Kathmandu: The UML is shocked.

The party of the namesake communists are fighting each other and the quarrel has gone to the extent that some in either camp, read the camps led by Madhav and Woli, appear busy in distributing fake pamphlets exposing the other for their previous mistakes albeit political ones.

Though the UML appears busy in finalizing its convention outwardly which will bring in new representatives for the party but is apparently remains shocked internally in the manner the government and the Maoists bypassed their political role while brokering a cease fire.

Most of the top hats in the UML have taken this sudden development as an act that has stripped off their role in the country’s politics. And thus describe the whole process of arriving at a cease fire as a conspiracy for sidelining the established parliamentary political parties.

The UML leaders feel cheated, more so Madhav Nepal, when the latter revealed that only ten days back comrade Prachanda had assured him that talks will be held with the government taking his party in total confidence. However, things happened just the otherwise. The cease fire was announced when the UML was busy in its convention.

A cheated UML now says that Prachanda has yet again reiterated that the proposed talks with the government will proceed seeking their proper and genuine advice.

The fact is that the Maoists lured the UML leaders making them to feel that they were closer to them politically speaking.

Back in Janakpur, Madhav Nepal appears heading towards his victory which means that he will yet again be installed by the convention as the GS of the party. However, there is a difference this time. The fact is that Madhav’s detractors, Bamdev and Woli, through their hard work have managed to push their idea of having a president at the center and further democratization of the party in its functioning.

This could be considered in a way the victory of Madhav’s detractors in that they too could now control the unrestricted powers of the GS of the party.

The party which has yet to come out from the shocks from the happening of the cease fire will certainly center its entire efforts in locating the real broker of peace and will concentrate on how to devise a way that would restrict the growing role of the monarch in the present changed context specially after the announcement of the cease fire which the party claims to be a conspiracy being hatched against the parliamentary parties.

That they will do so gets reflected from their fresh resolution wherein they say that the King must remain under the constitution and that playing politics is not a game for the constitutional monarch. This means that this party will consume much of its energy in limiting the King’s growing role in the country’s politics.

But the question again arises as to what would happen to the four party alliance formed to pose challenges to the King given the changed context? Will that proposed movement against the King will be overshadowed by the sudden developments seen in the country’s politics? Or will it go ahead as declared?

Question could also be raised as to how the King will react to those challenges? It will have also to be watched as to how the population and the civil society will react to the impending moves of the political parties and that of the King as well.

Much will also depend on how the proposed talks in between the establishment and the insurgents proceeds. By and by, what if the talks fail much the same way as it had in the previous time?

All put together, political parties, the King and the Maoists all will have a tough time in the days ahead. A slight mistake might disturb the entire peace process indeed.

It is advisable to all that they cooperate each other for what is for sure is that neither the King nor the political parties, the Maoists included, can swing the country’s politics going alone. Here lies perhaps the message.