I do not think there will be an election. Election card is just being used to isolate Deupa and claim moral high ground. I think both palace and Maoists want the present political situation to linger for few more months if not years. Both sides might have good reasons to claim that they are maintaining upper hand militarily as well as politically. Most visible achievement of theirs (ironically the same) is to have reduced the status of Makune and Girija as mere clowns of currently featured political circus in Kathmandu. Major political parties, which still represent, at least in theoretical terms, political aspiration of large majority of Nepalese people are now increasingly becoming irrelevant for major political decisions and their leaders? public utility is not more than being subjects of political satires and newspapers? cartoons. Very unfortunate development for a democratic Nepal ! I think for Makune and Girija (and their party by extension), it is right time to take POLITICAL LEAVE for couple of years. Just declare that, ?OK you two Gun-Lovers settle your big questions first, we will deal with the winner afterward?. Just imagine, if they had taken such leave two years back, their political legitimacy would not have been so much undermined. If needed, they can give it political plating declaring it as a SATYAGRAHA (but without any julus or dharna, stay home and watch Mahabharat). As GITA says: AKARMA (no activity) is better than KUKARMA (bad activity). And acting as clowns in such a clumsy political circus is Maha-Kukarma. Nispaksha