Reactions to former king’s comment monarchy isn’t yet dead

By Bhola B Rana

Kathmandu, 25 March: Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal said Thursday former King Gyanendra was ‘daydreaming’ by saying Wednesday monarchy wasn’t dead in Nepal.
TMLP Chairman Mahanta Thakur said the ousted king was ‘dreaming”.
Maoists came out with the harshest reaction.
Vice-chairman Narayan Kazi Shrestha said the former king’s comment was proof of a counterrevolutionary movement in Nepal after the declaration of a republic which was announced by an unelected and self-appointed parliament.
He asked government to evict Gyanendra from Nagarjung resort provided by the government even threatening ‘people’s action’ such comments weren’t stopped.
RPP Nepal has collected two million signatures or a demand by 10 percent voters to put a republic, Hindu state and federalism to vote.
In Switzerland a demand by 200,000 persons is enough to put an issue to vote—and a neutral Switzerland that doesn’t take UN membership fearingit will loose its neutrality even put a dog issue to vote.
But in Nepal that European takes active interest and is involved in multi-party politics and change in the Himalayan state that was a monarchy.
Maoists and other parties never accepted either the panchayat constitution or the 1990 constitution and opposed it.
Maoists even launched a 10-year people’s war and have so far gotten away with it.
But Maoists want to throttle fundamental rights and democracy by smashing demands for a republic and even the fundamental right to disagree,
Maoists claim demands for restoration of constitutional monarchy
And multi-party democracy are regressive when communism has been outvoted everywhere, except Cuba, China and Vietnam as regressive.
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