Ashu, thanks for posting, especially, Kanak's writing. Kanak did a great job by writing that piece and bringing to us, the insight of the situation. In last 2 years plus, KG tested the strength of Nepali Political Parties. They could not gather any strength, it got deteroirated. Primary reason for that was they lost respect from public because they indulged themselves in corruption, Makune: Rawal kanda and the way he supported Rawal, Girija: his deputies in NC: Arjun Narsingh KC, the two most corrupted guys ruled the NC and his own daughter. All these showed that NC and UML had no strenght to campaign against KG, so his advisors in RNA possibly advised him to take a U turn in Nepali politics. NC and UML fighting over revival of lower house or local bodies clearly showed their indifference to people's welfare. They should have realized this scenario. Last night when I read that King G was going to give a speech, I asked myself will Deoba be sacked again, I thought it can not happen. But, it happened. Now, if the political parties wants revival of their status "working for the people", they should walk and disobey the the order and if required get killed, but make sure the internationa lnews media are around them. But, last two years have shown that they are scared to return to their life style before 1990. Now, they can not go to that stage. So, KG realized its a right time to catch the opportunity and he did what he wanted. Musharaff had already shown that when leaders are too corrupted, the public will not follow these corrupt leaders. Bidambana. Can Patrioits do something? Most of the patrioits who stay in USA are middle class: have jobs of bread earning category, they don't have any capability to raise issues in Nepal in mass scale other than writing short articles in these discussion forum. If there was someone without huge money, they could have funnelled to Nepal to move the political campaigns, without money what can you do? Finally, 2017 returned. GP