Kathmandu: If the Maoists’ statements made in the recent days were any clue then what is for sure is that they will come heavily down against what they call the “old regime” in the near future.

The idea is to terrorize the government and its security agencies by attacking several towns in the country at a time.

The national security agency too appears to have taken note of such possible attacks and is on record to have said that necessary arrangements were being done to face the challenges thus to be posed to it by the rebels.

Two things become clear from their statements and lectures.

Firstly, the rebels would wish to declare the areas and territories under their control as autonomous regions wherein they will have installed their own sort of people’s government. This is what they did only last week in remote western region.

They have similar plans in the future.

Secondly, they wish to puzzle the security agencies through their possible attacks in various towns in the country. This they were doing apparently to weaken the security agencies for if several town were attacked at a time, the unified command will have little force or even no force to provide security to the population. The idea could be to drive away the presence of the security forces from areas wherein they wish to declare their own “new state”.

But then yet, the rebels have not completely abandoned the idea of a talk with the government. They wish the talks but with concrete agenda. No agenda, no talks, is what they say.

However, analysts also see that the rebels differ on so many counts with their own compatriots.

For example, Mr. Mahara last week told that his party would accept a constitutional monarchy provided the King abandoned the title of Supreme Commander of the Army and that he, the monarch, sacked some two-hundred plus army men.

Hardly had the Mahara message regarding the party’s new considerations about the monarchy had come into the open, yet another top-hat of the insurgency, Dr. Bhattarai, summarily rejected Mahara’s new consideration.

“Yes! That was our earlier consideration which does not exist at the moment”, is what Dr. Bhattarai said recently.

Should this mean that Mahara and Dr. Bhattarai differ on the matters pertaining to the King?

Similarly, Kiran Vaidya of the insurgency is talked to be of the view that the insurgency should continue its fight with the old regime at any cost. On the contrary, the commander of the people’s army, Mr. Ram Bahadur Thapa alias Badal rejects Vaidya’s theory but instead reiterates that time had not come to go in for a major offensive action against the establishment.

Should this mean that to attack or not to attack too has become a matter of serious debate in the Maoists paraphernalia?

The State army, in the meanwhile, is cheering its victories against the Maoists and is apparently concluding that the other camp has already become a spent force.

However, analysts opine that it would be suicidal to thing on those lines.

Definitely, the rebels have had to retreat at some places should not mean that the insurgency has become too weak.

This could be their newly devised and acquired strategy to deal with the state security agencies.

Responsible political analysts do claim that Nepal was in a battle wherein there was no enemy as such to fight with.

All that it was a battle being fought by a Nepali with another Nepali”, conclude matured analysts.

Question automatically then arises: Can Nepal afford such a fight for long?

At the time of writing this piece, the Maoists demand for a constituent assembly remains intact.