Kathmandu: The President of the Nepali Congress, Girija Prasad Koirala opted not to obey the orders of the CIAA authorities and did not present himself before the CIAA court as summoned by the latter on Tuesday.

But instead he preferred to knock the doors of the nation’s apex court and sought judicial protection from the possible wrath of the highly powerful “constitutional body” with sovereign rights.

As was expected, Girija Prasad out rightly challenged the constitutional authority of the CIAA by refraining to heed to the calls of the CIAA and thus has made a precedence for others “suspected” like him not to follow the dictates of the constitutional body as and when it summoned.

Those who know Koirala from close quarters say that this was not an unexpected event given Koirala’s arrogance which compels him to consider himself at times a citizen “above the law”.

However, Koirala by seeking the judicial protection of the Supreme Court has exercised his “democratic rights” as a citizen of this country. Concurrently what is also true is that he as the president of a party that more often than not equates his party synonymous to democracy has this time around made a joke of his own and his party’s true commitments to a system that is in force now.

In rejecting the summons of the CIAA, president Koirala also has amply hinted that the national population and his party men will come to his rescue and make a hill out of the mole should he be initiated actions by the CIAA for having been not able to abide by its orders.

Two things come to the fore now: Firstly, Koirala has posed a challenge to the established norms and the practices of a democratic system; secondly, in doing so he has also thrown into the dustbin the rules of the game in a democratic system which the system demands from an exemplary citizen of the sort of Koirala who has ruled the nation for most of the so-called democratic years after 1990; thirdly, in opting to take the shelter of the nation’s apex court, he wishes to show all and sundry that he is being made a victim by certain invisible quarters with a desire to make him kneel down but he wouldn’t; fourthly, and perhaps more importantly has done so to challenge the constitutional body which he himself empowered during his own tenure as premier only to exhibit that he is above the laws of the land and that the prevailing laws can’t and shouldn’t interrogate him as an ordinary citizen.

Analysts opine that Koirala by not complying to the summons of the CIAA has exposed himself as a coward citizen and that had he been only making tall claims about himself.

Many people believe that Koirala has not amassed wealth during his prime ministership. It is true.

However, political analysts do suggest that in the name of Koirala, Ms. Sujata Koirala-Jost, daughter of president Koirala who is basically a German citizen has amassed astronomical amount of wealth cashing in on her father’s prestigious position as prime minister.

For example, to recall, the Lauda scam, the Chase air deal and the most infamous Dhamiija scandals did happen at time of Koirala’s premiership and rumors were agog then that it should be Sujata Koirala who made all the secret deals by presenting herself as the daughter of the prime minister.

It should be recalled here that the UML which has now made Koirala the commander of the ongoing movement against the monarchy had blocked the entire proceedings of the 19th session of the parliament demanding the ouster of corrupt priminister Koirala.

If the UML still sticks to its old stand then what could be expected that the party would not come to the rescue of Koirala in cases related with the Lauda, Chase and Dhamija.

That means a split in the present congress and UML alliance could be round the corner. All that is left to watch as to how the UML takes up the CIAA summoning the congress suspects at its court for interrogation.

This will also determine the fate of the movement as well. Keep fingers crossed.