A multi-dimensional personality indeed!

Comrade Madhav Nepal has already become a mysterious but concurrently a towering personality in the given scheme of political things in this country. A government owned bank Cashier turned politician is definitely ruling the roost. With a modest beginning, indeed Madhav Nepal has attained this height. However, the fact is that to attain such an unimaginable height keeping the communist dogma intact (even if it were for namesake), the man in question must have worked "hard" and played "conspiracy" both but should have played it with proper finesse.

It is this Madhav Nepal who then created a sort of terror in the nation when his paramount leader Madan Bhandari met with a fatal accident a decade back. His comrade-in-arms managed this terror to continue as long as the partymen including its own leaders wished to hush-hush the sad affair for reasons that have been kept yet a secret. That it is a secret that the late Bhandari’s wife, Mrs. Bidya Bhandari, who became Nepal’s minister twice too apparently preferred not to learn the nitty-gritty and the real cause behind her husband’s mysterious killing. The fact is that today no body talks of this charismatic leader.

It is this Madhav Nepal who has kept all the "options" open apparently in his bid to fit-into the scheme of things as and when the scheme suits to his political interests. What a brilliant idea indeed.

It is again this Madhav Nepal who upon bagging thumping victory at the freshly concluded party’s Janakpur convention has been hinting his party colleagues, more so who differ with him sharply on unknown grounds, that he has already become more or less like the legendary personalities of the communist era Stalin or for that matter Lyonid Breznev and hence mend their behaviors accordingly or else face consequences. Poor Bam Dev Gautam is at the moment feeling the heat of Madhav’s Janakpur overwhelming victory. Chances are bright that if Madhav’s detractor, if he could be said so, Bam Dev exceeds his defined political limits is sure to face party’s "stipulated" penal actions. It is altogether a different matter that Chandra Prakash Mainali, Bamdev’s ally till last year when both were housed in the ML party is very much kicking and alive who can save the face of his long time colleague Bamdev should Madhav Nepal press his detractor very hard. Could be good news for Bam Dev indeed.

He threatens the King. He can’t resist the temptations to meet the King as and when summoned. He pushes his "bargaining" chips to the perusal of the King. What transpires in between the King and him remains a mystery but yet initiates tirades against the King perhaps for his cadres and public consumption. Here lies the significance of being a Madhav Nepal in today’s political context.

He rushes to meet comrade Prachanda and Dr. Bhattarai in Siliguri, India, and strikes a secret deal and upon return terms the talks a failure. In the present day context, he expresses his utter surprise at the announcement of a ceasefire in between the establishment and the insurgency and sees in the affair a total conspiracy. He then talks to Prachanda and Bhattarai and tells them to cooperate their agitation against the King. He then suspects the Maoists and says the Maoists appear to be supporting regression in the country. Out of fear or for that matter frustration invites Maoists leaders and manages a sort of joint statement against the Nepali monarchy. The Maoists explanations do not satisfy his brain and lashes out at the Maoists. At the fag end, he then says he is ready to cooperate with the insurgents if they assist him in his bid to thwart regression.

The fact is that Madhav sees Maoists entry into the political mainstream a threat to his party at time of the elections.

Madhav says the Chand government is unconstitutional but would not mind if the King elevates his ranks to the prime ministerial post. Madhav would not mind if the King once again goes unconstitutional if the latter makes him the Prime Minister of an all-party government. What a fun?

Summing up it all, what comes to the fore is that Madhav Nepal is a multi-dimensional personality for whom the country’s politics has already become too small. He denotes constitution. He is supreme leader of his party. He has the authority to sack any one in the party with whom he differs or who dares to challenge his authority. He can now remove the portraits of Lenin, and Stalin from his party’s office to exhibit that his party were not a dogmatic one as dubbed by communist-haters. He is with the Maoists. He is not with the Maoists. He respects the rebels. He equally hates them for fear of being sidelined in the emerging political scenario after the rebels join the mainstream politics. He wishes to be closer to the King. He is against the King and bla bla bla!

It’s only Madhav Nepal who can assume all these diametrically opposed characters in his personality. Kudos to you Mr. Nepal! You are the real asset of this nation.

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