राष्ट्रपति भन्दा राजा राम्रो, कम्युनिस्ट भन्दा कांग्रेस बढ़ी कम्युनिस्ट

प्रचंड ले हालसाल भनेका दुई कुरा। राष्ट्रपति भन्दा राजा राम्रो, कम्युनिस्ट भन्दा कांग्रेस बढ़ी कम्युनिस्ट। त्यस्तो हो भने १७,००० मान्छे मर्नु किन जरूरी थियो? कांग्रेस भित्र देउबा लाई चैलेंज गर्दैछन, एमाले भित्र माधव लाई ओली ले चैलेंज गरे, तर माओवादी भित्र प्रचंड लाई कसैले चैलेंज गर्दैन भनिन्छ। झट्ट हेर्दा हो जस्तो पनि लाग्छ। तर माओ पार्टी भित्र को संस्कृति यस्तो कि बरु पार्टी ५० बाट ५ सांसद मा पुग्छ तर पार्टी अध्यक्ष को भन्दा प्रचंड। एक एक गरेर बिभिन्न ले पार्टी छोड़े तर प्रचंड लाई चैलेंज गरेनन। पार्टी भित्र बसेर चैलेंज गर्न सकिने थिएन होला। त्यो स्वस्थ होइन। 

एकीकरण पछि का तीन वर्ष म जबज मानदिन जज (जनता को जनवाद) मात्र मान्छु भन्दै बसेका प्रचंड आज राजा र कांग्रेस मानने अवस्था मा पुगे। के भयो त्यस्तो? 

The chairman has an identity crisis Pushpa Kamal Dahal is torn between his two selves: an insidious, crafty Prachanda who will go on the offensive to get what he wants, and a gentle, pragmatic Pushpa Kamal who can placate opposing factions and win over the media.  ......... Pushpa Kamal Dahal is a man divided. .......  “I have no desire to become prime minister any time soon,” he said. ....... When he is Pushpa Kamal, meaning lotus flower, he is charming, effusive and pragmatic, like he was last week at the conclave. When he is Prachanda, or the fierce one, he is seen as devious, insidious and crafty ......... In the 14 years since the Maoist insurgency that he led as supreme commander came to an end, Pushpa Kamal has increasingly attempted to shed Prachanda. But he remains torn between becoming the consummate politician and remaining the quintessential commander. No one knows more about this identity crisis than Dahal himself, who has admitted to being conflicted about who he really is. “I feel different each time I am called by a different name,” he said in July last year at a cultural programme. “When people call me Prachanda, I feel like I represent the entire country. I take pride in fighting for identity, equality, the rights of indigenous and underprivileged people and backward communities, the people and social justice. But when I am called Pushpa Kamal Dahal, I feel like I represent just one community—something which is limited and confined to a small conservative circle.”    ......... Dahal is a man of contradiction; both Prachanda and Pushpa Kamal reside within him. He appears to switch at will, like Jekyll and Hyde, transforming into Prachanda when he needs to make a fiery speech or play political chess and back into Pushpa Kamal when he needs to placate opposing factions and win over the media. ......... And this is not a recent phenomenon. Ever since he emerged from the underground in 2006, Dahal has always been torn.    ......... In 2000, four years after the conflict officially began, Prachanda was known only by a drawing of a stern-faced mustachioed man, clad in revolutionary fatigues, circulated in various propaganda pamphlets. Many doubted his very existence. In 2001, the Nepal Army produced a grainy photo of a bearded man holding a walking stick, his eyes seemingly closed in concentration.  ........ It was only in 2006, after the Maoists had temporarily agreed to suspend their insurgency and join with the mainstream political parties that the Nepali people got their first real glimpse of the man known only as Prachanda. Clad in an ash grey safari suit, with his salt-and-pepper hair gelled and swept back and a well-cared Stalin moustache, Prachanda appeared. ........ In the days to follow, Prachanda would sweep the political establishment, in both Nepal and India, off their feet. He was charismatic and had the air of a revolutionary. Diplomats flocked to meet the man who had waged a 10-year insurgency against the state’s much superior and well-equipped security forces, including the Nepal Army, with a bunch of untrained peasants and ancient weapons seized from feudal landowners.   .........  Baidya, who broke with Dahal in 2012, has harsh words for Dahal. “It’s power he has been running after all this time. He changes his tone and does not hesitate to renounce ideology,” he said. “He utilises every opportunity to be in a position of power.” ..... As a rebel leader and immediately after, Dahal often criticised India as an imperialist force, but when he visited New Delhi, he told leaders that India was a second home for him, as he spent eight out of 10 years hiding out in their country. ........  Dahal eventually stepped back and took back his criticism, cozying up to India when it suited him. He’s done the same thing with political parties in Nepal, alternating between allying with the Congress and the UML. ...... The Congress and Maoists had talked about a larger electoral alliance for the 2017 parliamentary elections. But true to form, Dahal broke the alliance and joined with the UML in an electoral alliance, which eventually led to a party merger. ......... In the run-up to the 2017 elections, Dahal was hemmed in from all sides. Fearing irrelevancy, Dahal tied up with the CPN-UML, led by KP Sharma Oli, in an electoral alliance. The alliance would lead to a formal union of the two parties, forming one of the biggest communist parties in the region. ......... The union helped ensure Dahal’s continued relevance in national politics but it also relegated him to second place in the party, something that he was never used to. On paper, Oli and Dahal were co-chairs but Oli came out as the supreme leader, running the party almost unilaterally. ......... Dahal is very good at winning over those he has slighted, as was evident in the Venezuela episode. A little over a month after the controversy, Dahal flew to the US for his wife’s treatment, with no consternation whatsoever from the US, the same country that had designated Dahal’s Maoists a “terrorist group” at the height of the conflict. ........ But just when everyone had thought that Pushpa Kamal had largely buried Prachanda, the master manipulator made a comeback.  ...... Dahal might appear to have transitioned almost completely to Pushpa Kamal, but an inkling of Prachanda remains within, only to come out when no one is really expecting it.