Kathmandu: Whether the Maoists like it or not, they have already committed a Himalayan blunder by attacking former prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba who is concurrently the President of congress-Deuba.

Though the Maoists haven’t yet claimed responsibility for the said event, however, Deuba and many others believe that this should be an act of the insurgents.

The alleged attack on Deuba by the Maoists Monday afternoon will in all likelihood generate bad feelings towards the Maoists which in turn might erode their popularity in the country to what they claim remains in abundance.

The fresh attack on Deuba does hint that the Maoists have already concluded that their demands will not be met with unless they resorted to violent methods of the sort of the one they used and tried on Deuba.

If this is so then what could be safely concluded is that the Maoists now will not attend to the negotiating table and that they will apparently engage themselves in consolidating their armed organizations to face the onslaught from the other camp.

Sources close to the Maoists quarters say that the insurgency considers government’s dilly-dallying at the talks were just a ploy to buy time and equip its security machinery. The government too thinks that the other camp by attending to the talks half-heartedly is buying time to equip its people’s army.

Be that as it may, the attack on Deuba instead of benefiting the Maoists standpoints has unfortunately boomeranged in the sense that a good number of political parties have denounced the Maoists attack and have described the act as a heinous crime. The manner statements condemning the attack are pouring in does suggest that the popularity of the insurgency has taken a nosedive.

While the Maoists are slowly losing their popularity on the one hand, then on the other the insurgency appears to have received yet another jolt when one of its senior polit bureau member Mr. Gajurel is under Indian custody for the latter’s attempt to sneak into Europe using supposedly a fake British passport.

Is British passport that easy to procure?

Question could also be asked that if it were a British passport then the holder of the passport must have been in London and must have obtained Indian visa to enter into India while being in London. That the Maoists leaders frequently visit London apparently becomes clear when one recalls one statement released by Comrade Prachanda in which he had stated that he recently attended a conference in London and the statement was duly printed by the Nepali media some years back.

Be that as it may, the sudden arrest of Mr. Gajurel in India must have jolted the insurgency from within.