Kathmandu: Krishna Bahadur Mahara is in the news these days.

He is in the news because he has become the newsmaker.

Mahara is busy these days in clarifying his party’s positions regarding the need to go in for the sudden announcement of the ceasefire with the government.

The political parties appear to disagree to his views and suspect “grand designs” in the whole affair and maintain that the present ceasefire is nothing but a “tacit” arrangement of the two “guns” whose sole aim is to side line the “parliamentary” parties.

But then yet Mahara and his colleague Dina Nath Sharma appear determined to go on convincing the overly suspicious political parties of their sincere motives.

Krishna Bahadur Mahara Monday afternoon and in the evening appeared in two separate TV channels wherein he reiterated almost the same things that he has been in the recent past saying.

His explanations deserve deep analysis.

Firstly, Mahara says that his party is in the talks with no ulterior motives and that this time they meant business. When he says so, analysts have reasons to believe that his party this round of talks will though push their own declared agenda to the perusal of the “old regime” but would not be that mush rigid which forces the negotiations to meet a sad fate. This also means that the Maoists party this time will exhibit more “flexibility” than what they had exhibited last time during Deuba’s premiership.

Secondly, Mahara says that only by claiming that the present system were a multi-party one doesn’t mean that it is that in strictest sense of the terms. In fact Mahara said that it was a multiparty system but which lacked the very spirit of the system.

“The past thirteen years of the functioning of this system has amply proved that the people continued to remain neglected and that the system could not move in favor of the common men for the leaders manning the system tried it to be used in their petty political interests”, said Mahara.

In his opinion, though the system in itself was not at fault but the men manning the system gave it a very bad name and shape.

“We in our party wish that Nepal marched ahead for such a system that took ample care of the people in a much more enhanced manner”, continued Mahara. In saying so Mahara wished to hint that the system currently in vogue in the country has already become redundant and that the further continuation of the same system would mean that the people’s problems will ever remain as it is.

Mahara clearly hinted that his Party would wish a new system that guarantees the rights of the people which could only be accomplished when the people themselves were allowed to write a new constitution through the constituent assembly.

” Have the people ever been allowed to write a constitution that makes them sovereign and assures their basic rights?” Mahara questioned.

Regarding his party’s inclination to go in for talks with a regime that has been dubbed as “unconstitutional” by various political parties, Mahara said that it was a matter of degree only that differentiated this regime with the previous Deuba regime.

” Qualitatively, Deuba regime was no better than the present Chand regime”, added Mahara.

On a query Mahara made it clear that “talks are held between two powers” and that at the moment his party, an already established power, were talking with yet another power that is with the King’s government.

“It is immaterial for us with whom we are talking”, clarified Mahara. According to him, if it were a Deuba or a Koirala regime at the moment, we would have initiated talks with that particxular set of government.

To yet another query, Mahara made it abundantly clear that they were not forced to come to the talks by any national or international force but instead they decided on this issue on their own.

Though Mahara appeared confident in his explanations but then yet what could be read from his utterances that his party was not that happy over the stance taken by country’s major political parties over their suddenly agreeing for the talks with Chand’s government.

In the process of the interview, the Maoist leader implied that his party would not settle for less than the formation of a constituent assembly.

Summing it up, Mahara said that the present system has become redundant; and that a new system that guaranteed more powers to the people be brought into force; and that the people be allowed to chart their own destiny by writing a new constitution through the formation of a constituent assembly; and that the monarchy continues to be a force in Nepal; and that the country’s national interests should supersede all other petty interests of parties and the leaders.