Kathmandu: NC President still believes that the King will finally yield to his demands.

Madhav Nepal of the UML nurtures the ambition that one fine morning he will head a government formed by the King that will comprise practically all the parliamentary parties.

Lokendra Bahadur Chand apparently thinks that his days in government will continue for a few weeks more should things proceed his way of thinking.

The Maoists are enjoying and benefiting politically with the rift that is ever widening in between the government formed by the King and the parliamentary parties.

The students have come to the streets and appear determined to force the government until their demands are met with.

The civil society and the lay men appear confused with the unfolding events that is definitely going from bad to worse.

The King remains undeterred with the various challenges and allegations being labeled against him more specifically by president Koirala and Madhav Nepal of late.

In effect, these two leaders have stepped up their anger against the monarchy stating that the King’s words and deeds differ.

The King is silent and is as is understandable not in a position to issue statements to refute to each and every accusations coming as it does from various political quarters.

The partisan media is harping on the political lines as instructed by their political masters.

In the process, the country is being pushed to the fast approaching abyss. The international community, which wishes to see a peaceful and a fully democratic normal Nepal, too remains bewildered but then is closely monitoring the events that are unfolding every now and then.

The fact is that a sort of triangular fight is on in between the parliamentary parties, the King and the Maoists. Each amounts to a force in the given context in this Himalayan Kingdom.

Clearly, the parliamentary parties would wish to press the King to bring them back to power and hold the elections. The King doesn’t listen to their outbursts.

The Maoists would wish a quick and profitable solution to their overly stretched imbroglio from the King. However, the fact is that the speed of the King’s government is such that it has already annoyed not only the Maoists but the lay men as well.

The King would wish to have greater say in the state of affairs of the country even after the conclusion of the talks with the Maoists by convincing the countrymen about his importance in maintaining the unity in and among the population and in the process he assures the people that he is committed to the system now in place. The parliamentary parties propose for the King a limited role which the King apparently rejects.

Thus revolves the country’s politics and add to this the impending Nepal Bundhs that appear to be in series in the coming days. Just calculate the loss both in terms of political and economical.

Though it might be their political strategies to press one another for bagging greater concessions from the other, the fact is that the country is paying for these unwarranted games, conclude analysts.

” Neither the King nor the parliamentary parties and even the Maoists could afford a sort of confrontation with each other given the existing power balance of the three forces namely, the monarchy, the Maoists and the parliamentary parties”, said a political scientist to this scribe on condition of anonymity.

He then elaborates his theory by saying that if any of the two forces out of the three side with each other would mean the annihilation of the remaining third one.

“I would suggest the leaders who represent these three diametrically opposed forces to understand the ground reality more so the strategic location and of the cultural diversity of the nation and remain intact so that the power balance doesn’t fluctuate”, added the political scientist.

Be that as it may, president Koirala and Madhav Nepal have instructed the already agitating students to continue their agitation sine die until the government yielded to their demands and finally collapsed which is what they clearly wish.

Koirala’s anger against the King has increased in the recent days gets reflected from his blunt saying that it is the Nepali royalty that has ever remained the root cause for the instability in the country more so since 1990.

Madhav Nepal says he suspects the King’s very democratic credentials. He concudes that King’s words and deeds sharply differ.

The rest of the political parties do not have their say individually but then hang around the two parties namely the NC and the UML.

The delay in the beginning of the talks and the widening rift in between the King and the parliamentary parties is worrying the Maoists who wish to celebrate their victory after the talks.

All put together, the country is in a mess. Who benefits from the continuing confrontation in between the three established forces is any body’s guess.

Responsible analysts opine that the King being the guardian of the nation must now act to diffuse the political stalemate. They maintain that if the King can meet person like Bijaya Kumar Gachhedar, why can’t he invite all the leaders of the parliamentary parties at one place and seek their suggestions on how to come out unscathed from the ongoing political mess.

This applies to the political parties too, say the analysts.

“Why the disgruntled leaders do not approach the King once again and convince the latter so that any misunderstanding that could be there vanishes in the thin air after the meeting”, so said a prominent civil society member.