Yeah, I agree to MadDogg and KnightCrawler. This is a time to analyze things through who has done what more or what better to be called a better party or a leader. blaming just the king is not the right thing to do at the moment. right now, the king has become merely a scapegoat. The maoists needed a safe landing from their 10 years of bloody revolt. They knew they could not win over the army or get all of their demands fulfilled. They settled for stripping the king off his powers. Its all a dirty game of negotiations and reconciliations. Nothing else. Whereas, the political parties also thought its time for change and so went with the maoists. Girija is on his way to establish himself as a legend no matter his party is the most undemocratic in the whole nation. I think everyone else is on their way to getting a share of their fame except the king. Well, talking about the Maoists, how different are they from the royalists? Even they suck blood and sweat from the poor people. they are worse because they do it at gunpoint and violence and human rights violation and torture. Well, anyways they are into politics now. Its time to see what kinds of long term political and economic agenda they do have. How are they gonna rehabilitate the internally dislocated people from the war? Or are they gonna take a larger burden of responsibility over that? Since all these months of peace agreement, nothing seems to have been done in that regard. the parties, including the maoists are just struggling for power, trying to safeguard a larger bargaining power, nothing to be done to win over the hearts of the general nepali public. The maoists are definitely the most resourceful and the richest party in the nation now. they have accumulated billions of rupees by looting the general public. What did they give back? one and only thing they did not intend to give but was the obvious outcome of the revolt is the political and economic consciousness they created in people throughout the nation by their 10 years of war. However, this is true with any bloody war. Even after the 1990 revolution, people became more conscious and had a zeal to do something. the leaders, they could not keep up with their initial impression. I don't have much hesitation to say that whatever development happened in the nation since 1990 is more than 90% fueled by private sector and public initiative. the government did almost nothing. I am almost sure that same power struggle is going to resume for at least 5 years now. This time with 3 big parties.