Kathmandu: The RPP headed by its new Captain Monsieur Pashupati Rana, is in a dilemma.
The dilemma revolved around whether to go alone or rejoin the six-party alliance for the restoration of the order prior to the October 4 Royal moves.
If on the one hand, the party would very much wish to support the King and his October 4 moves in order to gain confidence of the monarch, on the other the party can’t dismiss its previous alliance with other potential political players of the country in order to exhibit its “democratic” credentials.
To recall, the party’s in the said six-party alliance tentatively have dubbed the RPP and the NSP as undemocratic forces for their joining the government led by Chand which they prefer to call unconstitutional and undemocratic.
Apparently with a strong desire to regain its former democratic credentials, the party Chief Mr. Rana is reported to have met Madhav Kumar Nepal and president Koirala in his bid to convince both not to think otherwise of the party led by him.
However, Mr. Rana is supposed to have subtly hinted that though his party was all prepared to join the six party alliance to thwart the possibility of a reversal but would wish that a sort of total consensus in between the parties and the King prevailed in order to tackle the situation that surfaced after the October 4 moves.
How the UML and the Congress led by Koirala took Rana’s fresh avowal will take some time to emerge.
In the meantime, the congress led by the first officially declared “incompetent” prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba too is learnt to have indicated that his splinter congress too would join the front that time permitting will wage a movement to press the King to yield to their political demands.
This being the fresh political reality, the fact is also that the three, the UML, Cong-K and Cong-D have their demands intact.
While Koirala would wish the restoration of the now dissolved parliament, then Deuba would prefer his reinstatement as the country’s prime minister and the UML would expect an all party government that will take care of holding of the elections.
It is surprising therefore how these three diametrically opposed parties with three different demands will converge?
All said and done, the four parties have already decided to initiate the movement against the monarch. The UML has said that it would join the front after its convention concludes. RPP prefers reconciliation. NSP is in a limbo. Deuba with his meager strength is less to contribute to the proposed movement. Koirala congress appears to have changed its mood as Koirala told Monday that he would wish a sort of unity in between the King and the political parties.
The fact is also that all these political parties remain scared of the Maoists party which has already declared that the movement to be waged by the parliamentary parties will not succeed until and unless their participation was not there.
Should this mean that if invited the Maoists will join the movement proposed by the six-party alliance excluding RPP and the NSP?
But the fact is also that if the Maoists join the front, will not this grouping take over the movement and thereby pushing the main agitators to the background? There is a possibility indeed.
The congress and the UML perhaps understand this possibility better.