GP Koirala had been maintaining amazing degree of resilience against all kinds of pressure to defend his pro-monarchy stand until a few days ago. Koirala was for a decent and significant political role for the king. His motivation was not only NC's old principle but also palace's natural reward to it's least enemy. Palace indeed helped him by creating atmosphere to emerge as a singular leader by doing whatever it could- dumping and jailing his contenders and sending signals of objection to the leaders of other parties. King must have a big hope from this least enemy when he surrendered to Jana-andolan. This hope shattered yesterday. Koirala sure tried upto the point it was possible. When the situation was still confusing, he went to palace to take oath of PM and to set still a favorable condition for retaining monarchy in "constitutional" form. When it became clear to Koirala that he will have to sacrifice himself to try to save constitutional monarchy, he gave up on the monarchy. Koirala's co-operation to bring yesterday's HoR declaration indicates that he has decided to let monarchy be on it's own. King must be shocked to find himself dumped by GP Koirala at this point. Another aspect of the story. It was Koirala's pro-monarchy stand so far that was making Maoist's army look indispensable to fight for "democratic republic". Now things are little changed. With king losing traditional legitimacy, the (R)NA will also be going less and less pro-monarchy in coming days. This will make the Maoist army less and less indispensable to pro-republic mass accordingly. It is to be seen how things go. However, now all parties SPA, (R)NA and PLA are under constraint to take more and more popular decisions and behave nicely. Nepe