Thanks sweetheros. My question then is - we had so-called democracy for 12 years and how come it had such a short life? Here is what I think. I think big part of democracy is the sense of responsibility. It is not only handing power from autocratic king to another "autocratic" ordinary citizen like Girija, who acted in pretty much the same was as any king did by using the party as his weapon. Like I mentioned above, with democracy comes sense of responsibility. Sense of responsibility for each one of us, whether we are citizen or a leader. That is what lacked in Nepal. After living in autocratic rule for hundreds of years, the ordinary citizen do not know what democracy is. They have heard about it, of course. Because it is everywhere, like in India or US or in the West. But when they got it they did not know what it was and how to use this new "tool". That is where the leaders would have come into pictures. Their job was to train citizen what democracy is. And they should have done that by role modelling, by taking responsibilities. That did not happen in those 12 years. Therefore it was so easy for the king to take the power back. If the people were educated about democracy in that time period, do you think Feb 1 would have happened? Do you think that Queen Elizabeth in the UK could ever take the power back? Therefore in some sense, ShresthaN is correct (and don't anyone dare saying that I am the king supporter. Because I am not. But I am not those leaders supporter either). The leaders failed in last 12 years .... big time! And there is no basis to think that they will act differently once they get the power back.