Kathmandu, February 13:

Wonder what “new” Nepal suggests? Well, if you ask Maoist supremo Prachanda, it’s all about the rulers and the ruled changing places.

This was what Prachanda famously defined, emphasised, defended, upheld and underscored in the entire course of a captivating address to a sea of humanity today. Prachanda — who began by briefly encapsulating what transpired after the 1990 movement in parliament — soon came around how “we synthesised the unfolding polity before deciding once and for all to launch a “People’s War.”Much like those who were not at all charitable towards the war, Prachanda conceded that “many among us, too, were not sure how long we would get

to pull on, given the the crackdown.”

Prachanda claimed that the international community had to concede that the Nepal Maoists had given birth to a “new political thought” which ended with the collapse of the old order. He conceded, would not have been possible had there not been collective sacrifices. This is conceding collateral damage which could not be avoided.

He dwelt at length on how the people had shaped the uprising along before it threw up its leader. The revolution was home grown, he emphasised.