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Niraj Aryal

The divided Nepali Political front

The King apparently has his supporters in the media, the civil society and other like-minded groups. Likewise, other political fronts such as the parties in the government and those on the streets also possess their supporters in the Civil Society and in the Media. The third one is of course the Maoists, the direction-er of the Nepali politics in the recent times. Though in a subdued voice, the media and the Nepali civil societies too presumably support the Maoists cause. The fear factor can't be excluded in their support.

The leftover constitute the people in the villages, those migrated from villages who have now concentrated in the city-centers and all those hit hard by the Maoists and the State atrocities and now the price hike and this never ending Ratnapark protest in the capital.

Democratic norms and values

The Maoists, if their ideologies, presumably imported from the previous Red Empires cannot be considered as being based on democratic norms and values. And the rest of the political centers namely the political parties both in the government or in the streets, even if without having any concrete ideologies but popularly called as the advocators of democracy and the King whose frequent gestures if analyzed correctly cannot be understood except of being based on democratic norms and values. This is a fact.

The question now arises as what reasons so significant is keeping these two ideologically similar fronts so far. In effect, if the ideologies are similar its corollary is that they should be even closer.

What People Want?

The common men, the victim of these differences in the political fronts, which if avoided could have lived in peace and prosperity. The people who supported the mass movement in the 1990 which overturned the Panchayati System cannot be thought of have transformed into undemocratic in the last 12 years.

The Saga

The Himal Magazine animated picture last week created ripples around the political circuit. The pictures though animated to the maximum represent the voice of the common men. Nothing wrong about its inner intentions. Whether, our collogues at the Himal Magazine should have done this or not remains a matter of another big debate a la restoration of parliament and declaration of elections dates. We the Nepalese make topics ourselves and begin endless debates. Bye!

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