Nepal: Gone with the wind

N. P. Upadhyaya

Kathmandu: Misfortune never comes alone. It comes together with sisters and daughters as well, it is widely believed. Sometimes even the "neighbors" follow.

Nepal’s national superman, a made one by some domestic and alien forces for a purpose, Nepal Maoists Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal aka Prachanda is currently being hounded by all sorts of predicaments and bad luck to which he may have not expected at least at this political point in time.
The ferocious one of the not so remote past is taken as a drenched cat by his own party colleagues for a multiplicity of reasons.
The reasons though are bona fide ones. Some were of his own creation and the rest imposed upon him by those who appear to have decided that Chairman Dahal must be told to pack as his insubstantial and fanciful utterances neither were good for the country, the party nor hospitable for the international community more so to the country in the immediate neighborhood, China and India included.
Prachanda is on a slither which is indisputable. His political testimonials are being tooth and nail challenged even by those with whom he shared and enjoyed good old days in NOIDA, New Delhi for several years.
To be candid, Chairman Dahal is currently experiencing some sort of a queer phenomenon going inside his own party to what he even have had not dreamt of.
The entire blueprint of his own party comrades is not only to show his actual political surface but also to prove him as a corrupt, highly ambitious and authoritarian party Chairman who takes sadistic pleasure in ignoring even the party’s structured policies and ideologies.
Several dangerous charges have been already labeled upon Dahal. No escape from the allegations. 
Comrade Mohan Baidya and Dr. Bhattarai, Dahal’s long time associates beginning New Delhi woogly-boogly days, have taken the lead this time to strip off their own party Chairman for his, what they claim, from his “hegemonic and random” decisions that Dahal purposely imposes upon the party.
Not settling for less this time around, at least this much could be understood from what has been appearing in the mainstream media against Chairman Dahal. Both Baidya and Dr. Bhattarai now opine that Dahal must be told to “take your leave” so that the party reenergizes itself and becomes able to serve the purpose for which the party had waged a people’s war by residing in the Indian capital.
The negative front page media headlines in series against Dahal does indicate that both Mohan Baidya and Bhattarai not only enjoy domestic but some international support in their fresh bid which is aimed at not only clipping Dahal's power that he enjoys from his current position but to sideline him once and for all.
Dahal’s meteoric rise had begun exhibiting its dangerous dilapidated trend which is also for real. Dahal must have begun feeling the heat of extraordinary humiliation campaign engineered against him. His pulse beat must have gone up.
Take care Mr. Dahal!
Hero now taken as a villain. So sad.
Several secret sponsored meets to corner Chairman Dahal are being organized at various places across the country but wherefrom the financial supports were pouring in have not yet come to public which perhaps will never come to the perusal of the Nepali observers?
Nepalese pocket money, as is the habit, both for making and breaking as well. Double bonanza.
To be frank enough, Chairman Dahal’s charismatic aura began to observe a nose dive from one of the (un)fortunate days in December 2009, when he roared against the New Delhi authorities while making a earthshaking speech at Baneshwor wherein he dumped the reason for his unceremonious ouster from the post of the Nepal Prime Minister on New Delhi administration.
He pounced upon Delhi to the best he can on that very day.
In effect, the Baneshwor fiery lecture of Dahal not only is presumed to have annoyed New Delhi’s de facto Nepal ruling machinery but apparently it may well have been decided on that very day by Nepal administrators seated in Delhi to bring Dahal to the foot path at the earliest.
No wonder, it was the Indian Ambassador Rakesh Sood who told a select company of his paid followers that “Prachanda will soon have the fate of King Gyanendra”.
Rakesh Sood appears to have finally made him so or is likely to make him as per his declaration very soon. Sood will perhaps remain in Kathmandu until he presides over Dahal’s political demise.
But why he is still loitering in Kathmandu?
The slip-up which King Gyanendra committed while being in power was tentatively repeated by Chairman Dahal and thus the net result has been that while King Gyanendra has already been sidelined then Dahal awaits the same.
But the Indian regime has some logical reasons to pounce upon Dahal because Dahal was elevated by the country across the border for some “exclusive reasons” to which Dahal while in power acted just in an otherwise manner which must have been enough for the Delhi masters to “teach a lesson” to Dahal to what he is being taught at the moment.
New Delhi is a good teacher and is smart in teaching lessons to its smaller neighbors. It is a proven fact.
Moreover, Prachanda’s excessive association with the Chinese regime too contributed to his current fall, analysts presume.
