Kathmandu: The Lauda investigating authority, the CIAA, is yet to take its final decisions. Naturally all eyes were towards the CIAA now. More or less it appears that the national politics will remain stagnant for a few days more.

However, the CIAA sources though were tight lipped at the moment, yet high placed sources in government maintain that Premier Koirala’s blunt letter addressed to the CIAA in response to their earlier letter has remained far from satisfactory and hence the authority is “all set to send yet another strong worded letter to the Prime Minister seeking more clarifications on the involvement of his cabinet on the procurement of the Lauda air”. The CIAA will, say sources, finalize its impending procedures to be taken in regard of the Lauda scandal by the end of this week. This might include summoning of the Prime Minister for face to face interrogation or at least a strong worded letter from the authority awaits the office of the Prime Minister.

Understandably, the entire Nepali administration is in a fix and is anxiously waiting for the next moves of the CIAA as its final decision would facilitate the smooth functioning of the institutions under Koirala government.

This notwithstanding, the UML and its allies are on the move to bag a total and grand success in their already declared and much publicized three days Nepal bundh. Corner meetings, cycle and motor cycle rallies are being organized to create awareness among the less interested population about the Prime Minister’s alleged involvement in the Lauda scam and the raison d’être of the bundh. Fortunately or unfortunately, the rest of the Communist factions, save the ML led by Bamdev Gautam, too have joined the UML and its allies and have tentatively formed a joint alliance for the ouster of Prime Minister Koirala.

“We expect that the impending bundh will force Koirala to resign”, said a UML activist to this scribe.”We hope that this bundh will affect the normal international flights for three consecutive days”, added yet another Communist veteran. Imaginably, the bundh that begins this Sunday would be more chaotic anddangerous as well compared to previous bundhs witnessed by this ever-beleaguered country.

This notwithstanding, Koirala sources in Baluatar say that Koirala will not resign under threat but would rather prefer to throw the nation to yet another polls come the budget session. Reacting to such comments from the Koirala quarters, the sponsors of the bundh claim that Koirala’s days were numbered. They expect that the budget session would be more chaotic than the previous session which ended miserably.

Be that as it may, whether the three-day bundh fulfils the desire of the UML and its allies or not remains yet uncertain. However, what is for sure is that this bundh would be a chaotic and dangerous one, which amply possesses the potential for a mild intervention from a very powerful quarter.

Telegraph adds: UML newspapers claim that the impending bundh sponsored by their party enjoys support from the Korean and Japan embassy as well. Sounds interesting.