Neither am I a fan of Girijababu but he is the LESSER of the 2 EVILS!! Prachanday is a fuggin Stalin wannabe. BTW, Gyane is out for the time being and he still (faintly) can come back to haunt the Maoists and they friggin know that. No wonder they want Nepal decalred a Republic. If this is done and the King is deemed to an ordinary citizen status, who will lead the opposition against the damn commies. They muscled their way into the cabinet and the SPA just watched them ransack their own house. What makes you think the commies won't do that again during elections?? And yeah damnit, GPK said that the decision to make the country a Republic has to be passed by the parliament and he alone is unable to take this decision. Hell, don't the damn Maoists know that? Anyone with elementary civics/law background would know that it is true. Why on earth are the Moaists resorting to step out of the government when they can contest this issue in the Parliament? The answer is simple, they know that they do NOT have the popular vote and they never will (they've a;ready lost a major Terai base of voters and leaders). The only viable option for them is to cause as much chaos as they can so that the government may buckle under the pressure. And If no one else can see this, then all I have to say is that it truly is a sad situation. BTW, Current Nepali politics can be viewed as a hindi soap opera. The SPA is a joint family, GPK is the head of the house, Gyane is his quiet, low-key wife and Prachanday is the bratty villianous girl who has come in between the marriage and wants everything her way (if things don't go her way, she threatens to dump him and she wants the wife's entire memory erased off the earth). Once the marriage is broken and things go her way, she gets access into the house and she goes on to break the entire joint family taking over the whole house...Damn, what a plot!! Soap operas can be educational, they say but never thought of it in terms of politics!