Kathmandu: NC president Girija Prasad Koirala is engaged in a job that has to do with the monarchy.

He is currently touring district head quarters in order to convince his party cadres that it is not the political parties but the monarch who is creating troubles in the country.

How his cadres have taken his vitriolic remarks against the King is any body’s guess. However, he is determined to proceed alone criticizing the monarchy come what may.

In doing so, Koirala is guided by two factors: firstly, deriding at the monarch and that too in series will enhance his credibility among the masses who would provide him plus points for being the one and the only Nepali politician who could do so without fearing Royal wrath. Secondly, he could be doing so in order to send messages across the nation that his movement against was kicking and alive and that he will not compromise with the King even if his partners in the movement against regression abandoned him much the same way the UML did some time back.

How Koirala and his inner coterie think of his tours to the districts is not known. However, what is for sure is that not so many people in the valley or even in the districts know that a sort of movement is currently on under the aegis of president Koirala against regression.

The fact is that the movement against regression is in a fractured and punctured state and that had it not been the energetic leadership of Koirala, the said movement would have already dies a premature death.

Thanks Koirala that he is reminding the lay men that the movement was alive even if it were counting its last breath.

But then there is a visible change in Koirala’s tone regarding the Maoists issue. Recall the days when Koirala returned from Delhi, he used to proudly announce that he and he alone was enough to settle the Maoists issue for good and that he enjoyed international support in his mission.

However, Koirala suddenly knew his political standing that since he were not the nation’s prime minister and hence all that he could do is to assist any process that were aimed at bringing the insurgents to the table and nothing more than that.

These days Koirala says “let’s all do it but not that I will do it alone”.

As a senior politician of the country, Koirala must be heard, say analysts. Koirala’s experience have got to be used for the benefit of the nation, add matured analysts.

Yet another section of the political scientists say that when Koirala so confidently claims that he could sort out the Maoist issue all alone then there must be some thing that makes him to speak so confidently and thus his confidence have got to be tested. Analysts hasten to add that Koirala could be talking sense for he is speaking these confidence loaded languages upon his return from New Delhi.

Undenyingly, India has a role to play in Nepal’s Maoists issue. Perhaps the Indian leaders could have hinted Koirala in Delhi that they were interested in playing their role. That the Indian authorities could have made it clear to Koirala that they wished a role in the Maoists issue becomes clear from Koirala’s own assertions that he has been assured of the needed Indian support in that regard. But what Koirala has yet not revealed as to what type of role the Indian authorities wish to play in Nepal vis-à-vis the Maoists? Koirala is yet to divulge what were the Indian agenda or what could be their agenda at time of the talks, if at all it were to resume?

That Indian role was important in this issue is unquestionable. Fortunately or unfortunately, each and every Nepali now understands that the Maoists issue will not move an inch in the absence of Indian sagacity. The United Kingdom, the United State of America and a host of other friendly countries admit this fact.

Ambassador Moriarty was quick to admit this hard reality which he ventilated last week at a press conference but he did so with proper diplomatic finesse and took the advantage of outgoing Indian Ambassador’s statement wherein he had admitted that Nepali Maoists have had linkages with the Indian Maoists and that such linkages were a threat to Indian security as well.

There are so many things which Koirala is yet to reveal. Analysts presume that this time the Indian leaders could have spoken their mind to Koirala on the Maoists.

Isn’t it the time that the establishment under Deuba extract clues from Koirala’s vast experience and from his tête-à-tête with the Indian leaders?

If peace is restored, what is the harm in seeking Koirala’s good offices?