Saroj-jyu,

My pragmatic position/wish regarding the Maoists is that they should neither be allowed to win a landslide victory nor be given a humiliating defeat. Maoist as a third or one third partner of the power would be an ideal situation for all of us in my view.

If you ask me my explanation, I will share it. However, at this point, it is probably sufficient to say that that is also because Nepali people just might have voted exactly like that.

What ordinary Nepali people collectively judge should be overriding to what we the extra-ordinary intellectuals judge and the moment has come.

So I will be waiting for the result to see how right/wrong I have been.

Nepe