Kathmandu: The supposed guardian of an already divided house is in a pious move to bring about greater unity among all the major political parties of the nation in order to what he claims to safeguard the system and do away with the present ailments that have gripped the country of late.

In the process the guardian of a particular party has been constantly visiting the leaders of other political parties in order to garner support for his mysterious Broader Democratic Alliance or otherwise the BDA.

To recall, the BDA is the brainchild of Nepali Congress President Sri Girija Prasad Koirala. Neither President Koirala has been able to convince the raison de etre of such an alliance to his party-men nor he has felt the need to take the lay men into his confidence. But yet then why the UML stalwarts or for that matter the men belonging to the RPP paraphernalia plus the Sadbhavana activists throng to President Koirala?

Is it really a pious move launched by president Koirala? Were it not a ploy to destabilize the Deuba regime? Is Koirala move an entirely Nepali brain child or some instigation for extraneous forces? Will Koirala initiative boost the morale of the nation’s armed forces who were at the moment fighting with the insurgents? Or is it that Koirala really has sensed a threat to this order from some quarters but he does not wish to divulge?

These were some of the questions which the initiator of the BDA must answer prior to mustering support from the needed quarters.

However, analyzing all these questions in the existing Nepali context what comes to the fore firstly is that President Koirala has a plan indeed in his mind for the materialization of which he needs support from all major political actors of the nation. Whether the move is a pious one or not will have to be left to the incumbent Prime Minister. Because it is Deuba who should feel the brunt of the Koirala initiative. It is Deuba and Deuba alone who could be the best judge of the Koirala BDA plan. If its initiation is simply to destabilize his regime, it would be considered a move brought with ulterior motive. Sources close to Deuba have been ventilating their concern regarding the untimely initiative of president of Koirala which apparently means that for the incumbent regime the Koirala initiative was nothing more than a ploy to bring about a collapse of Deuba establishment. This again means that the move could be interpreted by Koirala camp as a pious one, however, the other rival camp concludes that it has an ulterior motive underneath.

Regarding the UML’s tentative support to Koirala moves, what could be said that UML as a communist entity is playing double indeed. The UML men understand better what would mean if they support Koirala initiatives at this crucial juncture. The UML knows fully well that the NC is a badly divided house and hence any further support extended to Koirala at time of the state of emergency will widen further the already divided house. If the congress house is further divided on this count would mean a plus point to the communists. The UML men will wish to break the congress house further for they have already tasted the pains of division. In doing so the UML apparently is guided by the simple logic that a divided congress can’t compete the UML at the elections. This is a fact. The UML is giving a fillip to the congress tussle only to benefit from their ongoing rift. Consider what would happen if the congress remains badly battered and the UML leaders manage the happy reunion with the ML?

Definitely, the congress will feel dwarfed after the UML-ML unification. Question could be asked as to why the UML that created havoc during the 19 the session of the parliament and demanded the outright resignation of Prime Minister Koirala over the Lauda scam suddenly becomes supportive of the Koirala plans? After all what factors could motivate or for that matter compel the UML now to support Koirala? The answer should be simple. Either it is the design of the UML to benefit from the congress rift or some extraneous forces might have told the UML to do so.

However, let’s forget that it could be a part of greater design of some foreign powers. UML by this time has already attained maturity and knows fully well on how to play politics in the given scheme of things.

But yet then the UML men have point blank told Koirala that they will support his BDA plan if the new set under Koirala initiates actions against all the beneficiaries of various scams that have had rocked the nation at different intervals of Nepal’s turbulent 12 democratic years.

Sources say that in saying so the UML apparently wished to hint Koirala that since he enjoyed much of the democratic years as nation’s prime minister and hence he should prepare himself as well for possible penal actions for his alleged involvement in scams like Dhamija and the Lauda affair.

Finally, it is time that president Koirala must speak his mind as to whether he has really sensed a threat to this order or it were simply his imagination? He must now tell the lay men that the threat to the system emanated from this or that quarters?

Unless he speaks how could people believe in his imaginative works. Failing to do so would mean that his BDA is nothing but a ploy to unseat his political rival Deuba. Failing to do so moreover will irritate the common men as well who already consider Koirala as a power-lust leader who more often than not comes out with a nation-saving formulae as and when he is out of power.

Is it not sufficient to prove that Koirala’s intentions are not that pious as he would prefer to give all and sundry to understand?