It takes a lot of strategic planning to overthrow an autocratic regime rife with irregularities, corruption and lack of vision for any sort of long term planning and prosperity of a nation. And People's Army, the guerrila forces in Nepal known as Maoists (locally, Maobadis) organized disgruntled youths and launched a full fledged armed rebellion against the state's apathy towards the poor and marginalized minorities abundant in hilly and mountainous regions of Nepal. Now that the autocratic monarchial regime has been uprooted, Maoists have come under intense criticism from other parties and the ordinary population as a whole for adopting a violent method and killing its opponents mercilessly during its revolution. It has been condemned for not giving up its method yet and is accused of torture and physical abuse.
But, there's a larger picture to see. The state had to be restructured. The existing monarchical system favored the rich and the powerful. Poor would continue to be marginalized and would never be given a fair chance to battle its way off this 'treadmill of poverty'. The greater role of Maoists is not yet over. In places of scores of bridges that they burnt and hundreds of banks that they looted, they need to establish newer ones and restructure the state so that the system is more equitable, and thus gives a fair chance to everyone to evade this continued pauperization.
It is not easy to bring a revolution on the scale that Maoists did. They were full of energy. Now, it is time to channel that energy properly so that it can be used in the greater task of nation-building and prosperity based on newer models such as integrating national economy with international trade and embracing the globalization model in favor of older national development project models. Situated amid two neighbors whose economy are growing at an amazing rate can be strategically used to benefit the nation. If you were to look back, history is evident that manufacturing jobs keep moving towards a source where cheaper labor is available. It moved from the United States to Japan, then to Korea, Taiwan, Hongkong and also to Mexico. As labor in China proved to be cheaper than in Mexico or other four Asian Tigers(Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Hongkong), jobs moved to China. As China will prosper and wages will go up, jobs might then go to Vietnam or Indonesia or other nations, part of which has already onset. If Nepal can prove to be politically stable then with its abundance of cheap labor, it can be a lucrative site for Foreign Direct Investment.
Quarreling among the political parties and blaming Maoists for what they did is simply not the solution, it is not the right way ahead to the prosperity of this Himalayan Nation. We have a common goal-prosperity of our nation and happiness among our countrymen and this is attainable only when we start seeing Maoists as positive force to move our nation forward.
