What really happened on jestha 19, part VI

This is turning into an anthology more than I thought. The idea is to come up with 20-30 most ridiculous ideas and write mock research essays. They need to be more fleshed out than what I did for the last one, but that's going to come as things evolve. I'm just having fun here, nothing to see. Continued from here.

 ...ohhh sir I see I see it's like that, I didn't know sir I'm just a simple man, and I thought maybe...since...I have connections too in Kathmandu few people. So this son of my uncle, he went to the same school as Dipendra, and he told us stories about when he was younger. Many years ago, before the scandal happened, now if you go ask him he'll pretend he didn't even hear you, but back then he told us stories....

I understand, you're a man of great reach in Kathmandu. But you've been invited here because of  the help you might be able to provide the government with the investigation, not because of you know so-and-so. We have been under strict instructions not to follow any leads, because this is a criminal investigation and we don't want to corrupt it. You were talking about your contact's relationship with Dipendra in school.

Yes yes sir, I didn't -- I didn't -- not not trying to influence, it is related to the story sir I was telling you the story it's all related. So as I was saying, he is a very clever man and in the past, before that happened in the palace, he used to tell us stories, about what plans Dipendra had for the country. And I thought that during all this time, it can't have been the girl, it must have been something much bigger that he couldn't come out to the public about. That's what I was trying to tell you about.

Okay, yes go ahead. What did he tell his school friends when he was younger.

I have heard this from my contact but many others are talking about it too, even then they were saying things like ohh he is going to do this, he is going to this when he becomes the King. According to what my fellow said, the villager brother, Dipendra didn't want to be the King. He was thankful to have been born in the royal family but he thought it was not suitable for a country like Nepal. He is said to have told his friends that he wanted to become the first President of Nepal, and then hand over the power to a commoner after holding peaceful elections. Even when he was a schoolboy they said, he didn't want to bear the weight of the crown on his head. And you know the young boys, they tease each other for even small things, and when they did instead of getting mad or something he would say no that won't happen when I'm the King because I'll declare it a republic, and they'll make me the first President, after that they'll just let me go, and as a commoner I'll be just like you, no helping you there.

So...so I heard that there was constant friction between his father and mother and him in that regards. Because you know the old King, he was beloved but but he didn't want the monarchy to end, he wanted very much for the Shah dynasty to continue in the country. The King apparently threatened to take the Crown Prince out of succession and make his brother the future King, the brothers are said to be on good terms generally but because of this it created some sort of bad blood. Now the only people inside the family who didn't have any opinion one way or another was Gyanendra and his family, because they didn't want to be in power since they weren't like, nobody liked them. They knew about that of course. And with...you know...Paras...and his problems, it wouldn't work, they knew one way or another Paras would never become the King even if worst came to worst. So they weren't openly supportive of Dipendra but when there was fight between the Crown Prince and the King, he used to go over to Nirmal Niwas and live with his uncle and his family.

And and and another thing sir. This story is known to everybody. You know about the old story about how the Shah Kings aren't allowed to go to Budhanilkantha because of the curse, which is why the Malla King someone made a copy of it in Rani Pokhari. When Dipendra was studying in the school, he went to the temple many times they said, he didn't care about not becoming the King because it was not a part of his plan. Some even say the death and the entire incident happened because of the curse...the curse was not just about somebody not becoming a King but the destruction of their familial line, by going to the temple, he brought upon the death and destruction of his family.

I see, so you're suggesting that the motive for Prince Dipendra wasn't the issue of marriage as was claimed in the original report, but political ambitions?

That is right. Some say the issue was growing bigger and bigger by the day, because of you know the maoists they were growing stronger, and the palace had some kind of relationship with them. Dipendra didn't want to be the King on one hand while fighting against his own government through the help of the guerilla fighters. He wanted to bring them to the table, hand over the power, and just retire. He was not a good man sir, many many bad habits, but he was good at heart. So the issue became of great importance in that party, and due to his festering anger from many years, and the combination of drugs, he saw no good outcome for himself and the country. He was under the influence of the drugs, but in his mind he was doing the right thing, for himself and the country. By removing the King and the entire royal family, he would speed up the country going towards republicanism, even if that meant he wouldn't be the first president, or be around to see it even.

Good good, we've gotten the gist of your story. Do you have any solid evidence of any of these incidents and actions?

Sir it's all the sayings of people who went to school with him, and whatever was printed in newspapers and magazines that time. I do not know of too many other places where this was said, I don't know much.

Thank you, thank you for your help. We'll reach out to the relevant sources, and send out the token of thanks for you and the family.