Kathmandu: Political maneuverings are on to bring politics to one’s side.

The six-party alliance that is opposing the King’s recent moves and wishes the King to correct what they call his constitutional blunders are all set to announce a sort of agitation cum movement shortly to press the King to yield.

The King remains undeterred but then has stepped up his meeting with various political leaders in order presumably to control the continuously deteriorating political situation of the country.

In the process the King has met a few leaders and has been ventilating through them that he was ready to sacrifice if peace prevailed in the Kingdom and also been hinting that the stances acquired by the Opposition—the six party alliance—were by no means contributing to the peace process initiated recently by the country.

The Opposition parties blame the King that his words and deeds differ.

Analysts appear surprised and question as to if the King could find time to meet personalities like Bijaya Kumar Gachhedar and Rabindra Nath Sharma separately and could ventilate his sincere feelings for the country and the system now in force, why can’t he see the parties in Opposition at a time and seek their suggestions in order to get the country out of the mess wherein the country is in?

Altogether four days are left when the Opposition parties led by Nepali Congress and the UML will announce their future programs to press the King to yield to their demands. Though the Opposition forces say that their would be movement will be a non-violent one and that it would in no way damage the ongoing talks with the rebels but analysts opine that Nepal’s movements or for that matter the agitation have ever remained a violent ones if one were to take into consideration the previous such demonstrations.

Surely, the movement once waged could take any form and dimension.

But what is the rationale of waging a movement at this critical juncture when the Maoists have come to attend the talks and in effect have already sat for the first round of talks with the government?

The explanation of the opposition parties that it would be a peaceful one and would not damage the ongoing talks is a big joke indeed. How the nation can remain in peace when there is a movement that possesses the potential of transforming itself into a violent one? The fact is that the nation has become so weak that even if a handful of students declare Nepal bundh on a particular day, it would be so inevitably.

The fact is also that the nation is tired of bundhs and closures in series. The fact is also that the national population observe the so-called bundhs and closures not because they adhere to the political ideologies of the group calling for bundhs, but for fear of violence and destruction. It has already been too much to the extent that a time will soon come when the national population will reject and neglect such bundhs for understandable reasons.

While the nation is slowly but very steadily heading towards a decisive confrontation, the civil society and the lay men remain confused thinking as to what would be the end result of such a confrontation that is in between the King, the Maoists and the parliamentary parties.

The international donor community including the countries of the developed West appears bewildered who have been forced to support Nepal’s ongoing politics even if it lacked a few elements that are demanded of a democratic system. This they presumably have been doing hoping that the government-Maoists talks will soon give a stable shape to Nepal’s derailed politics which would enable the country to go on in for elections at least at the local level so that the donors could resume their participation for the development of the country at the village and the district levels.

To sum up, it is apparently clear as to who or which forces are hindering the peace process? It is also clear as to which political actor(s) are impeding the national development. What is also clear is that the arrogance and obduracy currently being exhibited by various potential political actors will surely land this country into an abyss and the easy come back from that precipice would definitely be very hard if not impossible.

It is time that the opposition forces and the King come together and sort out their differences in the larger interest of the nation and its ever neglected and cheated people.

But who will mediate in between the two diametrically opposed forces? This is the million dollar question.

Analysts opine that the King and the opposition forces can converge on a point which allows the formation of an all party government which will continue the talks with the Maoists that has already begun. But will that arrangement be comfortable to the King? If this does happen will Koirala renounce his restoration of parliament agenda? Will that then satisfy Sher Bahadur Deuba who is demanding the restoration of his own “incompetent regime”.

Be that as it may, a sort of compromise has got to be found at the earliest possible or else the country will suffer immensely.

Thanks that the incumbent ambassador is taking pains to manage a sort of compromise in between all these political actors who count much in today’s Nepali politics. Unsubstantiated reports have it that the unfolding Nepal events have forced the Indian Ambassador to postpone his official vacation sine die.

If this is true then what could be predicted in advance is that it would be India and India alone which would lend her support to this country to come out of the present mess for understandable reasons.

Meanwhile, the Americans too have reportedly suggested the Nepali Congress not to be a part of the scheduled movement against the monarchy. If this is true then what could be analysed is that the US fears that the movement could well slip out of the hands of the congress to the communists. Not an entirely absurd presumption.