Posted by: naivelyStupid December 24, 2008
Ex-King rejected to Koirala's repeated pleas to meet him..
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The fact is  that our country lacks resources and our education system is really useless. So whatever we wish, the reality is that we need another 10-20 years to have some improvement in our standard of living. Given the limitations no one can do any magic in a year or two. Of course, had there been no war, the last decade won't be wasted for nothing, and some good signs would already be there even with the incompetent leadership we had. Thanks to frustrated commies like BRB and the royal conspirators, our country has to start from level zero once again. 10 hours of load shedding is not only the contribution of Girija but also of Birendra, MKN, and the maoists who obstructed several ongoing projects which would otherwise be operating now. 

King's rule was no utopia as people try to claim here. There were fundamental problems in the system of absolute monarchy, so the maoists were able to exploit them for their own advantage. Only the king could save it if he had acted in time and no one else, not even Girija or Prachanda, could salvage it after April 2006. Whether ceremonial monarchy could be better is a hypothetical question now. We should rather look for the future now. There are several democratic republic countries in the world that are doing better than monarchies. Whether the above piece of news is true or not, no plea of Girija or anyone else can reverse the flow of time. Making Gyanendra the president of the country at this time does not solve our problem. The need of the hour is to constrain the maos in the tight path for now, make sure that next elections are held in time, and dump them in the next elections. Trying to topple the government with outside help will certainly bring no peace.

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