Kathmandu: A new political polarization presumably is in the making, which might take its formal shape in a week or so.

The new equation is being talked to house those likeminded ones who support Deuba’s new set up or who oppose that.

Understandably, Koirala will lead such an equation that champions the cause of his position that takes Deuba’s reentry into the government apparatus as the constinuation of the act of regression.

The other group undenyingly involve those political parties who directly or indirectly support Deuba’s government and aspire to get inducted in the government at a later stage.

Clearly, Koirala will lead the opposition enjoying support from the NMKP and United people’s Front and perhaps will entertain tacit help and required support from the Maoists who very recently have dubbed Prime Minister Deuba as a personality who has been entrusted with the prime ministerial job to “shield” the monarch.

If one were to believe what Dr. Babu Ram Bhattarai has penned his comments in a broadsheet daily on Deuba and his new government, what becomes clear is that the Maoists will lend their entire support to those parliamentary parties who will oppose the King’s new moves.

To counter this vehement opposition, Deuba is left with no options other than to invite the heavy weight, the UML, either in the cabinet itself or at least get assurances from the party that he would enjoy the UML support all along his tenure. Needless to say, Deuba is being assisted by the RPP-Rana faction and the faction of the Sadbhavana-Mandal. Time permitting, Deuba might induct some other smaller political parties having no representation in the parliament apparently to provide his set a better and all-party look.

The UML too wishes that the Deuba cabinet housed all the political parties represented in the parliament.

How the two contending forces will neutralize each other politically will have to be watched.

But then sources close to the Koirala congress and some from the UML say that the visiting Indian minister suggested Koirala not to create hurdles for Deuba and embrace for the elections and ensure a new parliament. Similarly, Natwar Singh is supposed to have told the NSP-Anandi Devi to join Deuba’s cabinet and accept the elections in an easy manner.

The minister supposedly supported the King’s decisions and assured the King that India was behind the King in his moves taken of late. What transpired in between the King and the Minister for all along thirty five minutes and that too one-to-one is what is causing panic in the minds of those who have been opposing the monarch’s moves even after Deuba’s reappointment.

Unconfirmed reports have it that the Indian minister apparently told Deuba that India might take up the Maoists issue in all seriousness the reflection of which was made abundantly clear when India a day prior to the minister trip to Nepal arrested about a dozen of top-ranking Maoists leaders.

Now back to Dr. Bhattarai article: Dr. Bhattarai opines that the need of the hour was to forge a sort of working relationship in between the agitating parliamentary and the people’s oriented political parties in order to expose the illusionary appointment of Deuba.

All said and done, Prachanda’s preference for talks perhaps remains valid under the aegis of the UN while the insurgency concurrently is more energetically engaged in kidnappings, abductions and the likes presumably to press the Deuba establishment to listen to their demands.

Notably, if the Maoists continue to hate Deuba even as of today, however, what they forget is that it was during Deuba’s tenure they had come to the talks.

Deuba says he will exhibit utmost flexibility should the Maoists come to the negotiation table.

Let’s see how Deuba seduces the Maoists for talks or in what conditions the other side will opt the talks.

How the India factor will come to play its role also will have to be carefully watched.

Eaves Dropper

Influence of foreign moneys in the media? How else does one buy the abrupt dismissal of Bhola Rana from a Nepali Press Institute program? Certainly not dearth of funds. Certainly not incompetence or lack of professionalism.