Sunday 22 April 2007

Nepali politics

A quick change of subject to give you and me a break from Darjeeling.

 

Last week the inevitable happened and the Government announced that Constituent Assembly elections will not take place on 20 June. Probably because by now most people had worked this out for themselves, there was little fuss. The Maoists were very relaxed about it and are now focussing on Plan B (which was probably their Plan A all along) – to scrap the monarchy and declare a republic before any elections. Who knows what happens now but at least it gives more time for elections to be planned properly (not to say that they will be and no matter how well planned they are, some groups are going to be unhappy).

 

Keep tuned (might be a day or 2) for the next instalment of the Darjeeling trip – the Toy Train!

 

Cheers

Roshan

No comments: