Kathmandu: New Delhi has in an indirect manner hinted the Nepali monarch that when the latter is in Delhi, the Indian establishment would wish to draw the attention of the Nepal King to listen to its three point agenda and act accordingly.

The agenda are namely; tangible step towards strengthening multi-party democracy; striking down any retrograde step to further destabilize the political parties in Nepal and directions to the Royal Nepal Army to engage the Maoists and stabilize the situation.

It is up to the analysts to take these three Delhi agenda in any form: it could be an instruction to the King or could be an appeal. Whatever it is, the agenda have come to the open which deserve deep attention.

Firstly, the first agenda pushed by New Delhi does implies that the King should act in favor of strengthening the multi-party system as if the King had through his past acts had weakened the system now in place. The Indian side however does not speak as to what “tangible” steps should the King take in order to strengthen the system. Hopefully, New Delhi would hint the King on how to proceed on this matter when the latter is in Delhi next week.

The second agenda does speak of “striking down” and retrograde step to further destabilize the political parties. Delhi however, has not hinted as to which forces on earth have destabilized the Nepali political parties. The Delhi agenda also remains silent over the fact that the political parties in Nepal were in a destabilized position for their own faults and that no one other than the party men have contributed to this destabilized position. New Delhi should have understood the fact that it is not due to the fault of the King nor those of the people that the parties stand here totally destabilized and battered.

This very particular New Delhi agenda should have been sent for the consumption of the political parties here but not to the monarch.

The third agenda coming from Delhi is related with the Nepali army wherein it expects that the King directed the army men to stabilize the situation in the country by “engaging” the Maoists.

New Delhi knows that the army is already out of the barracks and fighting with the rebels in order to bring normalcy in the country. New Delhi also knows that the government of the day has been appealing the other side to come to the talks in order to stabilize the situation disturbed by the conflict.

The Delhi agenda does not hint that similar appeals it has made to the other side so that peace is restored in the Himalayan Kingdom, as New Delhi presumably would wish to see.

Apart from the three point agenda, some more hints have come; for example, New Delhi does not mince words that it would wish the dissolved parliament receiving a new lease of life. However, the mechanism is different as expected by the champions of the restoration of the parliament back in the country.

New Delhi prefers a panel to be constituted by the King to be led by a political animal (of Delhi’s choice?) who would later chart a new mechanism on how to proceed with the restoration of the now dissolved parliament.

Thanks that New Delhi is not pressing the monarch to go unconstitutional on matters of restoring the House as demanded by Girija Prasad Koirala.

Koirala has reasons to be happy that India finally has endorsed his view though in a different manner.

India again expresses its dissatisfaction indirectly over the manner presumably the Nepali army is dealing with the insurgents in the jungles. In more ways than one, India hints that the Nepali army should kill their own Maoists brethren come what may. In saying so, India implies that unless the Nepali army came heavily down against the Maoists, the rebels would not come to the table. India indicates that army should build pressure on the Maoists so that the other side is compelled to come to the talks,

The Indian trick lies here. That India prefers a weakened Nepal, both at the popular level and at the army level, wherein one Nepali is hell bent on killing the other Nepali becomes pretty clear from Indian suggestion to the army to go in for massive hunt until the rebels yield.

Now it remains to be seen as to how the King while in Delhi responds to the Indian agenda.

Analysts here appeal the King not to get carried away by Indian gestures, which in lieu wishes to see a weakened Nepal on a permanent basis.

Analysts hope that king Gyanendra would do well if he sought Indian assistance in pressing the rebels to join the talks. The rest Nepalese will manage themselves. It would be for the Nepalese by the Nepalese. “This should be the true spirit”, says one political scientist associated with the T.U, Kirtipur.