Lets hope its SPA and maoist ploy, but i am hesitant to believe that. I completely disagree that Maoist are more popular than parties. Ther is no evidence in the world that a force that really is popular among the folks will hesitate to prove it by election. Maoist are powerfull ( at least to inflict pain on many foklks) but not a force that can withstand NEPALI JANTA, bahya sakti ( whether u like it or not , its gonna be there in nepal), and nepali army. They will eventually find themself as no more than a hindrance to nepals progress if they dont change their tactics now.