>That said, as of now, the Maoists is the only political party in the >country with a potential (only potential, mind that) to be the one >we just need to transform Nepal into a progressive and progressing >nation. NC is too old, too tired and now hopelessly disarranged. >UML is bewildered and confused as usual. Others are insignificant. Before it might get understood otherwise, I'd like to restate "hopelessly disarranged" as "helplessly unsettled" state of NC, although I have doubt about whether GP Koirala is fully in touch with reality. ( Selection of Shailaja Acharya for ambassadorship at this point of time to me is an indication that GP is, at least to some degree, out of touch with reality). The problem with GP is that all the popular as well as internal criticism/opposition for his conservatism never reached to him in a degree and form of a credible threat due mostly to the development of situation that brought other more important issues at the forefront. It will probably be not until NC has to bring it's election manifesto for CA that GP will not have to confront the new reality that has developed in Nepal. So there is less than several months for GP to live unthreatened and undisturbed in his illusionary world where he is THE NC, he is THE state, he is THE democracy and he is THE movement. And as for "helplessness", I am referring to the condition of progressive force inside NC. As I said earlier, situation is developing in such a way that this force is not being able to afford to threat GP. The situation right now is in such a worse state, people like Narahari Acharya, Prof. Krishna Khanal and Gagan Thapa are using softer language, and some time disappointingly reverential language, for GP. GP now enjoys the real reverence of the followers of his cult and the forced reverence of the demoralized opposition. The good thing, hopefully, is that it is going to change when NC has to draft the election manifesto for CA. Nepe