Kathmandu: Political pundits of the capital district remain puzzled over the sudden changed stance of the Maoists regarding the present monarch, King Gyanendra in the last few days.
To recall, it were the Maoists leaders who until recently possessed very negative comments about the monarch specially after the death of late King Birendra on June 1, 2001.
In essence, the Maoists leaders made several controversial statements in between and questioned the credentials of the new monarch.
However, now the Maoists have opted not to criticize the new King and the monarchy but instead have concurrently decided to pour their total wrath onto the present Prime Minister.
This sudden change in their stance vis-à-vis the King has apparently come after the Maoists met the military men last Friday in the Rolpa jungles wherein they are supposed to have talked on the modalities of freeing of the kidnapped policemen and also the freeing of some prominent Maoists leaders currently languishing in government jails. Could be a mere conjecture only.
A fresh statement from the Maoists quarters also clearly says that they will not talk with the present regime for arriving at a solution to their overly stretched imbroglio.
This automatically means that the Maoists too will contribute their strength for the ouster of Koirala with those willing partners such as the UML and the Bhattarai-Deuba-Khadka troika.
It again means that should Koirala be replaced with any Tom, Dick or even Harry, the Maoists will unconditionally join the negotiating table.
However, the new stance of the Maoists were yet another trick to buy time or were really sincere in their words has got to be watched.
Be that as it may, the Maoists changed stance over their newfound analyses regarding the new monarch is simply meaningful which hopefully the local political analysts will wish to mull over.