this is the from another article about Nepal Crisi from CNN.
Loyalists uncertain
"The root cause of the present situation is the king's intransigence. By refusing to hold a dialogue with the political parties and pushing ahead with these sham elections, the king has plunged the country into a crisis," said Ram Sharan Mahat, a senior leader of the Nepali Congress, the country's main political party, which ruled for 14 years before the king's takeover.
The king's actions, such as the clampdown on political activity and resorting to military offensives to deal with the Maoists, have even left many of his loyalists uncertain.
"The conflict cannot be won by mere military means," said Pashupati Shamsher J. B. Rana, once a royal confidant and head of the pro-royalist Rashtriya Prajatantra Party, or National Democratic Party.
"The ultimate solution is to bring the insurgents into the mainstream through a dialogue, in which ... the king and the parties engage jointly."
That is easier said than done.
The political parties insist the king must first restore the elected parliament and return to his position as constitutional monarch.
"We now have a single theme -- the king should go back to his constitutional role," says Surya Bahadur Thapa, a former prime minister and senior Nepali Congress leader. Thapa says the king pushed the political parties into forging an alliance with the Maoist rebels.
"It was when the parties saw that the king would not heed them that they joined hands with the Maoists to jointly put pressure on the king," he said.
Notice the Surya Bahadur Thapa written in the text.
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