Atti Bho dude "........if there were more leaders like Gagan Thapa....Gynendra would have been sidelined a long time ago........" well, be realistic dude. probably Gynendra is more smarter and intelligent than all the leaders of all political parties and the most important factor in the current Nepali political context is that Gynendra has the loyal support of his army. All prime ministers after firing of Deuba in October 2002 was placed by him as a dummy target and a diversionary tactic. All the puppet prime ministers since then were placed by Gynendra as a first line of defence. First line of defence is always the first thing to break down as it takes the maximum brutal hit while the "core defence" remains relatively unharmed. There is no harm in replacing the fist line of defence each time it breaks down from the enemy action. Gynendra put Chanda, Thapa and Deuba again as his first line of defence while he remained relatively safe. Gynendra successfully dampened most of the anger and attack against him and remained relatively safe by diverting the anger and attack of leaders like Gagan Thapa towards his puppet prime ministers who bore the brunt of attack which otherwise would have landed directly infront of Ganendra. When his puppet prime ministers (his first line of defence) could no longer hold off the attack (by leaders like Gagan Thapa and other political parties) he simply replaced his puppet prime minister with some one else. Ganandra was far smarter and therefore didnt hesitate to use his enemy Deuba whom he had humilated just 2 years ago in October 2002. If you believe that Ganendra's puppet prime ministers fell down from the seats of power because of protests staged by Gagan and the bunch of leaders. Well, I have to say that these protesting leaders brought down the target (puppet prime ministers) axactly the way Ganandra wanted. And let me tell you something, these puppet prime ministers carried no real power at all therefore there was virtually no use in bringing down any number of puppet prime ministers of Gynendra. Gynendra kept all power therefore he was able to fire puppet prime ministers anytime he wanted with any pre-text. The Maoist leadership were far more intelligent than any leaders of all protesting political parties. They knew that targeting prime minister or the government ministers or staging anti-monarchy rally was not going to accomplish anything. They knew that the real power exists in Royal Army and Gynendra, therefore in the last peace talks they didnt see any reason to talk to any political parties and completely excluded them from peace talks. Whenever they have talked about peace talks they have always wanted to talk directly with Gynendra as they know the real power exists with Gynendra and his army not the puppet prime ministers like Surya Bahadur Thapa and bunch of other politicians. For the same reason they have tried their best to hit and harrass everywhere in the country and limit the influence of Gynendra's army so that they can create more favourable situation for the Maoists if Ganendra ever comes into direct talks with the Maoists. Dude dont even think that any so called leaders like Gagan Thapa and the bunch of leaders are ever going to sideline Gynendra anytime soon just by throwing some anti-monarchy protests or throwing some rocks at the police. Gagan Thapa and leaders of so called political parties are simply too dumb and politically too weak do anything of that magnitude. Arrest of so many political parties along with Gagan Thapa after Royal Proclaimation is a perfect testament to that fact and similarly it shows how useless it had been to protest against Gynendra when the political parties have neither grass-root level public support nor the military of their own. I hope Gynendra takes care of Gagan Thapa really well in the prison.