Kathmandu: King Gyanendra is busy in consultations. His search for a clean prime minister too is continuing. The political parties too have been stretching their on going agitation in order to press the King to correct his past what they call constitutional blunders.

The country is bereft of a government. The bureaucracy is almost defunct. Political uncertainty prevails. No body talks now of the need for the talks with the Maoists.

The nation is in a state of utter confusion.

Given this background, Deuba remains adamant in his stance that the King should restore his government, which would correct King’s blunders.

Koirala insists that the parliament be restored and a government be formed from among the five party alliances currently in agitation against regression. Madhav Nepal concludes that since he continues to be the consensus candidate, he be made the prime minister. Koirala dismisses Madhav’s claim and says that since things have changed of late and hence the name also needed a review implying that he should be elevated to the ranks of the prime minister instead of Mr. Nepal.

The tussle goes on in between the NC and the UML.

In the mean time, Madhav Nepal has come to know that Koirala was dead against his candidacy and is being supported by the smaller parties housed in the FPA.

Sensing this new development, Madhav Nepal too has changed his political strategy. The new UML strategy is to thwart the prospects of Koirala becoming prime minister. In the process the UML has been sending signals to important quarters that should the occasion so demand his party will be more than happy to support Deuba and his party and through him, if need be, to support to Krishna Prasad Bhattarai for the post of the next prime minister.

The Koirala coterie knows this UML strategy. To counter this new UML ploy, Koirala’s men have been spreading the news that how could Bhattarai, a weak and stamina less man could steer the country?

The Bhattarai lobby countered this rumor by admitting Bhattarai to a hospital and managing the issuance of a press note from the hospital, which stated that Bhattarai was kicking, and alive hinting that if he were made the prime minister he could discharge his duties perfectly well.

Thus the fight for the post of the prime minister is on in between Koirala, Madhav Nepal, Deuba and Bhattarai.

What is for sure is that if the fight continues for long, Bhattarai could emerge victorious as he satisfies the demands that have been sought by the King.

Is Bhattarai the man whom the King is searching for so long?