The tremors of the UML and the Maoists Center’s grand unification has begun to shock a section of the political spectrum.
Chances are high that such jolts in series were in the pipeline hopefully that may begin surfacing in the days to come from other political quarters as well.
While the “democratic” society inside Nepal has already begun feeling the brunt which may in all likelihood shift its approach to the nearby countries more so in the South Asian nations.
The news of the excitement with abundant annoyance is yet to come from across the Nepali borders. But what is for sure is that it shall come as the sudden unification of the two communist parties of Nepal has already become a hot topic of the region and beyond.
The first party in Nepal to get traumatized apparently is the RPP-Nepal led by Chairman Kamal Thapa.
His dictatorial nature of steering the party, as much as we could understand from the rumors that have spread inside Nepal, has done more harm than good to the scattered splinters of the RPP led respectively by Pasupati S Rana and Dr. Prakash Chandra Lohani.
Mr. Rana’s RPP is still kicking and alive.
When Nepal had a monarchy in place, the RPP as such was one and Mr.
Rana and Dr. Lohani were housed in the same party.
However, with the Monarchy mercilessly ousted by the 12 point India manufactured scheme, the RPP not only split but its fragments were seen in the political crowd momentarily only to be vanished in the ethereal medium.
The RPP since 1990 Change may have seen several splits and unification as well but only to be broken again and again. Still the talks for unity continues.
Kamal Thapa has become the first political persona who while inaugurating the party’s Central Council in Birganj, a town close to the Indian border in the South, appealed his former party colleagues Mr. Rana and Dr. Lohani to take the needed initiatives so that various RPP splinters could forge unity once again for all time to come.
“I urge my former colleagues to honor my fresh appeal for party’s unification in order to save democracy”, said Thapa while talking to his party’s cadres.
Elaborating his opinion, Thapa bluntly told his cadres that in the “garb of constitution and democracy chances were high that the nation may have to face some sort of authoritarianism in the days ahead”.
Thapa during the course of his speech urged his former party colleagues that he will even handover the party’s present Chairmanship to any one for the sake of party unity and also because “the nation now demands the very presence of nationalist forces”.
Surprisingly Kamal Thapa made this conciliatory note a day after Nepal PM Oli tentatively warned the former Nepal sovereign, King Gyanendra not to make a sort of drama by visiting various temples but instead join the Republican mainstream-politics.
How P Rana and Dr. Lohani shall react to Thapa’s modest appeal will have to be watched.
High placed sources claim that Kamal Thapa made this appeal for unity among the RPP splinters when he was told, a guess work only, to take initiatives for unification among the RPP parties by the former King of Nepal.
Understandably, the RPP’s unification in many more ways than one may shield the former monarch from threats (verbal ones) such as the one that has just emanated from PM Oli targeting the former Monarch.
The Nepali Congress may also speak on the same lines as that of Mr. Thapa hopefully for some understandable reasons.
The NC is a lost case, claim observers in the given scheme of today’s politics that has evolved after the unification of the two communists.