knightcrawler sorry I could not post in the morning because i was over posted i think. Anyway here's what I posted : Tulsi Giri, Kamal Thapa and many in the King appointed ministry may be corrupt people, but I am sure a lot less than Girija and Madhav and the gang. And, I do not think they did any corruption in the last tenure. Had they been involved in any corruption, I think SPA would have put corruption allegations against them in no time after they came into power. Why is SPA silent in corruption issue if they had done any corruption ?? It is because they have not done any at all. Gauchan was a wrong choice but Madhav, Jhalanath, Manmohan, Bharat Mohan have also killed 12 bahun land lords in Jhapa with their own hands barbarically. Girija if you know, is the first Nepali to hijack a plane in the first plane hijack in Nepal. He is also the bank looter when he looted 3 million from Nepal Bank Limited in Biratnagar in 1950 and took the money to Varanasi in the hijacked plane. I do not think the King blew his chance. Well if you say the King surrounded himself by corrupt people, can you show one single corruption done by them. Well we all heard Sachit Shumsher speaking for the King. Can you point at one single corruption where Sachit Shamsher was involved in? I think the King tried his best but the mob brought on by Maoists and the money from India which Girija spent for the mob overpowered him.... and the silent majority in Nepal just kept silent and let it all happen in front of their eyes. I strongly feel for the injustice. It is nothing but a mob rule or mobocracy because if they were geniune people they would be helping the King when he wanted to conduct free and fair elections.. When they can join hands with the Maoists in destruction - why couldn't they be friends with the Maoists in going to General Elections too???? What SPA wants is to : Reign supreme without the Royal clutches and enjoy unrestrained and perpetual power without any liability as the article now in nepalnews points out. They knew very well that the King wanted to do good work. That is why they humiliate the King as Deuba in his visit to US few months ago stated - "we will not let him work". I agree there may be small mistakes by the King but on the whole the King is not as wrong as the parties in 13 yrs and in the future will be. If some new party emerges and if it will be made of people who are honest intellectuals, that may not apply to them.. But for now the prognosis of Nepal is more grim than it was before. I am of the opinion that monarchy should be taken as an institution not merely as individuals. As individuals they may have small flaws but they will never be bad to the nation or the people. there is a silent majority who respect and love monarchy which if not there will lead to mass migration just like it occurred in Iran and Afghanistan after the Kings there left the country. Both countries were more stable before than after their Kings left. The monarchy represents the culture, identity, history which have evolved over 100s of years ---- and many more things will get uprooted once such an institution gets wiped away.