TGW - Nepal’s Ex-Monarch Gyanendra Shah who all of a sudden has been hitting the media headlines in Nepal has decided finally to move out of the Nagarjun Palace.
The Nagarjun Palace is situated some eight kilometers North-West of Kathmandu.
The Janaastha Weekly dated September 10, 2008 reports that ex-King will move to his original residence Nirmal Niwas, which he decided to do so after the formation of the Maoists’ led government.
The newly formed Maoists’ led government had recently said that the Nagarjun Palace was given to the ex-monarch on a temporary basis.
“Currently the Nirmal Nivas is undergoing renovations” adds Janaaastha.
The ex-King who almost three weeks back met with the Indian ambassador to Nepal Rakesh Sood and later reportedly met with the Prime Minister of Nepal Pushpa Kamal Dahal is on high demand from the Nepali Congress quarters as well.
A frustrated ex-Prime Minister Koirala who has concluded that he was cheated by the Maoists leadership time and again and that is why he has been, say sources, is in close contact with the former King.
Koirala concludes that the ex-king was still a force and could be counted to challenge the Maoists totalitarian attitude.
Interestingly, only a week back say media reports PM Dahal had a secret meeting with the ex-Monarch, where in the two decided to work in tandem to form a patriotic front.
PM Dahal perhaps also needs the ex-king’s substantial support to face the Koirala challenge.
Analysts remain puzzled as to how come so soon a defunct monarch would be a chum of both the liberals and the radicals?
The side King Gyanendra prefers to take will definitely be weightier than the other, if he really is a formidable force to reckon with?
However, staunch royalist suggest the King not to get carried away by the two opposing ideologies because it were the adherents of these two philosophies which dismantled the two hundred forty yeas long history of Nepali monarchy.
2008-09-10 10:23:45
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