Kathmandu: First Bhojpur and now Beni. The security situation is aptly stretched. This is what the Maoists want to prove. And they do so with impudence. Curiously, the agitating political parties who claim no coordination with the Maoists pick up the mantle here.

On the one hand, they bunk demands from the security sector for increased investments in equipment and personnel as evidence of militarization while they gather their scattered workers to Kathmandu for a “decisive” agitation. The pincer tells on the people.

Both strategies aim to sabotage the King’s public felicitations. Undoubtedly, the Maoists bundh and the opposition of the agitating parties together press the security personnel hard. The security sector can’t complain that both Bhojpur and Beni were possible because of this. Indeed, the increased spurt of violence preoccupies the media well to highlight claims from the agitating parties that the elections are an impossibility.

It is now clear that the agitating parties will bank on their previous strategies to denounce any elections without their participation in government as fabricated. The Maoists will also do the same.

This is an oft resorted to tactics of political organization that actually junks the total notion of democratic elections in Nepal raising questions regarding the actual advantage of being in a government that conducts elections. But this is a salient feature that politics must evidently accommodate. And this is where the effort will concentrate in course of the conduct of the elections that must inevitably take place in-order to accommodate event he demands of change in the constitution.