Good Point Loote,, i have been thinking about the same thing...i read somewhere that madan bhandari and maoists were already asking for all the proclaimations that are done recently about 10 yrs ago. As autocratic and violent these maoists may sound they do have leaders with vast intellect and forsight that the SPA leaders lack. I further think that the peace talk team of SPA lack the intellects and the maoist talk team will totally dominate the peace talk and have things settled maoist way. There is no compitition betn maosits intellect and SPA intellect.