The security personnel were directed to strictly search MPs after the recent furore in the media over a Maoist MP, Lokendra Bista, entering parliament with a gun. The security personnel scrupulously followed instructions; not one MP was spared the security check. But the Maoist MPs protested the security check. They stood across the road at the Southern gate of Singhdurbar for about an hour demanding that they be allowed in without a security check. Like umpteen dramas this drama ended when the security personnel let them enter without being subjected to security check. The security personnel, again, obeyed orders; this time from “high quarters.”