I now feel that Maoists are not so much interested in 'governing' with a focus on long term national goals. Prachanda desparately wanted to clear his image in the international arena, and he's done that by touring foreign countries for more than half of his days in office. Not only him, most of his cabinet members have been on foreign junkets.. Their another motive was to make an impression that they are working for the low income / marginalized groups, with some populist programmes.. and BRB's budget has tried to touch it. They probably  now know they also cannot do anything, and things will remain the same... It's almost clear what they'll do next, remember BRBs speech last week --"we'll go to the people for another round of struggle if we're not allowed to work". You cannot deliver, and start blaming others.. it's just ridiculous... 

They'll next start saying that nothing can be done without having a people's republic, and that'll be the propoganda for the next elections. Unfortunately, we have so much poverty, they'll have a following. Anyway, they say people's republic with multi-party system, and though it does not look so easily possible in Nepal, their model is probably the chinese model- chinese system is also technically a multi-party system, only that the other parties (which do not have their own armies) except the CCP are practically of subordinate nature..

The only thing that's looks a bit different now is BAMDEV's initiative.. don't know whether it has made things different but it's covered in the press a lot. Maoist ministers still seem to be busy scheduling their next foreign trips, haven't heard of  any new programs, from them.

Someone rightly said above that the country would have made a lot of progress in the last decade if we had no war at all. It's not the corrupt leaders who'd do it, but the private and community sectors that were developing so rapidly. We can just see the neighbouring country. In spite of rampant corruptions, Indian economy has risen with the initiatives of the private sector.. We've lost a lot of time, only to see a series of newer politicians putting unnecessary burden on our economy..