Mr. Truth,

If you read my piece in totality, you would see that my observation was that Maoists are lonely in terms of having a good team of technocrats.

A few months ago, at some public meeting, Prachanda was bluffing (as it appears now) that he has a team of brilliant experts and they are working out a chamatkari vision for Nepal’s economic transformation. I almost believed that. Months have passed, I do not see even a shadow of these mysterious experts in the vision Maoist has presented so far.

I have read both Planning Commission’s three year Interim plan (2007-10) and Nepal Government’s current policy and program and I do not see any indication of any new vision for Nepal. Everything is old-fashioned: empty slogans, wishful objectives and false dream.

I am amazed to see Prachada relying on the selling of the same false dream about hydro-dollar for our chamatkari bikas. Hydro-dollar has been already proved a myth. The cost of production of hydroelectricity in Nepal is 1.5 times higher than the same in India. Put that on top of our own domestic need and now already deeply rooted massive corruption in water (water-mafia). How far can our water take us to ?

Nepal needs a serious introspection of our natural resources, a serious search for alternative resources (for example, how about working towards turning Nepal into a center of excellence for education, finance or knowledge based technology ?). But for that, the first thing we need is the end of current anarchy, instillation of the culture of rule of law and creation of enough space for technocracy and end of partisan politicization of public institutions and so on.

Obviously, Maoist in it’s current political form and mindset is completely incompetent to the task. Even if there is some benevolence in one or two leaders (which I doubt), the whole leadership, cadres, PLA and YCL have communist fanaticism and Mafioso mindset. They repel any sound minded technocrat to hundreds feet away from Maoist.

And this is exactly what I was pointing to when I said Maoist is lonely and not getting cooperation from anybody. I was simply putting the blame on Maoist itself (for being unable to transform itself and attract technocrats to it).

So was my point about the loss of monarchy. The blame for monarchy failing to survive is on monarchy itself.

I do not see any self-contradiction in these straight forward statements of simple facts.