Kathmandu: Nepali intellectuals appear perplexed to note the visit of Nepali leaders to Delhi in quick succession and question as to what makes our leaders to go in for a Delhi pilgrimage?

After the high-flying leaders accomplished their “Darshan ceremony” in Delhi, it was nonelessthan Nepal’s prime minister who went to Delhi and pocketed Indian promise in order to tame the Maoists rebels.

Now, reports say that India is already in a mood to greet the Nepali monarch in Delhi.

Question arises as to what gains the monarch would have from this visit which is materializing close on the heels of the visit of his own Prime Minister?

The fact is that the timing of the presumed visit by Nepal’s monarch to Delhi is some what puzzling in the sense that is India planning to extend some more concrete support to this country as a gesture to Nepal?

If so, the Indian establishment could have offered the same to Deuba, which it did not apparently.

With due reverence to King Gyanendra, analysts appeal the King not to get swayed away by the Indian gestures while being in Delhi for India is a known country for doublespeak.

However, Nepali analysts have reasons to believe that King Gyanendra is a different political-diplomatic stuff not so easily be seduced by the Indian authorities and hence there is nothing to panic from this presumed visit of the monarch to Delhi.

Be that as it may, the visits being made by nepali authorities including leaders of various shades, prime ministers and even the King does hint that India has a role in Nepal whose neither the length nor the breadth is visible.

India has reasons to be happy for her self-acquired role in Nepali affairs, which, analysts say, is the result of Nepal’s sheer weaknesses on all possible fronts in its dealings with the other side.

However, the government is yet to announce the monarch’s supposed trip to India. The other side too is yet to respond regarding this important visit.