Posted by: M.P. April 12, 2008
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The fear, such as that argued by GP, is baseless. Playing with Nepali people's fears is what everyone, including the Nepali media, has been doing all along and arguments that GP makes are a testimony to that. So what are we supposed to do now, GP? Protest again? Ask for another election? Seriously, what's your solution now?
No wonder that your predictions/guesses have failed miserably in the past. Be assured, they will fail this time, too!
There is no denying that the Maoists have resorted to violence in many occasions even after the negotiations with the other parties. But as many people in this forum have suggested, the results are an indication of not just people's fear of the Maoists, but also -- and I think, mainly -- how pissed the Nepali people are with the ridiculously arrogant king and with inefficient UML and Congress leaders. Gauzing from the results so far at least, it is clear that (i) the people want the monarchy to go (whoever was that individual running some 'surveys' and saying 49% of people believed in the king can go to hell) and (ii) the people want the old faces to go, as DWI suggested.
The next steps for whatever is left of the UML and NC should be to capitalize on their international legitimacy (note that the Maoists are still on the terrorist list of the U.S.) and work with the Maoists for a better Nepal, not start telling the public again that the world will end when the Maoists come to power!
Last edited: 12-Apr-08 03:31 PM