Time for movement is passe. Now is revolution time. There is no room left for dialogue, I think. The idea now has to be to get hundreds of thousands of people out into the streets across the country over a period of days to culminate in a unilateral declaration of the establishment of a revolutionary parliament.
That revolutionary parliament would be the 1999 House, but not bound by the 1990 constitution, and not lead by Taranath Ranabhat. It would declare the formation of a seven party government.
We could do it at the end of the April 6-9 protests, or we could give a second or a third try. The decision is for the seven party alliance to take.
I guess there would be one last chance for dialogue. If the king were to release all political prisoners and then come around to agreeing to a roadmap that would lead to a constituent assembly, then talks could happen. But that depends on the king making sense. He has not made sense since he ascended to the throne. What makes you think he will make an about turn now?
So to have a roadmap that depends on the king making sense is counterproductive. Leave that option open, but plan A should be to cut a roadmap that does not depend on the king at all.
April 6 would launch the movement, curfew or not. Disobey the curfew. Throng into the streets. (यो सडक ितम्र्ो हो) By April 9 the tsunami of people should have completely overtaken the streets. There should be people as far as the eyes can see. All indications are that the parties have learned their lessons from the January 20 clampdown.
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Likely the Nepali new year will see a new Nepali government of the democrats. If for some reason April 9 does not see the climax we expect, there has to be a plan B. That would be to learn lessons from the latest clampdown, and better organize the next round, to be held within 10 days, or something like that.
(1) Declare A Revolutionary Parliament
(2) Form A Seven Party Government
(3) Declare An Interim Constitution, Abolish The Monarchy, Declare The Interim President the Commander In Chief of the Army, renamed the Nepal Army with immediate effect. Send people like Kamal Thapa and Tulsi Giri to jail.
(4) Purge the army of its top brass and all its unsavory elements. Promote officers from the lower ranks with sound democratic credentials.
(5) Hold formal peace talks with the Maoists.
(6) Partially or fully integrate both armies, or dismantle both.
(7) Hold elections to a Constituent Assembly.
We have to have a concrete roadmap that looks something like this.
This roadmap I have outlined is one that assumes the king is going to keep being nonsensical. But he has the option to make sense, and in that case the 12 point agreement is very clear as to what to do. The monarchy's fate then is not decided by the revolution but by the constituent assembly. The army's restructuring also gets postponed.
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My point being we can not have only one roadmap regardless if the fascists in power clamp down hard or not. There has to be tit for tat if they continue with their pig-headedness.
There is this great sense of expectation. This regime should not be allowed a January 20 repeat. That is one certainty. Otherwise a revolution is a dynamic organism, it is hard to plan every detail. You have to play it by the ear, like jazz music.
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