Kathmandu: When enough had been enough, the incumbent all-powerful Home Minister Khum Bahadur Khadka exploded the other day in Chitwan.

His lambasting at his own party men was to a greater extent genuine, politically speaking.

In doing so, minister Khadka apparently indicated his party men that as home minister he means business and that his voices should be taken gravely by all and sundry.

In effect, minister Khadka lambasted at his party leaders who for obvious reasons talk differently on Maoists issues which, according to minister Khadka, confused the party-government.

“The Nepali congress leadership is yet to arrive at a common thinking on how to deal and treat the Maoists. Our leaders talk differently about the Maoists, which more often than not embarrasses the government and poses problems at time of its dealing with the insurgents. We must be clear about the Maoists in the manner the UML leadership has already charted its “feeling” towards the Maoists”, said an annoyed minister Khadka.

Minister Khadka’s hint clearly were directed towards Koirala’s changing versions regarding the Maoists of late and the government’s dealing with them at the talks.

This means clearly that Khadka is still at a comfortable distance with president Koirala and his brother Sushil who only recently pressurized the government to make the third round of talks conclusive.

Adding more confusion to the already confused political atmosphere vis-à-vis the government-Maoists talks, former deputy prime minister Ram Chandra Poudel summarily rejected Koirala duo theory and instead told that what was important was not the conclusion of the talks with the Maoists rather the complete end of the violence after the talks.

This amply suggests that Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba continue to be clandestinely flanked by two superb political warriors of the sort of minister Khadka and Mr. R.C.Poudel which time permitting could be used against Koirala overtures aimed at dislodging the incumbent Deuba set.

That Deuba values his “personal rapport” with Poudel gets reflected from the manner the Deuba media machinery, indeed state controlled and dictated one, is propagating the news related to Poudel in the districts from where the latter is airing his total displeasure over Koirala duo statements.

Be that as it may, Deuba is a lame-duck Prime Minister indeed. Some of the ministers in his cabinet know how to exploit the emerging political situation in their favor. If one fine morning Koirala approached them with “sweets”, their shaky allegiance to Deuba at the moment might swing to the opposite camp. More so, the Prime Minister will have to remain perhaps under a constant threat and that being to keep minister Khadka in good humor out of fear that his changing the camp might cause a total collapse of the present day Deuba regime.