Nepe bro,
I agree with your first point on Maoists insistence (not that it was completely unyielding and inevitable though, as I see, since they agreed to shake hands with their once most vehemently hated enemy king, if he agreed to remain as a ceremonial figure. What's more, secularism was not the hot button issue, or so I had thought, until they hurriedly brought the proclamation for the same. However, as I said, I am not against the issue, just the implications of it I am not sure of. I sincerely hope it will be all good).

About the second point, and I am saying this at the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist however to look upon things from all sides and angles possible, I don't completely write off the chance of Hindu extremists or some Pharisaical groups (one such is already in India) butting in to create confusions, if not instant riots, among various religious sects of our society, especially since most of the people are not educated or thoughtful enough to know what secularism really means to their religious beliefs and to the country as a whole. A gradual transformation with adequate awareness among people about the need and direction of secularism would have been better in any case, I believe.

That said, I hope, I am wrong. I honestly do. I don't see the need of this discussion as well as we have already gone past the stage for brainstorming before action. The more we dwell upon it, greater is the risk of making it more complicated. So I rest my case here.