Live wire ji, So, you believe that the elections will ultimately prove who is best apt to lead the government...Are you still high on cloud 9?? Nepal ma "FREE AND FAIR elections" hunchha ra? Let me tell you through first hand experience that I've seen the electoral process in the villages outside Ktm. My cousin, whom I will not name was on the payroll for a top leader of our malfunctioning nation. Every election time he used to take busloads of guys from around my neighborhood to the villages wherever the party's candidates faced a chance of losing. Armed with khukuris, swords, rods and chains, these youngsters terrorized all the villagers who came to vote right in front of the authorities (this I kid you not). The cops did nothing knowing that these kids were sent by some powerful politician who had enought influence to transfer them to areas of maoist conflict. As expected, you know who won everytime. I know that the above was wrong and immoral but now the situation has reversed...The Maoists are involved and I'm not talking of a busload of local hoodlums, I'm refering to the 100 busloads of commies running up the hills beating up people to vote for them. And instead of the days of khukris and rods, imitation M16s and other semi-auto and auto fire arms would come into play now. The Maoists will inevitiably win the elections due to sheer force and intimidation (as Nepal's politics has always been determined that way). Once that comes about, we are all doomed. Be warned that once the elections start, the bloodshed will begin anew!!