Kathmandu: Nepal’s conspiratorial politics appears to take a new twist.
This political twist is being “formulated” by the erstwhile Panchas who have already emerged as country’s third largest parliamentary force—The RPP that is currently being steered by a shrewd and concurrently a dynamic politician Pasupati Shamsher Rana.
The new political formulae thus devised by the RPP if brought into action appears to satisfy all the agitating parliamentary parties who have by now already heated up the streets through their agitation clearly aimed against the King and his October 4 moves.
In all likelihood, this RPP “Mantra” will ease the political confrontation that the political parties have at the moment with the monarch and both that is the institutions in confrontation will find for themselves a long awaited “face saving” device for both appear tired of the ongoing clash with each other. For both appear to have concluded that they were fighting for nothing and that country’s interests were far more superior to their ego or whatsoever.
The new RPP formulae provides the formation of an all party government comprising of all the major parliamentary parties at the earliest. The RPP arrived at this conclusion the other day which appears to have been guided by the urgency to bring normalcy in the country which has surely slided towards an unidentified political abyss.
The RPP decision is a matured one, opine analysts, for this will provide the nation a way to arrest the political aberrations that have become the hall mark after the October 4 moves.
The personality who has devised this formulae is a well known RPP stalwart, Mr. Kamal Thapa, who has the distinction of pulling down his own party government in the recent past.
Mr. Thapa appears to bag so many accolades not only from his own party for his “brilliant ideas”, but from those also whose voice neither the Chand government is listening nor the Nepali monarchy.
The fact is that such a brilliant proposition from Mr. Thapa has come at a time when the King too apparently is tired of a government which he himself appointed at the fag end of last year. However, since the King can’t exhibit his anger for his own government and hence, analysts maintain, Mr. Thapa upon reading the monarch’s mind could have floated this new formulae with a hope that his brainchild could give save the prestige of all concerned in the political confrontation at the moment.
It could also be that Mr. Thapa, as usual, would have considered the Chand government to be a bunch of incompetent ones and hence inorder to save his own party government from further insult and damage and hence floated the idea for the formation of an all-party powerful government.
By way of its corollary, he could have been well instructed by some powerful quarters to manage the ouster of this government through a separate political mechanism that gave an impression to all and sundry that the idea were a political one and hence no role of any quarter.
Thapa’s presentation of this new idea is simply very important in the sense that the paper has come at a time when the country is heated up by the major political parties; there has been a sort of misunderstanding in between the government representatives and the Maoists at time of the second round of talks and its agreements specially on limiting the army to a five kilometers radius from the barracks, the clear lack of unity in between the cabinet members; and the presumption that the manner the government was offering political concessions to the Maoists at the talks and its possible impact afterwards; and the statements made thereafter by the Royal Nepal Army plus by the political parties hinting that they were not pleased with what the government side agreed to in the issue of limiting the army to a small area.
Sources close to the RPP say that Mr. Thapa has also hinted in his party-paper of the possible threat that could emanate from the Maoists quarters to the country and to the monarchy concurrently should the Maoists be allowed to enjoy the concessions that they were bagging in series each time of the talks.
Hopefully, the UML which has been championing all along for the formation of an all-party government will be more than happy by Mr. Thapa’s new proposition which accommodated their own political consideration. It could prompt some UML stalwarts’ even to kiss Mr. Thapa in the open.
If it is so and the politics goes the Thapa way, it is presumed that the UML might back itself from the current agitation and might leave Koirala alone in the cold so that he visits the CIAA office time and again as and when they call him.
The fact is also that the UML’s Madhav Nepal would wish himself to see in the chair apparently he now loved most. This is his exposed-hidden desire indeed.
Be that as it may, Thapa’s proposition does not talk of elevating the ranks of the Maoists to the ministerial posts for understandable reasons. The paper albeit speaks the formation of a “powerful” all-party government which clearly means that RPP as a party and Mr. Thapa as a political stalwart of that party both conclude that the King wields at the moment executive powers and presupposes that the monarch will “delegate” that authority onto the cabinet the day such a government is formed in Kathmandu.
The RPP appears to act like a mediator in between all the contending and confronting forces. Not bad.
What is more than important and meaning loaded is that Prime Minister Chand too has accepted this formulae but has conditioned that if this proposition did away with country’s problems and restored peace then he would not mind in submitting himself to this formulae. Change appears round the corner.