Chairman Pashupati Shumsere Rana of Rastriya Prajatantra Party has come to the rescue of erstwhile King Gyanendra who was being criticized lately for having urged the political parties to abide by some sort of elusive agreement without tangible proof and witness thereof, that he claims to have reached with Nepal’s political parties.

Rana said this while addressing a press meet in Tulsipur of Dang District, Friday.

“I am not formally abreast whether there exists certain agreement, but as repeatedly claimed by the erstwhile King I am certain they must have reached a deal with him.”

He also claimed that the then agitating political parties had reached the agreement in the presence of Indian leader Dr. Karan Singh.

Singh- a member of India’s Rajya Sabha is a senior member of the Indian National Congress Party and has served party President Sonia Gandhi as her international relations advisor.

Both Rana and Nepal’s former King Shah share some familial ties with Dr. Singh.

To recall, April 2006, Dr. Singh was sent to Kathmandu as the special emissary of Indian Prime Minister Man Mohan Singh to mend relations between Nepal’s agitating political parties and King Gyanendra.

After meeting Singh, hard pressed Shah made a public announcement to restore the democratic order which was out rightly rejected by the Nepali parties and also by the then Indian foreign secretary ad nauseating Shyam Saran thus by pressurizing the King to take the unconstitutional step of resurrecting the dead parliament.

The new Prime Minister GP Koirala was sworn in by the then King.

The same parliament later sharply curtailed the right of the former King, declared the country secular and decided to hold constituent assembly election. The nation is paying the price.

Rana addressing the press meet further says, “There are some leaders in the parties today who accept that they had reached soma agreement with the King.”

“Why cannot the party top leaders disclose what had actually transpired between them and the King then,” he opined.

Pashupati Rana and King Gyanendra are childhood friends. And such friendship count at times.

@telegraph