Kathmandu, September 23
Nepali Congress General Secretary Shashanka Koirala says his party will elect the next leadership from within the Koirala family. The party is due to elect the new leadership from the 19th general convention after two and half years.
Three leaders from the family are influential in the party’s Central Working Committee now. They are the party founder BP Koirala’s youngest son Shashanka, and his two cousins Shekhar and Sujata.
“We will agree to field one among myself, Shekhar brother and Sujata for the president,” the leader told his cadres at a function in Butwal of Rupandehi district on Sunday morning, adding the Koirala family’s candidate would win the leadership race thanks of the cadres’ love and wishes.
Koirala claimed he learned from his recent visits to various parts of the country that most of the party cadres wished that the family would regain the leadership.
In another context, Koirala said the party’s mahasamiti meeting scheduled to be held after two months would amend the party’s new statute which would also define the party’s vision for next 30 years.
He demanded that the party president’s rights be decentralised.
“The party cannot afford disputes. We need to move ahead with new strategies,” Koirala said, “I think the president’s rights should be centralised. The lower levels including provincial and local committees should be made more powerful.”
Koirala was hopeful that the party would become the biggest party in the upcoming general elections.
