अनि यो चै कथित प्रतिगमन-विरोधी आन्दोलनबारे सम्वादको एक अंश, माथिकै थ्रेडबाट । Posted on 30-Aug-03 07:07 PM Ashu, First of all I thank you for your friendly caution regarding my credibility. However I think quite the opposite of what you have just suggested. To me my credibility is my consistent and reason-based (which you might disagree and that is fine) opposition to the institution of monarchy, my unfaltered faith in the ideology of the supreme power to the people and my 'one-track mind driven by that ideology'. I may add more from my resume but anything less than will make me an unreliable, coward, opportunist and a hollow person. Now onto the ground reality stuff. It is not clear to me what you wanted to prove by quoting that para of Hari Roka. Because I completely agree with what he says in his article. The four major points in his article are- 1. The political parties messed up the Maoists problem by launching a brutal crackdown in the past and they don t have a viable proposal to end the conflict now, 2. The ultimate solution to this crisis is to bring the people into the mainstream and give them a say, which is the constituent assembly. 3. It's been almost a year king Gyanendra is trying one thing after another and nothing has worked. He is responsible for this and there is nobody else to blame. (Note that my cartoon which seems to have displeased you and provoked you to come forward to discredit it with a selected quote from Hari Roka actually is in complete agreement with what Hari Roka says in his article !!!!!) And the one you quoted, 3. There is no public support for the anti-king campaign of the political parties. It's time for them to reassess that. I agree. The only thing I will add is it is not only the public but some party sympathizers and even some cadres particularly from the lower level are not that much enthusiastic about the aandolan of the parties. why is so ? Because their andolan is for the kursi and kursi alone. It is not really an anti-king campaign. I mean it has not become so until now. What's anti-king ? Their demand for the publication of the royal properties and limiting the title of 'Their majesties' to the three members of the royal family ? Give me a break. As I has said elsewhere, in front of the mammoth promise of a democratic republic of Nepal by the Maoists, the demands of the political parties is less than a dead mouse. Who would buy a dead mouse from their shop with a price another shop is selling an elephant ? Ashu, you are a business expert. You can give our political parties much better and credible advice than I can. But if you still would like me to do it, I'll do it in next reply.