Nepe wrote: "I have been a staunch democrat and republican since sometime around 1985-86." Where did you get that combination of democrat and republican in Nepalese context in mid eights? I am sorry but I do not believe you. This is something like Nepali congress Democratic (Deuba) is advocating constitutional assembly these days. If you remember well it was at the time of Deuba's premiership Maoist broke the dialogue with government because they cannot even discuss about CA at that time. Now they are big advocate of CA. Nobody should be shy to admit that they learned about Republicanism and Constitutional Assembly from the Maoist Movement even they do not agree with their ideology.