Jibatma-jyu,

I agree 200% with you regarding the need of a constant pressure on Maoist. Such pressure is necessary for their democratization as well as for keeping their revolutionary zeal for Nepal’s extensive reform sharp and any place from where such pressure gets generated is good.

Now the question is, is the current struggle of NC and UML for that purpose ? As much as I can see, not really, at least not primarily. Hence my apathy to their struggle.

Besides, NC and UML themselves have so much inadequacies when it comes to democracy and reform that their pressures hardly have any moral weight.

So I am counting NC and UML as marginal when it come to pressurize Maoist for their fuller democratization and negative or neutral when it comes to preserve revolutionary zeal for change. I don’t count the struggle for power as the pressure I have been describing.

That brings the question- then, who is there to do the job (of keeping Maoist pressured on) ? Is there a party, let’s say without it’s own inadequacies or baggage to feel morally inferior to pressure the Maoist ?

Yes, there is. And that is the public. The non-partisan mass of the public. Their voice is not always and as loud as partisan public. But their moral unquestionability and particularly their natural unbiasness makes them a party with the greatest moral authority for a job like putting pressure on Maoist.

Unfortunately, the partisan mass which is much more active and louder than non-partisan mass has been drowning or sidelining the later. It’s time to recognize and empower this mass if we want less conflict and more progress including “reforming” Maoists.

Nepe