Koirala’s agenda gaining clandestine support

January 5, 2005
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Kathmandu: The lone crusader of the demand for the restoration of the dissolved parliament, Girija Prasad Koirala has reasons to be happy.

He should be pleased to know that the number of his supporters both within and without was increasing in favor of his one point agenda and that being the unconditional restoration of the parliament.

As if the support he was receiving in his own home country were not enough, some foreign countries too appear to have begun subscribing to Koirala’s penchant for the restoration of the parliament which he thinks could be the panacea for all the anomalies confronting the nation of late.

However, which countries in the globe were clandestinely supporting Koirala’s cause is not known. However, what is known for sure is that Sir Jaffery James, the British authority, while talking to the press last month did hint that his country would not if Nepal’s dissolved parliament were restored. In saying so Sir James favored Koirala’s standpoints. But then he concurrently forgot to assess the impact of his saying on Nepal’s judicial procedures and its fallout.

Nevertheless, Koirala could find a true friend in Sir James for having favored his solo agenda.

This is not all.

A set of politically affiliated newspapers in the capital have begun predicting even to the extent that King Gyanendra would be summarily told by his hosts in Delhi to go in for the restoration of the Nepali parliament.

It becomes very difficult to understand as to how some Nepali brilliant brains could predict the minds of the Indian side in advance and that they write so with full confidence.

What is that that makes them so confident? The significance of such bold and blunt writings lies here.

Only two things emerge from such brilliant predictions. Either Indian authorities would have leaked this would be happening to the newspaper men which is not an unusual phenomenon or the newspaper men were pushing their very personal ideas to the other side for consumption and act on those at the appropriate time.

Be that as it may, more or less what is becoming more than evident is that India could press the monarch to support Koirala’s initiative.

However, how the monarch would satisfy the Indian leaders would have to be watched.

That Indian interest was growing slowly but very steadily in favor of the restoration of the parliament in Kathmandu also becomes clear from how one Nepali editor was allegedly pressed hard recently by one Indian diplomat to print what was sent to the editor by the embassy which talked solely of the restoration of the parliament.

Should this mean that the Indian establishment sees the need to restore the parliament in order to correct the constitutional anomalies that have cropped of late in Nepali politics?

Does this mean that Nepali congress president Girija Prasad Koirala is enjoying solicited/unsolicited support from the southern neighbor for his cause? By the same token could it be said that Koirala of late is in the good book of the southern neighbor, which the former denies strongly?

Analysts however, do not recall India having officially endorsed so far Koirala’s one-point agenda.

The unfolding events in Nepali politics in the days ahead will surely uncover the truth behind such clandestine political overtures.