Is Tulsi Giri now a liability for King Gyanedra? Will the King defend his loyal supporter or dump him? Is Tulsi Giri helping or hurting King Gyanedra?

My take: Giri, as smart a politician as he is, has lost this game to the press and is on his way out. Who else will he take with him is the 2-million-rupee question.


http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=42919 :

Dr Giri yet to settle Yak & Yeti dues


POST REPORT
KATHMANDU, June 14 - Even as Vice Chairman of the Council of Ministers, Dr Tulsi Giri, refuses to take any moral or legal responsibility on the loan-default case, the Post has received reliable information that he hasn't settled his bills at the Yak & Yeti Hotel where he stayed for 25 days about four months ago.
According to hotel sources Dr Giri hasn't cleared a due of Rs 1.19 million that the hotel charged for his food, beverages and telephone bills. "The rooms were, however, provided on complimentary basis," said the source.

Sources said Dr Giri was given three complimentary rooms--two of which were used by himself and his security people from January 31 to Feb 24. One more room was added when Giri's wife, Sahara Giri, joined him after he was appointed vice chairman of the council of ministers. "Dr Giri used suite number 530, which is one of the most expensive rooms in the hotel, and the bill [Rs. 1.19 million] only covers the food, beverage and telephone costs of that one suite" said the source. The rooms were, however, not booked in Giri's name but in the name of Birendra Singh. Singh's identity remains unknown.

General Manager of Yak & Yeti Hotel, Bishowjeet Chakravorty, said he had no comments. When prodded whether he would not acknowledge Dr Giri's stay in the hotel, he said, "I am not saying I won't acknowledge it; I am saying I won't comment on anything related to it."

When contacted at his official residence, Dr Giri was not available for comments. But his wife, Sahara Giri, said she would entertain the inquiry on Giri's behalf. Asked about the due that Giri owes to the hotel, she said, "That's a blatant lie." She refused to comment further.

Meanwhile, Resident Representative of International Monetary Fund for Nepal, Sukhwinder Singh, today said, "We would like to see the committee's report on blacklisting enforced strongly." He was speaking at a Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) function.

Talking to the press, Finance Minister Madhukar SJB Rana, he said, "The bank is yet to clarify whether it was a case of willful default," adding, "It could be a political issue."

The Post on Sunday broke the story of Dr Giri being blacklisted for not repaying a loan amounting to Rs. 17.4 million from Nepal Bank Limited.

Tulsi Giri needs to clear his dues and settle his cases. Its shameful how great minds of nepal are into such dirty deeds!!!
GOD BLESS our K-Town!!!

This time, T. Giri has been successful in achieving his goal to take revenge against royals. Most of the people think that he is in Nepal to help KG but those who have watched him closely claim that he succeeded to take revenge against KG. T. Giri was forced to leave the country after his name was incriminated in ?Galaicha scandal?. Don?t you surprise to see the name of the mother of Panchyaat involved in such a low scale scandal in the era of absolute Panchyaat tantra (this scandal came out publicly due to power tussle between the two rival fractions within the royals and TG was the victim). T. G knew that it was then Prince G who conspire such scandal against him and he was cleaver enough not to fight against Prince G by then. He was looking for the right time to take his revenge and he got it this time around and he made it. There is another former Primer S Thapa who is looking for right opportunity to take revenge against KG who had forced him to spend some years in jail. If you watch carefully TG?s tone and actions, he never seemed to make anything that would help to defend KG Feb1 bloodless coup. He spelt his venom against everyone. He expressed vehemently against major foreign allies (US,UK, India and EU) for their voices against KG Feb 1 move. We are familiar about his every stand and aggression against political parties, constitution of Nepal, professional groups in recent days. I don?t think anyone who actually supports KG move would do such thing and TG is not a stupid person who does not know what makes and what does not make KG?s Feb 1 step successful. This is simply my personal analysis.

Nut

Nut - very interesting analysis. I am not sure if I am with you fully on the retribution piece of this but the fact that Dr Giri is a genius in his own right has not escaped me. I do wonder, though, how King Gyanedra was thinking of using Dr Girir when he brought him on board and how Dr Giri has or has not lived up to the expectations of the King. I suspect the King saw him as someone who could tackle the parties at an intellectual and perhaps even moral level. With accusations like those that he is facing today, Dr Giri's moral standing has probably gone down several nothces which I think weakens his position as King Gyanendra's principal troublemaker for the parties. If he is to go, who is the Palace's next best troublemaker for the parties? Your guess is as good as mine - Surya Bahadur Thapa. I think there will be some change in palace guards soon if the palace is to protect itself from the relentless assault of the parties and Maoists.

I think I have gone way beyond the depth of my political knowledge in trying to analyze this so I am going to stop :)

Peace to you and may the days ahead bring good times for Nepal.

how did giri spend his Rs 2 billion??? Shared with his near and dear ones- aka KG? Funny story ..or perhaps paid his royalty...guess who needs to be put behind bars..