Nepalese politics is heading in positive directions. Let's hope we will end up with some positive changes in the near future. - http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=41712 ******************************************* UML leaders might meet Maoists in Lucknow KOL Report KATHMANDU, June 2 - A delegation of the CPN-UML, comprising of its leaders Bamdev Gautam and Hari Parajuli went to Lucknow via Nepalgunj last Saturday, possibly to hold dialogue with Maoist leaders within this week, said news reports. Gautam and Prajuli were seen alighting at Nepalgunj airport and heading towards Indian border town of Rupediya to take a bus for Lucknow on Saturday, reported our correspondent J. Pandey. Some of the UML members who returned from Rupediya after seeing off Gautam and Prajuli said: ?Our team might meet the Maoist leaders in Lucknow.? Last year, CPN-UML General Secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal had also met Maoist supremo Prachand in Lucknow in a similar fashion. There have been reports in the past weeks that Maoist leaders Baburam Bhattarai and Krishna Bahadur Mahara were in New Delhi, possibly in the second week of May, and that they had met representatives of the Nepali political parties there as well as Indian political leaders and intellectuals. However, the UML?s office in Kathmandu has not yet said anything regarding Gautam?s visit to Lucknow. (hb)