Delhi men expected that a person who was so meticulously nurtured by them must act like a political deterrent to the increasing influence of China in Nepali affairs. However, that was not forthcoming. China has already advanced and is more to go forward. Admit this reality.
The question is now that when a person like Prachanda can so easily bamboozle the regime which provided a safe shelter for him for more than eight years then he can, if a fitting moment approached him and if that was for his personal benefit, can take Chinese regime also for a dangerous ride.
Rumors have it that now China too has become alarmed of Prachanda’s real political intentions. Playing one against the other is his hobby.  
He becomes more than an Indian when he is in Delhi and suddenly becomes a real Chinese when he is in Chairman Mao’s land. But a political man who devastated his own country's basic infrastructure, worth billions and billions, under alien instructions can easily betray the new found friends.
Both Baidya and Bhattarai can't escape from this blame. Prachanda did all he can to damage Nepal enjoying the tacit support from his now irritated friends.  
But yet the million dollar question is how come Mohan Baidya and Dr. Bhattarai who strictly adhere to differing political preferences as regards their observance of India and China’s role in Nepali affairs could join their necks? The reason remains yet unanswered.
While Bhattarai is sheepishly taken as an India leaning man then Baidya finds himself closer, analysts have been told, to the North. This is Himalayan puzzle.
Even if the analysts, for the sake of convenience, take this coalition that it has only been structured for the ouster of Chairman Dahal then it becomes very hard to take on board this fact.
But yet the partnership is becoming stronger with each passing days.
Then should the analysts take that some forces beyond the Himalayan Asian region have been extending their tacit support to this Baidya-Bhattarai coalition?
This can’t be so because Mohan Baidya will be more than pleased not to accept any support from the US and the countries of the European Union if that has a negative impact on Nepali politics. But Bhattarai will greet such a support.
The two differ but yet the combination is becoming a vibrant one. 
But what of the combined effort of China and India in Dahal ouster game? Such a possibility can't be dismissed. Could be a joint effort. Politics has several dimensions.  
All in all, the Maoists internal strife has stalled the Nepali politics. Half of the extended CA period has vanished in Kathmandu’s ethereal medium and chances remain fair that the rest of the days too will have the same fate.
It is perhaps analyzing the current sorry state of Nepali politics; former King Gyanendra daringly cut a Himalayan joke at the conduct of the current ruling elites and even collected the courage to tell a select group of media that “when enough would be enough, I will not hesitate to bounce back to power”.
At least this was the gist of his press note issued on the eve of his freshly concluded birth day celebrations.
Nepali Congress President Sushil Koirala is perhaps in New Delhi to listen to the instructions on how to correct the political aberrations in Nepal?
He has met Lal Krishna Advani, the declared Communist hater and a champion of Nepal being revived as a Hindu state once again, presumably told Koirala during his exclusive talks to look into a better option available in the country itself which could bring political stability in Nepal.
Understandably, the Italian queen, Mrs. Sonia Gandhi, will chart the fate of Nepal after August 31, 2011.
India's proxy Prime Minister Tuesday, July 12, 2011, blessed Sushil Koirala.
As of writing this story, Sushil Koirala is yet to be blessed by Mrs. Gandhi-Bharat Ki Bahu as Baba Ramdev describes her.  
By the way, if Nepal Maoists split, it would shake the entire region whose impact will both be felt in Delhi and Beijing. Both the countries will feel the Nepali thump.
How these two power centers have been looking at Nepali affairs, more so of the ongoing Maoists heightened strife will be more than rewarding for the observers here to understand.   
But will Chairman Dahal not bring to use some cards that may be still under his sleeves? Or he is already a sinking horse? Efforts are in progress to declare to be so.
Every unnatural height has a definite fall. Yet the analysts have some sympathy for Chairman Dahal.

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  • Posted on - 2011-08-12    by     bhimrajgurung
  • It does not take long to condemn a person who has done good and who aims at doing good to the nation and the poverty stricken people who have no voice at all.They are all deaf and dumb!Dirty politics of Nepal has seeped into the ranks and file of Maoists also.Time is the best healer.All should be mentally prepared for the 'Best' or 'Worst' situation in the days to come.
  • Posted on - 2011-07-15    by     maya
  • This is such a badly written article. What is the point of it? No understanding of political issues, no understanding of the way foreign relations function, and certainly no understanding of English grammar, metaphors, and general language use. Utter rubbish. This article reads like a trashy tabloid magazine, not a serious newspaper.
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