Maoist’ must settle congress’ conflict first….

What we have been told is that politics never goes undeviated. It appears that what has been said of politics is more than correct. For example, analyzing the current Nepalese politics apparently gives us all the clear impression that it is going not only topsy-turvy but also in a more slipshod manner whose crash landing appears imminent. Clearly and very visibly, the politics of the nation has been brought to this perilous situation by none less than the ruling party itself. To recall, former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba had once candidly told a gathering of the Nepalese intellectuals that his party couldn’t digest "power" as and when it has commanded power at different intervals of the Nepalese history. Understandably, these articulations had come at a time when his party stalwarts had pulled his government unceremoniously and thus could be considered that the words had come as a consequence of his vengeance against those who toppled him. However, the present crisis that is already in the making in full swing is undoubtedly the sole creation of the Prime minister and Deuba himself. Moreover so, the manner which the two congress stalwarts have chose to answer each other is simply surprising for the common men. In sum and substance, the media war going at the moment in between the two congress’ leaders regarding the Maoists’ issue has to a greater extent been able to entertain the nation dramatically. And others living outside the Nepalese territories as well have enjoyed the Nepali drama.

Deuba’s theory is that he has been denied the needed support and assistance from the Koirala government that has restricted him from moving ahead with the Maoists’ agenda and that being the "meaningful talks" with the insurgents. This he says bluntly at the official congress functions through the use of media, which undoubtedly is partisan to a greater extent representing party’s various splinters.

However, Prime Minister Koirala retorts with full force and denies Deuba’s unfriendly remarks aimed against him and officially rejects the latter’s allegations that he has been denied needed authority to deal with the Maoists. Understandably, Koirala too chooses the media to lambaste at Deuba for obvious reasons. In the process, the whole nation gets confused including the international community based in the capital district. Add to this the utter confusion created by the two congress’ leaders in their own party’s rank and file through their diametrically opposed proclamations regarding the talks or no talks with the Maoists’ insurgents.

Now that verbal ejection had been enough, to demoralize perhaps his political rival Deuba, the Prime minister apparently picked his close chum minister J.P.Anand and directed him to summarily go against Deuba and unsharpen the latter’s utterances; which to a greater extent over time damaged prime minister’s credibility even among his own party men. Minister J.P invented in the process his own separate theory that point blank rhetoric maintains that Deuba did not command authority to talk with the insurgents but rather he had been bestowed with only compiling the suggestions for arriving at a solution to the Maoists imbroglio. This perhaps caps all the Deuba chances for the resumption of the would be talks with the Maoists which the former would have wished to plunge into, pleasingly for enhancing his political prestige within and without. Minister J.P’s blunt statements made in this regard also hints at the widening schisms in between the two congress political rivals that is Koirala and Deuba. J.P.Anand’s fresh disclosure also amply hints at the fact that it would be some one else but not Deuba who would be picked up for initiating fresh negotiations with the insurgents. This finally brings Deuba to his size at least for the time being.

Analyzing all these fresh ongoing events inside the congress party, it can be fairly concluded that a sort of fierce political rivalry is on between Koirala and Deuba and that the solution to the Maoists imbroglio was of a secondary importance for the two stalwarts; the primary being undoubtedly the question as to who should in effect initiate the talks with the insurgents, Deuba or the Prime minister himself. Considering the eagerness of the Maoists for talks with the appropriate authorities of the establishment and also taking into account the present confrontationist attitude of Premier Koirala and Sher Bahadur Deuba , it would be advisable to the Maoists’ leaders that they come forward in first settling the congress’ conflict and then prepare a conducive atmosphere for their own settlement. We have floated the idea, the rest depends upon the Maoists’.

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