There was prime minister Girija Prasad Koirala, who has been repeatedly unsuccessful in conducting elections, telling the interim parliament: "We couldn't reach an agreement but we are still united." You can fool some of the people some of the time, prime minister, but you can't fool all the people all the time. The Nepali people and the international community aren't fools, they understand what you are up to.

To be fair, it's not just Koirala who is at fault here. Pushpa Kamal Dahal is also equally responsible. As long as we can't have the constituent assembly elections there won't be a loktantrik republic in Nepal. But the seven parties are entangled in their own petty interests and pushing the country towards darkness.

The leaders probably think they are everything here. They are wrong, the people are everything, and they want elections and a loktantrik republic. But the parties are now an obstacle to this and the people can't digest it. What is Koirala up to with his "united in our disunity" speech? Is he trying to throw the Maoists into the dustbin of history?