Leaders of the SPAM are trying to show that they have been gripped by the election fever. But their enthusiasm does not seem to be infectious. The rest of the country is not only skeptical but outright pessimistic that this time also elections to the constituent assembly will definitely be postponed at the last minute. Since the SPAM leaders are over confident that there is no power on earth, at the moment, that can displace them from the seat of power, they naturally are neither keen nor sincere for elections to the consembly. Their vociferous outbursts for the elections and their campaigns under tight security, do not manifest their hidden insincerity. They are a wonderful camouflage to hide their keen interests in the hundred of millions that have been apportioned for the conduct of the elections not to say anything about the huge undeclared amount the donor countries, who are votaries of democracy and friends of the poor Nepalis, would be providing. Moreover, their machinations to support each other to make their protégés win would turn the elections, if they are ever held, into only a farce. Besides, the frank call given by the supremo of the CPN(Maoists) Prachanda, that they would capture power whether they win or lose the elections also would make the elections only a drama. The intolerance being practiced by the SPAM against all non-SPAM politicians and political parties clearly indicate that they won’t be granted full security and equal opportunities to campaign. As a matter of fact, the continuous abductions, loots and killings would never inspire other political contenders to risk their lives. In the existing situation, no politician other than belonging to the SPAM would seriously think of contesting the elections even if he believed the elections were going to happen. But, the volatile environment in the Terai with scores of Madhesi groups bubbling for the fulfillment of their illogical demands and resorting to murders, Bandhs and Chakkajams does not guarantee that SPAM government would be able to bring all the Madhesi groups to the negotiating table before the elections. The SPAM politicians must be aware that it might not be quite easy to placate the resenting Terai leaders. In such a volatile and uncertain situation, India could play a very important and positive role to bring peace and normalcy to the tiny neighboring country which is supposed to be traditionally a friendly nation with so many commonalities. Unfortunately, this will not happen. And Nepal’s lop-sided foreign policy has turned her into a satellite state. As such, if all the poor millions of patriotic Nepalis are keen to safeguard their sovereignty, their heritage, their religion and their traditional independent character, they have to gird up their loins and jump into the fray. We are confident that the patriotic Nepali army will stand by them shoulder to shoulder.

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