Nepal: Don't Exceed Diplomatic Limits

NEPAL: DON’T EXCEED DIPLOMATIC LIMITS
N.P.Upadhyaya
http://www.telegraphnepal.com/news_det.php?news_id=592

The UML leader Madhav Kumar Nepal out of political frustrations that he has been receiving in series in the country’s politics has begun talking any thing under the sun.

It appears that his frustrations have grown to an undesirable extent in the mean time and thus he has initiated lambasting at the Kathmandu based diplomats.

In Biratnagar today Mr. Nepal took to task the diplomats from the UNMIN, the US and India.

He bluntly said in an oblique manner that the diplomats posted in Kathmandu were not in any way going to conduct the CA polls and thus suggested them not to speculate the absurd.

He wanted to tell the diplomats that the CA polls would be held at any cost even if some diplomats from the UNMIN, the US and India held the view that the possibility for conducting such a poll appeared remote given the adverse security situation in the country as it stood today.

The fact is that Madhav Nepal has just begun toeing the Prachanda’s line of thinking as regards the polls.

Comrade Prachanda got a jolt Friday afternoon when he was told point blank by UNMIN Captain in Nepal, Ian Martin, that he doubted the conduct of the CA polls when things were adverse at the moment in the country.

Toeing the Prachanda line, Madhav Nepal today blasted at the diplomats and suggested them not to exceed their “diplomatic” limits.

The political overtone with which Madhav Nepal thundered at the Diplomats coming as it does close on the heels of Prachanda’s ire against the UNMIN Chief Ian Martin does speak so many things.

Analysts predict that Madhav Nepal must not have said so without consulting Prachanda. The aggressive tones that both the communist leaders have used against the diplomats does remind us all of the famous adage, “birds of same feather flock together” is coming to true.

This also tells that Mr. Nepal sees no future for his party if not supported by the Maoists.

How the Kathmandu based international community takes these aggressive political undiplomatic comments made by two communist veterans will have to be watched.

Analysts say that the conduct of the polls on time as expected by Madhav Nepal, should the said diplomats so desire, might not take place at all.

But then the CA polls must take place. When it takes place is an altogether a different matter.

Cool down Madhav Nepal yourself!

The diplomats mean much to Nepal. Their role you can’t minimize for obvious political reasons, which you perhaps understand better. Take it for granted.
(April 8, 2007)