Former Vice Chairman of Maoist, former Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai has been elected as the Chairman of Nepal Samajwadi Party (New Shakti). He has been saying that a new generation should be brought into the leadership of the party.

Naya Shakti's student leader Netra Chapagai contested against Bhattarai, but it turned out to be a 'pretend' contest. This time too he was not ready to hand over the leadership to the younger generation. From the first convention of the party, he was elected as the president through the 'appearance' competition. This showed a contradiction between what he said and what he did. He had said during the Congress Bandshatra that he was running for the presidency due to great pressure within the party.

In 2072, he abandoned the Maoist party of 'Hundakhanda' and started a campaign to build a new political power. Amidst many ups and downs, he has taken the oath to advance the campaign of building an alternative political power by organizing the party's convention, and he has come to the main leadership from the first convention of the party.

Bhattarai got 761 votes and Chapagai got 73 votes in the election contest. Sonamsingh Syangtan has won the post of General Secretary. Bhattarai's daughter Manushi Yami Bhattarai, Durga Sob, Ishwari Rizal, Tek Bahadur Bathamagar, Umesh Shah have been selected as vice presidents. Ishwari Prasad Rizal has also been elected unopposed as the treasurer. Twenty-two people, including office bearers, were elected unopposed, while elections were held for the rest of the posts.

There is a provision in the constitution of the new power to nominate only 9 out of 99 members of the Central Committee.

Bhattarai, who led the ten-year armed war, left the Maoists soon after the constitution was promulgated in 2072. He started a new political power campaign by concluding that the Communist Party could not achieve rapid economic and social development. But after his alternative politics failed to take off, his close leader Devendra Paudel returned to the Maoists, while Mahindra Rai Yadav and Ganganarayan Shrestha formed the Nepal Samajwadi Party last year.

When Congress, UML and Maoists were in the tussle for power, Bhattarai launched a new political power campaign but could not gain momentum because he could not explain it to the common people. Analysts have said that since the 2079 general election, other alternative powers have emerged, it is difficult to create a new power as Bhattarai thought.

Professor of Political Science Krishna Pokharel mentioned that the vehicle of alternative political power has advanced a lot and said that it is difficult for Bhattarai to meet it. Looking at the situation now, it seems that the new power bus has left. A new generation has entered politics. The place he said has been occupied," he said. "The height should have been taken at the beginning of the new power. When did Baburamji join the Madhesh-centric party, he returned to the Maoists and felt that something could be done. Now Yuva Shakti has occupied the place of alternative political power.''

On January 10, 2072, he gathered people from various fields including political, economic, social, administrative, security, artistic, etc., and started the 'New Power Campaign'. On May 30, 2073, he gathered at the Dasharath Stadium in Kathmandu and established the 'New Shakti Nepal' party. But the alternative political power did not advance as expected. Sometimes he cooperated and united with the Maoist and sometimes the Madhesh-centric party, but his new power building could not take a particular shape.

Huthuti, who created an alternative political force, is not dead yet. Bhattarai has claimed that alternative politics is inevitable in his political report, which was passed by the first Mahadhivashen. Alternative politics is an inevitable necessity of the present age. We are its bearers by accident. If we do not or cannot build an alternative political power, the era will give birth to another character," he said, "but in this historical moment of the world and Nepal, there is no option to build a new alternative political power. The alternative to alternative political power can only be an advanced alternative power.

He asserted that it is necessary to build a new political power because the Congress, UML, Maoist "communist party's initial 'vanguard' and 'democracy centralism' principles that came as an alternative to bureaucratic, centralized, leader-oriented and corrupt capitalism eventually turned into a terrible bureaucratic centralist structure and the autocracy of the main leader." He has taken Viveksheel Common Party, Rashtriya Swatantra Party, Janmat Party, Civil Liberties Party as alternative political forces.

There was a power struggle between Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Bhattarai for a long time. The struggle and unity between the two leaders lasted until the 2074 election. In the 2074 election, he nominated Dahal in Gorkha-2. After that, there was an attempt to unite the party, but it was not possible due to Dahal's disinterest. He has admitted in his political report that bringing Gurkha to Dahal was a serious mistake.

'Taking a common election symbol and leaving the constituency Gorkha-2 to Prachanda was a serious mistake. The election harmony was the side effect of the rash decision between Make, who was in difficulty after separating from UML, and us, who were confused when it was reorganized as NESP,' he wrote, 'Leaving Prachanda to Gorkha-2 was a consistent liberal weakness of our leadership.' He united with a Madhes-centric party in 2076 Baisakh to form the 'Saajwadi Party', and just one year after that in 077 Baisakh, he united with another Madhes-centric party to form the 'Janata Samajwadi Party'. A year later in 078 JSP split. In June 2079, Jaspa also split. Bhattarai formed the Nepal Samajwadi Party. Before the convention, he changed the name of the party to Nepal Samajwadi Party (New Power).