New Delhi Exposed!

Kathmandu: The Chairman of the Maoists party, Prachanda, has opened the Pandora’s Box.

The lid of the box as such should have been opened long time back. Better late than never, the box now is open and thus let’s deduce that the opening of Pandora’s Box will certainly carry out its tasks and take its desired negative toll.

Understandably, dark clouds have already begun hovering over the Nepali sky as the opening of this box has summarily insulted, humiliated, and dragged into political controversy such a “traditional” friend in the South which so far had forcefully taken over the administrative charge of this nation beginning early 1950s.

The Indian establishment now remains exposed to an unprecedented scale and with this the Chinese have got a golden opportunity to peep into Nepali affairs as was expressed by the Chinese President Hu Jin Tao the other day.

Prachanda, the Maoist party Chairman, December 22, 2009, collected the needed courage to expose what he calls the “naked interference” of the Indian regime in the internal affairs of Nepal.

Mercifully, Prachanda told every thing about the Indian interference in Nepal’s exclusive internal matters which so far, save Marich Man Singh, have not been even touched upon by Nepal’s Prime Ministers.

One has to appreciate his courage. How long this courage will last is altogether a different matter.

When enough had been enough, Prachanda expressed his bitter and the ad nauseating feelings about the Indian intervention in Nepali affairs which perhaps he may have himself faced during his own Premiership not so in the distant past. Prachanda ruled this nation for all along nine months.

But the question is how come a former Nepal PM and now the leader of the main opposition party who himself took shelter in New Delhi for all along eight years plus and was accorded a “friendly treatment” by the Indian regime become all of a sudden anti-India and spit venom against the same regime which took extra care of his stay in Delhi not so in the distant past?

After all, what made Prachanda to go against the regime which he liked most in his bid to sideline the Nepali monarchy wherein he finally bagged success through the kind courtesy of Shyam Saran-the then Indian foreign secretary? What went wrong in between the Indian establishment and Prachanda in the mean time? Is it that Prachanda was excessively pressurized by his former shelter-giver to the extent that he had to tell the entire history of Indian interference to a mammoth crowd of his own party cadres on December 22, 2009? The crowd was impressive by the way. Some passersby too enjoyed his fiery lecture.

Having said that, Prachanda has already spoken and that the people at large have come to understand now that the Goliath in the South must have exceeded its limits thus forcing Prachanda to ventilate his ire against the Indian establishment. But he spoke on time. So nice of you Prachanda! Some one had to take the lead and you took it. And analysts hope you will keep it up.

Once spoken, now you can’t retract because it has already been recorded. You can’t take your words back. Prachanda now is in a trap for he can’t take his utterances back and begin seducing the same establishment against whom he made scathing statements.

The Indian regime must have come to its original senses. The regime in the South must have felt that it nurtured a different stuff for all along eight years in Delhi.

Things have boomeranged on Delhi by default or otherwise. A befitting lesson taught to Delhi.

Now New Delhi stands exposed because the attack this time has come from a declared India man whose long association with India no longer remains a secret.

New Delhi must repent. The process must have begun in Delhi, hopefully.

However, quite interestingly, a section of the intellectuals suspect that it should have been New Delhi which encouraged Prachanda to talk against New Delhi because had New Delhi been really serious and in an angered mood then why, above all, the Indian Ambassador Rakesh Sood, should have gone to meet Prachanda, December 27, 2009, prior to his departure to his home to brief his masters?

Surprising though it may appear, but the fact is that Sood upon meeting Prachanda said that “We want to improve relations with your party”.

Sood in effect should have expressed his total anger towards Prachanda and his party for the manner his country was taken to task, December 22, 2009, but instead Sood begged to have an “improved relations” with a party which brought his country to the foot path? This raises some eye brows in Kathmandu.

Prachanda’s anger towards India and Sood’s plea to have improved relations are two different line of political considerations which force the Nepali intellectuals to smell rat in the entire anti-India drama staged by the Maoist party more so that of Prachanda.

Sood-the Lord Mountbatten of Nepal has already returned from his Delhi trip.

Or is it that New Delhi still understands the latent potential of the Maoists and hopes that one fine morning the party of the ex-rebels might be of immense support to the Indian establishment?

Observers here, however, take Sood’s meet with Prachanda in a different manner.

This section claim that Sood went to see Prachanda not to congratulate him for his extraordinary India bashing of December 22, 2009, but instead he would have gone there to reprimand Prachanda for his follies that he made on December 22, 2009, and may have during the meet scolded Prachanda and in a threat loaded statement may have also told Prachanda to keep quiet or else India will expose the entire details of the Maoists People’s War strategy that was crafted in Delhi in association with the local “Indian friends” who had in essence drafted the 12 point agreement.

But Prachanda appears to have taken a different posture which is to further expose India. The process has already begun.

What complicated the matter in between the Indian regime and the Maoists party is perhaps the blunt “instructions” of Indian Army Chief, Dipak Kapoor, served on Nepal Army chief during the latter’s visit to New Delhi wherein Kapoor is on record to have said Nepal Army Chief “not to integrate the Maoist militias into the mainstream Nepal Army under any circumstances”.

“Who is this Mr. Kapoor?” “Is he Nepal’s Governor General?” Prachanda thundered at the December 22, 2009 Baneshwar crowd.

By the way, the Indian Army chief is arriving Nepal January 29, 2010.

And thus Prachanda easily claimed that the slogan of Nepal’s Civilian Supremacy had already been missing in Nepal but was found some where loitering in New Delhi’s Connaught place.

What Prachanda ventilated on December 22, 2009, is correct and a fact.

However, how long Prachanda will remain honest to his verbal war against the Indian regime that he has “formally initiated” is a matter of concern for all the nationalists of this country, if remaining.

Interestingly, most of the Indo-pendent Nepali leaders, who survive on doles and grants supplied to them by the Southern neighbor, criticized the Maoists party chief stating that Prachanda out of frustration came heavily down against the Indian regime and that his declaration that he would now talk straight to New Delhi for the resolution of the current Nepal ailments was nothing but his ploy to seduce the Indian regime to bounce back to power.

Be that as it may, Prachanda has spoken. India stands exposed. The Indo-pendent parties will definitely take the sides of their real masters. The Maoists thus will be left in the cold in Nepali politics.

The NC and the UML have decided to warm up the streets against the Maoists.

However, it would be this exclusion of the Maoists which will further encourage the sidelined Maoists to pounce upon India in a much more convincing manner. The hardliners in the Maoists camp will not allow Prachanda to take his words back or else the party will see a vertical split. Prachanda understands this fact.

The Maoists have already declared that they would join hands with the nationalists and the republicans in order to wage a struggle for the preservation of Nepal’s waning nationalism.

How politics unfolds in the coming days and weeks will have to be carefully observed.

The damage is done already. The Indian regime and the Maoists are now already face to face. Who will emerge victorious is any body’s guess.

Posted on : 2010-01-01 14:36:45

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