Kathmandu: Nepali Congress President Girija Prasad Koirala is in a flying mood.

His speeches and lectures he has made upon his return from Delhi pilgrimage provides one the impression that he is the one heading a parallel government of which naturally he is the Prime Minister.

Undoubtedly, his ambitions got a Phillip while he was in India. The manner Koirala was well received and treated by the leaders manning today’s Indian establishment does clearly hint that Koirala continues to be an important political partner for them in Nepal. Indeed very disturbing news for his detractors and political rivals.

However, what is puzzling is that Koirala talks contradictory languages. He says he did not meet the Maoists. At another moment he and his political aides confirm that Koirala did talk to the Maoist Supremo over telephone.

Upon his return to Kathmandu, Koirala says at the airport that he did not meet whom he wanted to see but then yet he did initiate some meaningful contacts with the leaders of the insurgency.

The next day Koirala beamingly tells his party cadres not to panic and that he has already thrown the ball into the court of the Maoists and that he received very positive signals from the other camp.

Still a few days later Koirala begins revealing what as a senior politician he should have not. Koirala begins talking as if he were the country’s Prime Minister and that in that capacity he talked with the leaders on the matters related with the Maoist insurgency wherein he sought their support in settling the issue for good.

Koirala in the process of revealing even goes to the extent that he have had extensive discussions with the UN officials and that the UN at his call is all set to establish a sort of HR Cell in Nepal to monitor the activities of the Nepali establishment and that of the Maoists insurgents is the two declare a ceasefire and the insurgents agree for laying down their arms prior to the talks.

Koirala however, remains tight-lipped on how the Indian establishment reacted to Koirala’s preference for the UN mediation to an exclusively homegrown Nepali issue?

But then yet perhaps sensing the Indian sensitivities, Koirala appears to have convinced his Indian friends that he was in favor of the UN involvement to the extent that their presence could be felt and that the UN will not get engaged in any form in settling the issue for good.

Koirala’s admission that he has convinced his friends in Delhi is true to the extent that India too now considers the Maoists issue as a “shared security problem” which got reflected when the outgoing Indian Ambassador Shyam Saran did disclose this at a NTV telecast made Monday evening.

However, what is also clear from the Ambassador’s subtle hint that since Nepal was competent enough to settle this issue, India will be pleased if this Kingdom did it on its own and opted not to invite others.

Albeit this he said in an implied manner.

( Media sources say that Koirala met comrade Prachanda on a Thursday in Delhi at the official residence of one Indian parliamentarian, Mani Limbu, writes one weekly that is supposedly close to prime minister Deuba in its latest issue. This revelation remains to be substantiated yet).

Now question arises as to why the things India ventilated to Koirala on matters related to the insurgency, she is hesitating to tell it to a competent and a legitimate government in Kathmandu? Or should we the Nepalese consider that what the Ambassador said in the interview is the official position of the Indian establishment vis-à-vis the Maoists?

Perhaps yes! After all Ambassadors are posted to do such things.

Yet another question comes to the fore is that whom should the UN officials contact to discuss such sensitive matters? With a legitimate government or with the captain of a political party who possesses some sort of allergy with the kind of establishment Nepal has at the moment and more so who has a bad-taste for the man who is the chief of the executive at the moment?

Well, the analysts say, that if the UN officials or for that matter Kofi Annan himself are talking with Koirala to garner support for the UN mediation in Nepal, that is different. But the manner Koirala is presenting himself as regards the UN mediation what could be inferred is that every thing has been decided in between Koirala and the UN and that the UN is all set to step in Kathmandu any moment from now.

This is puzzling indeed.

The fact is that the Nepali establishment is dead against the UN mediation. At least this is the impression among the public who wishes to know as to why the government of the day is rejecting the UN mediation at the first place? What is the harm in inviting the common friend, the United Nations? Is it that the rejection is only due to the fact that Comrade Prachanda has demanded it?

Be that as it may. Koirala’s activism or adventurism or give it any name, is helped restore normalcy and becomes the harbinger of peace, let’s welcome. After all, Koirala too is the son of the same soil and he too as a matured leader of the country has the right to convince the insurgents.

But Koirala also should not forget his political limits. He is by and large the leader of a political party and nothing more than that.

It would have been nice and fairly more productive if Koirala’s activism were combined with whatever efforts the Deuba set would have been doing in this regard though secretly.

But will Koirala prefer to tie his moves with those of the government? Perhaps not. It’s ego problem.