On/Off the Record
By P.R. Pradhan
Saurav, a political analyst, in a television interview, remarked that the Maoist leaders have no love for the nation and they are not committed to building the nation, instead, they are destroying the country. A journalist turned political leader, Rabindra Mishra, had a tea meeting with Maoist supremo Pushpakamal Dahal last week. Mishra, after the meeting, revealed that Dahal was not against the institution of monarchy and he had never thought about the removal of the institution. Nevertheless, Dahal’s private secretariat declined the revelation by Mishra during the tea meeting. Mishra thinks that the present constitution is based on the Prachanda path, w