have to talk to evrey political party in Nepal for a favor. They have to go door to door. Even if they will be able to form a majority government, they will feel the sword hanging above them all the times: losing majority. They can't be as arrogant as the first time.

They have dire needs to be in the government and they will try their best to get it. This is the time for NC and UML to extract major consessions from them on all the major issues. They should support the Maoists to form a government, if they meet the minimum condition put forth by them and make it very clear that if the maoists don't fulfill it within a time frame, the support would be withdrawn.

This is one opportunity to transform the Maoists into a civilian democratic party and help the maosists get rid of their hardline posters and policies.

"In the past year, Madhav Nepal's biggest contribution was to keep the totalitarian ambitions of the Maoists at bay. It is only now becoming clear how close we came on the night of 4 May 2009 to a complete Maoist takeover."

So it's taken a year for Messeur to fully appreciate the "totalitarian ambitions" of the Maoists, eh? Could one old man humbly remind that the Nepal Army (not to mention the King) had been warning the whole country about this since years before? When King and Army fought tooth and nail "to keep the totalitarian ambitions of the Maoists at bay", it was called "tyrannical", "feudal", "suppression" etc. etc. King and 'jarsaps' were "despots" and Maoists were the heroes. Now Makune does it, and it's the most admirable thing any Nepali leader has ever done, huh?

Wah-wah! Bahuns in media singing praises of Bahuns in politics. That's all "democracy" in Nepal is about. So that Bahuns can chatter, prattle, sermonize, eulogize and pontificate while everything else falls apart! That's what Nepalese "democracy" is all for. (Might as well call it "Bahun-cracy" as far as I'm concerned.) 

And finally to say what NT never will: at the end of the day, it was the Nepal Army, the hated Nepal Army, and specifically Gen. Katwal, that prevented a Maoist takeover of our country! If not for the (R)NA, the Maoists would have attained their ambitions riding on the backs of the "useful idiots" in Nepal's politics, intelligentsia and media!

Budabaaje, well said. I, however, do not believe it has anything to do with being a Brahmin. It has more to do with being part of a peer group of hollow men and women. To this group, all action must confirm to some of their own meaningless stereotype. The king did indeed do the right thing, that he had to go is irrelevant. As long some of us understand what he did, the rest does not matter. Whether he comes back or not, others show any respected or not…….. all of that is irrelevant in my view.

None of us, including the king, are going to live forever; we will leave posterity to decide the implications of all of our actions.

Meanwhile, do not expect these people to be sensible. Notice how another article suddenly brings up the "coy" (pretending, in a teasing or provocative way, to be reserved or modest) appearance of the king, and not the fact that people may just have started wondering……"so what was the point of all this fuss again".

Yes, Slarti. These people do not have the guts or the moral fiber to ever admit that, after all, THE KING WAS RIGHT! Yes, he made some mistakes and angered the people. But nothing to deserve the abolishment of monarchy. Posterity will surely see these lying, senseless, incompetent, opportunists for what they truly are!

The monarchy acted in the best interests of the country. It was prepared to take risks in the larger interests of the nation. That's far far more than can be said for the Bahun politicians and their Bahun yes-men in media and civil society, who act only in their narrow, self-serving interests. The monarchy had Big Shoulders to bear the burden of governing a country like Nepal and Big Balls to stand up to a bully like India. The current crop of political and intellectual leaders--who courted grandiose visions of replacing the monarchy--only have Big Mouths and multiple-times Forked Tongues!

The truth will come back to haunt these Cheats. The monarchy should and will be restored in our country! Let that be the rallying cry of all honest men and women!