- He used all his energy to damage political carrier of KP Bhattarai in early nineties.
- He always had bitter relation with the leader like Ganesh Man.
- Congress Party splitted into two group in his leadership
- He was doing alright last two three or so after Gynendra kicked his butt badly, now again he is trying to play dirty politics sidelining Maoist and voilating the understanding with them.

I am convienced nature and atitude of a person does not change overnight. If he continues to work this way it will only help Maoist to get people's support and damage culture of politics of understanding in Nepal.

girija is not giving in to all maoist demands which i think i a good approach. maoists are not in the government yet, so i don't see how can they have any opinion about political apointees. i can see other parties within the government but maoist are out of the central government although, i must say they run a parallel government outside the capital. girija's socialist party is a liberal alternative to the communists and hardliners like maoists.
yeah girija has done a lot of politics and probably has taken an ill advice or two.. this time around, for someone who has devoted his life to politics. he probably wants to get it right this time and go out with a bang. time will only tell...forget girija, but give this peace process a chance.

live-wire wrote:
> girija's socialist party is a liberal alternative to
>the communists and hardliners like maoists.

I am of the opinion that NC and the Left of Nepal got mistaken identities. Below is an excerpt from one of my postings to Nepal Democracy Forum (nepaldemocracy google group) some two months ago.

[The members of the group can access the full posting here:
http://groups.google.com/group/nepaldemocracy/msg/057d14b8db737dbd?hl=en ]

For others, here is an excerpt:

1) The Left of Nepal was and is MORE pro-democracy and MORE democratic
than NC. NC always was and still is for sharing the power with the
King. The Left was for total power to the people. Nothing more, nothing
less.

2) The Left in Nepal has never planned to actually establish a
totalitarian regime (that is, with NC banned) in Nepal. Nowhere and
nowhen have they envision a regime with bourgeois democratic parties
banned. Their idea of communism is limited to their flag, trademark and
rhetoric here and there. It isn't in their program planned to
implement. Look at it this way. Communism/Marxism to them is what
evangelical Christianity is to George Bush. The reasoning/likelihood of
Nepali Left trying to establish a communist state in Nepal is lesser
than President Bush trying to establish a 'kingdom of God' in the USA.
Marxism as a science to Nepali Left is as reliable as 'In God We Trust'
of the American establishment.

The irony of political identity in Nepal is that NC got a face of
democracy but a heart of submission to the monarchy and the Left got a
face of a communist but a heart of total democracy.

That reminds me a short moral story by Khalil Gibran I had read a long
time ago (I am not sure about the accuracy).

The story was that one day the 'beauty' and the 'ugliness' went to take
a bath in a river together. The 'ugliness' came out of the river while
the 'beauty' was still enjoying the bath and went away putting on the
dress of the 'beauty'. When the 'beauty' came out of the river and did
not find her dress, she put on what was left there- the dress of
'ugliness'. Since then they are roaming on the earth in the same dress.

There isn't a bath-taking event for analogy, however, NC and the Left
in Nepal have ironical identities.

This probably is not going to last long. Recent history is bringing
everybody closer to the truth. It's another fact that some diaspora
elites still might choose to keep their anti-Left disposition and
rhetoric which I would call "acting more American than the Americans",
for it's perceived adaptive value in the US soil.


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so ne23pe, are u saying leftist parties are more democratic than NC? tara leftist parties haru dherai chan. eg, UML and maoists to name two. i don't really agree with the article that NC are less democratic and they are sharing power with the king. as far as i am concerned, any party that supresses the freedom of expressing ideas or beliefs, be it political or religious, is less "democratic." Many left parties these days are censoring those who support the king. yo ta democratic bhayenani. ideal democracy ma sabai idea lai field ma aaune mouka hunu paryo, be it ideas of collectivity or monarchy. then let the people decide. king got thrown out because he was seen to be too autocratic supressing other people and essentially their ideas. aaba now, if we end up using unfair means to supress other ideas that we don't agree and call our system democratic, tyo ali hypocritical bhayo. haina ra?

I agree 100% with you, Live_wire.

Lime wire ...this is the tragedy of Nation ...People wants loktantra and democracy , freedom of expression ..and what not ...but most of the people really don't believe in it or want it.

Carrying a flag and cursing another one is easy to do ...but practicing true democracy is hard ...nepalese are not ready for one and they don't deserve a democracy .BIggest reason is they don't want it ...U SHOULD WANT IT!WANT IT REAL BAD!!

There you go.... exactly that's what I think.

Interesting, loktantra is not even eanted by so called leaders, Prachanda, Baburam, Girija, Madhav, and so on.... mero goru ko barhai takka type of these faggots.