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Contrary to a peace deal to decide the future of Nepal's god-king through elections to a Constituent Assembly in mid-June, the current Nepali government is stalling. The current government was supposed to form an interim government by now, one that included the Prachanda Path people that had taken up arms.
Instead, the ruling party called the Nepali Congress has adopted a partisan posture. Although no party has a majority in the interim Parliament, the ruling party has claimed all the major government ministries.
By a strict count, the second and third parties could combine for a majority in the Parliament and oust prime minister Koirala. Hence it is baffling how Koirala proceeds by alienating the Parliament's majority.(1) It seems unlikely he would do that in normal circumstances, circumstances in which he was not engineering a coup with international support.
One of the traditional parliamentary parties, one that has won parliamentary elections in Nepal in the past, UML has said that there is a "coup" afoot against the peace agreement reached in November 2006. Party leader Madhav Kumar Nepal blamed both international and national forces for the recent massacre of another party's members in Gaur.(2)
Very significant is the statement of the UML about how the current government is afraid of losing upcoming elections, hence its turn to supporting Madhesi disorder to destroy the implementation of the peace agreement.
"Saying that the CPN (UML) was against authoritarianism, Nepal said: 'An interim government should be formed and the date for the CA polls announced early.' He alleged that those parties which had failed to win people's hearts were playing games to put off the CA polls."
From the point of view of Prachanda Path rebels that used to undertake armed struggle, there is no interim government, no republic, no dispatching of the king and no elections on the horizon. Instead, for following gun control schemes of supposed Liberals, the Prachanda Path and its allies suffered 28 dead in a massacre for trying to speak from a podium on March 21.
Not surprisingly, the Prachanda Path people are now talking about not trying to join the interim government.(3) They were not receiving portfolios in the government proportionate to their parliamentary strength and the Prachanda Path people could see that the Nepali Congress was bent on destroying the peace agreement implementation for Constituent Assembly elections. Without portfolios, there is little reason for the Prachanda Path people to take the blame for the disintegration of Constituent Assembly elections being planned by the government.
We applaud the Prachanda Path people for offering to assist in the elections to decide the fate of the king. They cannot be asked to take the blame for the parliamentary scheming of U.$. and Indian-backed Nepali Congress. If the Koirala regime cannot bring off the elections, it will be a clear lesson why it is not possible to deal with U.$. imperialism and bourgeois parliamentary forces, even just to be rid of monarchy. Then the people of Nepal can take up genuine Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and undertake People's War.
Notes:
1. http://www.telegraphnepal.com/news_det.php?news_id=399
2. http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?nid=104626
3. http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=104713