"Learning a lesson from the political ups and downs of the last seven years, Mohan Baidyaji has now come up with a proposal. We have taken it positively for lasting peace, stability and democracy,” Thapa said at an interaction organized by Reporters Club in Kathmandu on Wednesday. [break]
Claiming that Nepal´s national unity and integrity was attacked most during the last seven years, Thapa said that his party is ready to join hands with Baidya-led CPN-Maoist to safeguard the country´s national sovereignty. “All the nationalist forces need to stand together,” he said, adding, “Nepal is in need of its own unique political system where monarchy, Maoists and all other political forces can work together.”
He also disclosed that leaders from his party and Maoists were in regular touch with regard to setting the future political course.
"The concept of cooperation and collaboration is yet to take a concrete shape. It needs additional explanation. It needs a long exercise before we finalize it,” he explained. RPP-N is the only political party that officially lobbies for reinstatement of constitutional monarchy in the country.
CPN-Maoist Chief Mohan Baidya´s public announcement to ally with former royals has given a new twist to the political course in the last couple of days. CPN-Maoist, a breakaway faction of the UCPN (Maoist) has been leading an alliance of fringe political parties that have announced to boycott polls to be conducted by the present government.
Thapa, however, claimed that Baidya´s proposal was not new. According to him, it was UCPN (Maoist) leader Baburam Bhattarai who had consistently sought alliance with the erstwhile King Gyanendra Shah during the time when the Maoists were underground and waging war against the army and other state agencies.
"During our hours-long secret discussions in Nepalgunj, Baburamji consistently insisted on forging an alliance between the king and the Maoists. He was ready to give continuity to monarchy as a ceremonial institution if the king was ready to collaborate with the Maoists,” said Thapa.
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