ram ji before i say anything, i want to make clear thate i abhor the maoists approcah and i fear that if they come to power, they will establish a communist regime and we will plunge into even deeper s***. however, the maosts are there and they are very very close. you said you dont' watn the maoists to come to power. so waht should we do with them? allow them to rule the countryside for another decade? kidnaps school children? burn buses? plant and explode bombs and kill innocent civilians? sure we have a huge conflict in nepal, tara we cannot resolve this conflict unless we adress teh maoist somhow. don't you think the solution to current situation is to bring maoists to teh political mainstream and let there be a dialouguge between the maoists and the parties...they have been in loose alliance for a while now. i am not saying maoists should be allowed to rule as they wish, am just saying, may be it is time we should allow them to come into the picture. coz they are not going away; for average citizens like you and me, we want peace, we want to breathe air every morning, when we look at the news paper we dont' want to see tens of hundreds dead in a police-moists conflict in some remote village in nepal as we sit comfortably sipping tea. and the only way to avoid this is the invite maoists for dialogue...i like to be optimistic. i hope maoists will cotninue thier alliance with the parties and evetaully establish a multiparty democracy. that is wath most of us want, i hope this will not turn into wishful thinking...that is all i can do, hope.