नेपालमा 'सम्वैधानिक राजतन्त्र' सम्भव छ ? छैन छैन छैन । - http://www.freenepal.org:8080/FreeNepal/action/discussion.do;jsessionid=8558334079586C0ECBD7F91DE40F6633?currentContentId=24 No, No and No. It is not acceptable to any of three powers themselves, to begin with. It is not acceptable to the Maoist. They are at war for last ten years to abolish the monarchy altogether. It is not acceptable to the King. It's absolutely clear, unless you are fooled by his empty words. I am not talking about king Gyanendra alone. King Birendra was not happy with it. King Gyanendra is not happy with it. And King Paras will not be happy with it. It's a simple common sense. Who wants to be in a permanent house arrest with a permanent gag order ? Isn't that what Constitutional Monarchy is in essence to the King and the palace ? Hello. And it did not work for political parties either. An ideal Constitutional Monarchy might work for them. Unfortunately nothing is ideal in politics. If ideal political institution can exist, communism wouldn't have failed in the world. However, it is not a question of impossibility of idealism alone (referring to liberal intellectuals who believe in reforming the King to make him adhere strictly to the ideal "Constitutional Monarchy"). It is neither a question of past experience alone (referring to glaring flopping of it in 15 years of experiment in Nepal). It is a question of choice and so is intimately connected to the functioning of democracy. All political parties except old Pancha's are for republican democracy. I repeat (particularly for those North American Nepali intellectuals who have chosen to dismiss republican democracy for Nepal), all political parties except old Pancha's are for republican democracy. It is only Girija, Madhab Nepal, Sher Bahadur and their close associates who are for the Constitutional Monarchy. The overwhelming majority of cadres and lower level leaders of all non-Pancha political parties are for a republic Nepal. Let there be internal democracy in these party and let there be free voting on the choice of political system, an overwhelming majority of party workers will vote for republican system. As a matter of fact, there has been poll and votings of this nature and the results were- an overwhelming majority of voters voted for republican democracy ! (On a side note, it is sad that some 'liberal democrats' of Nepal and diaspora have chosen to keep themselves ignorant of these developments and instead relied on biased data produced by commercial groups to trash the growing support for republican democracy in Nepal) Yes, the support for republican democracy among the workers and supporters of non-Pancha political parties are growing everyday. And there is no going back. It is only the strict internal monarchy, ok fiefdom, that these dear leaders have managed to keep practicing inside the party that has kept the pro-Constitutional Monarchy façade of these parties intact. Let there be internal democracy and, boom, the pro-Constitutional Monarchy façade of these parties will fall. So, if it is not the technicalities but the reality is what matters, then the fact is that Constitutional Monarchy is not wanted by any of three political powers in Nepal. So the bottomline: Constitutional Monarchy is not a proposition for national reconciliation among parties to the political conflict in Nepal. No.