The Capital has been abuzz with not so very significant happenings for the last few days. The sudden cancellation of the high profile foreign trip of the prime minister has only added to his discomfitures as it has given rise to various adverse comments by his critics. To hide his chagrin the prime minister made an untimely address to the nation promising vacant benefits to the people. Nearly six months in office the prime minister is still to win the trust and confidence of the people in general. Except the Maoists cadres and leaders, very few of the twenty five million Nepalis have developed any regard for him. He too is behaving as the prime minister of the Maoists only. His failure to live up to his commitment of resorting the looted properties to their rightful owners and curbing the parallel government like behavior of his party men has not contributed to add any height to his ordinary stature. And the most recent statement by a very senior Indian statesman that it is because of them the Maoists are leading the government in Nepal at the moment has not added an inch to their small image. Their deliberate unwillingness to adapt their behavior to democratic practices has exposed their inborn intention of imposing the totalitarian regime on the people which is totally against the genius of the country and cannot be acceptable to the overwhelming masses. The behavior of his junior leaders and ordinary party men and their indiscreet outbursts clearly reflect their indisciplined behavior. The most uncalled for stance of his defense minister antagonizing the Nepali army by pressurizing them to carryout his anti national orders is posing threat to his weak coalition government. Because Nepali Army cannot be brow beaten to give in to orders that are flagrantly against the interests of the country. Prime minister Prachanda must discipline his wayward minister if he wants to lengthen the life of his government. This scribe is reminded of a similar situation in the government of the great Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru in the early years of the nineteen-fifties when a left oriented minister took up similar fight with senior Indian army personnel. To avoid any harm to the security of the nation, Nehru transferred the minister to some other position. Since Nepali army also cannot jeopardize the security of the nation, prime minister Prachanda must tame his minister going to the extreme of even dismissing him. No patriotic Nepali would like that Nepali Army should be politicized. We would even exhort our friendly neighbor to use its good offices with its once protégés and make them see reason, at all costs, if necessary even reminding them that their government is still quite fragile.