Kathmandu: The Maoists insurgency led by Chairman Comrade Prachanda has exhibited its inclination for talks with the government.

This has come to the open through a statement released by the Maoists well after the party concluded their second general convention some two weeks back.

To recall, it was this convention which was tactfully utilised by Comrade Prachanda to elevate himself as the Chairman of the insurgency. However, what position the newly elected chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal alias Prachanda has offered to his compatriot Dr. Babu Ram Bhattarai is yet to be ascertained.

The left leaning leader Padma Ratna Tuladhar surprised many a brains Monday when he divulged that on that very morning he had “talks” with some of the high ranking “comrade” of the insurgency. He however did not disclose which leader he talked to.

Media reports guess that Tuladhar could have talked with the new chairman that is Prachanda himself.

According to P.R.Tuladhar, the Maoists high command was ready to go in for yet another round of talks with the establishment provided the latter heeded to their minimum “demands”.

The minimum demands sought by the insurgents perhaps include the revelation of the whereabouts of their comrade-in-arms arrested by the police in the past.

An energetic Tuladhar also told the gathering that this was the best opportune moment to bring the insurgents to the table and ease the panic prevailing in the nation for well over five years or so.

On the occasion Tuladhar impressed upon the government to prepare itself for a dialogue with the insurgents.

Unconfirmed sources claim that Premier Koirala prior to his French sojourn requested Tuladhar to convince the insurgents about the seriousness of his government for a dialogue with the former. Likewise, DPM Poudel is also supposed to have repeated the same request to Tuladhar.

What is interesting to note is that both the government and the insurgents have expressed their willingness for holding talks concurrently. What does this mean?

Should the people conclude that Prachanda in his new incarnation prefers peace instead of what he is doing now? Or is it that the new chairman of the party is afraid of the formation of the Armed Police Force? Or is it a ploy to linger the government in a dilemma of a talk and collect strength for yet another major attack on the establishment?

The preference for talks with the insurgents exhibited by the Koirala regime is also puzzling in the sense that what could be that factor which pressed Koirala to go in for talks? Is it the people pressure or a Royal one? Is it that the donors have pressurized Koirala, which has become evident from various speeches and interviews made by them in the recent weeks? Or is it that he wants to regain his legitimacy to what he has loosed of late, by pleading the insurgents to release the territories under their control back to the establishment?

Keep on guessing.

Summing up, the fact is that the new overtures from both the warring quarters bode definitely well for the nation.