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WITH PRACHANDA, INDIA MUST SEIZE THE MOMENT

By Ashok K. Mehta
Editorial
The Pioneer
http://www.dailypioneer.com
Wednesday, August 3, 2016

India must engage Nepali leaders politically, not through
agencies or diplomats, which should be the exception. The
mistrust between New Delhi and transformed Maoists will
slowly evaporate as both have learnt lessons

About the providential come-back today, after a gap of
seven years of Prachanda as the 24th Prime Minister of
Nepal in 26 years, most Nepalese will say: "Lord
Pashupatinath ordained it". Some will add: "and India".
After all, New Delhi has been instrumental in all the
historic changes in Nepal: Restoration of active monarchy
(1950); revival of democracy (1990) and initiation of the
ongoing peace process in 2005. Ironically, it is Indian
diplomats who cite the dismissal of Prime Minister
Prachanda in May 2009 and subsequent prevention of a
Maoist-led Government till Prime Minister Baburam
Bhattarai was assisted in forming one in 2011 as their
political victory. Now the same but transformed though
weakened Prachanda (82 seats) has broken the Left
alliance Government with Unified Marxist-Leninist (UML)
led by KP Oli and for the first time initiated a Left
(Maoist)-Right coalition with Nepali Congress (NC) (207
seats).

This experiment was to have started earlier in May this
year but was aborted due to differences among the Maoists
and the decisive role played by China for the first time
in Nepal's domestic politics in rescuing the Left
alliance Government. This time around, though, realising
the dye had been cast, Chinese Ambassador Wu Chintai has
assured Prachanda of full support in order that the 10
agreements signed by Oli with China will be honoured.
Seizing the initiative, Prachanda told the Ambassador
that the deals were infact conceived by him.

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Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti

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