DIGG dei monarchici

By all indications, it seems that India is fastly getting frustrated with the new dispensation in Kathmandu. The UPA government with the nudges from the Left had hoped that the Maoists would come to the mainstream and dance to its tunes which is why from 2002 onwards there is ample evidence that India's intelligence agencies were actively trying to bring Koirala and the Maoists together. Shyam Saran who had close contacts with King Gyanendra resided in Kathmandu with a single purpose:- somehow pressure the King to sideline the parties so that he would naturally fall into the trap. Surya Bahadur Thapa was made Prime Minister precisely because of Saran's lobbying in 2003 despite of Madhav Nepal's natural contestation. Thapa became more loyal to Delhi than to the palace and he agreed to grant the Indian Embassy which no other foreign embassy had got from the Nepal government. It could now select, fund, implement 'development works' all along the Tarai belt without taking permissions from the National Planning Commission or the Finance Ministry. No one knows how much money went to actually building schools and hospitals and how much was used for other sinister activities but this certainly provided the main basis for the Tarai agitation three years later. Saran's successor Shiv Shankar Mukherjee, toed Saran's line in ditto and despite of the King's repeated information to him that he was about to do what he did on Feb. 1st 2005; Mukherjee did not object to it during his audiences with the King because he too wanted the King to fall into the trap. The rest is history.