Elderly leaders who are unable to learn new things and take new ideas should be dismissed from the executive role of the party in the coming fifteenth congress by making them honorable parents. There should be brought in tested, promising and young leaders.
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Nepali Congress leaders neither learn from their own experience nor from history. And, every generation of leaders keeps repeating one big and historic mistake after another, which is often suicidal for the party. But even then, if Girija Prasad Koirala or Sher Bahadur Deuba becomes a chairman or a leader like Shekhar Koirala who runs a big faction, he will not be questioned anywhere within the party.
By mistake, he does not have to answer to anyone in the party, to any structure. Punishment became a foreign matter. Because the leaders and workers of the Congress proudly say that the Congress is a 'leadership' party rather than a policy-making one. In practice, which means that the leader is greater than the method, it seems that the leader does not make mistakes, even if he does, he is free from questioning and punishment.
It was the responsibility of activists to change such impunity, yes. But the structure and culture of Congress is such that its workers are active only during elections. Why is that? Their answer is that we are not a worker-based party like the Communist Party.
This is how they cover up their laziness and inactivity. They either don't understand that they don't need to be a 'whole timer' like the Communist Party to be more active in their constituencies, basic structure of the party, departments or fraternal organizations etc. Some of those great memories after the restoration of democracy.
Girija Prasad's Mahabhul
Girija Prasad Koirala had a golden opportunity to rule the party for a long time and keep himself as the Prime Minister by managing the ambitions and egos of leaders Ganeshman Singh and Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, who are also in a powerful role in the party power, and who are also popular and senior to him outside the party. But leaving that path, Koirala dissolved the parliament and held mid-term elections to 'show' them.
By managing the internal strife of the party and appreciating the mandate, the people also punished the people in the election for not allowing the parliament to function for the entire term. In 2051, the party that came to power after winning 111 seats in the House of Representatives with 205 MPs was reduced to 83 seats in 2051. After that, a long series of 'Hung' Houses and unstable governments began in the country. Which is still there even after 30 years. There is no way to get rid of it yet.
At that time, if the Parliament was allowed to run for the full term, the Congress would easily win the next 2-3 general elections, everyone who knew a little, even the main rival party CPN-UML did it internally.
That is because the economic growth of the country reached around 7 percent at that time due to the liberal economic policy taken by the Girija-led Congress government. Motor roads were reaching villages. The private sector was booming and foreign investment was coming into sectors of comparative advantage such as hydropower and tourism. There was a revolution in aviation, communication, establishment of medical colleges and hospitals. In such a case, there was no question that the party that got a comfortable majority in the House would not win the next election.
In fact, in the election held in the year 2048, the people gave their votes in a very wise and mature manner. His first and decisive position in national politics for 35 years was sealed as a party that had fought a lot and made a lot of sacrifices for democracy. And, CPN-UML was given second place by the people because Josjangar had come with a new party and people's movement for democracy along with Congress.
Despite being identified as a communist, its visionary and reformist leader Madan Bhandari rejected the principle of the traditional one-party system of communist rule and adopted a democratic system based on competition between the parties called the People's Multi-Party Democracy. He could have won two elections after two elections with the strength of agile organization and continuous active workers. Even if not, after two or three elections, the wave of 'anti-incumbency' would come, his turn would come.
Then again Congress, then again UML won the elections alternately this cycle continued. Due to which both the government and the opposition would be weak and insecure, the current situation should not have happened. Dirty politics of corruption and partisanship would be much less, anarchy at the people's level would also be less, democracy would also be alive and active, economic development would be many times higher and there would be no communication of despair among the people like it is now.
Why should it happen unknowingly, Girijababu, who caused such a big mistake and damaged his party, was elected as the party president for the rest of his life. Before that, in his last days, he was used to carry the burden of Maoists both on the party and the country, in his greed to become the president. He was used as a central figure in getting the Maoists to come to an agreement where he would face no or reduced punishment for their party's excesses, which had caused more pain to his party than the kings. Even though
is like this, no one came out in the party to question this matter with critical awareness or to review this work. Instead, considering this mistake in the language and style of Maoist as a great achievement, the Congress ranks still consider him as God.
Sher Bahadur's blunders
Sher Bahadur Deuba, the 'warrior and youth' leader of that time, who once challenged Girijababu and had the courage to face him in the election of the party chairman, is not easy by pointing out the mistakes. He, who has been the party chairman for a long time and five times prime minister, left the path of struggle within the party against Girijababu's plan and split the party itself. He also announced that the election would be held in the event that the party split and could not get a majority. In the situation where the armed rebellion of the Maoists was at its height, there was no possibility of elections. Instead, he received a disability salary from the king for not being able to hold an election.
The infighting of the Congress made the Maoists even more ready to commit murder and violence, while the Raja took the reigns in his hands. Even if And the monarchy that could give guardianship to the country ended after some time. Sher Bahadur's blunders are not limited to this. He became infamous and unpopular for things like satlipsa, nepotism, which he used to accuse Girijababu himself.
They tried in vain to impeach the first woman Chief Justice who was honest and popular among the masses. But after that, he abandoned the proposal. Inaction and 'coterie' became his identity in party management. Despite such numerous and serious blunders, he is not only the chairman of the party for a long time, there is a strong possibility that the candidate he has supported will win tomorrow's convention and elections.
Shekhar: Repetition of mistakes
Shekhar Koirala is a rising leader in Congress politics who came into the limelight by working as Girijababu's right hand while bringing the Maoists to the peace process. He is an outstanding leader among the active leaders from family legacy politics to Congress politics.
Soft-spoken and well-read, his activism and activist and public relations are also good. It is also a natural aspiration for him, who won 40 percent of the votes when competing with Sher Bahadur in the election of the chairman of the last convention (although the situation has changed so that the votes have decreased a lot), to lay the groundwork for his candidacy for the chairmanship again in the coming convention.
But he is making a big mistake by unnecessarily running factions to strengthen his own group within the party by weakening the party's establishment side. Yes, Sher Bahadur and his founding group have not been able to run the party with speed and efficiency by including everyone with selfless spirit. But instead of playing a role in the party's structures and forums to guide the establishment side on the right path, he has been publicly criticizing the policy decisions taken by the party institutionally.
For example, when the party used to run the government together with the Maoists, it should run the government together with the UML, and now when it runs the government together with the UML, it should have joined with the Maoists. It cannot be said that the mistakes made by him by repeatedly doing such things will not lead the party to 2051 or 2059.
and, finally,
, the three leaders described above are not leaders who easily ignore party interests for their personal self-interest, ambition and dissatisfaction. But as they tasted both party power and state power, they became corrupt, paraphrasing Lord Acton's famous dictum that 'power corrupts'. There is no ideological difference between them, no ideological conflict. There is no difference of opinion about the direction, structure and organization of the
party. And why do they sometimes dissolve the parliament in which they have a majority, sometimes break up the party, and sometimes show the words and behavior of collapsing the government including their own party? Yes, one age also made them vulnerable.
If they were 40-50 years old, they would have said that even if I am not the party chairman or the prime minister now, I can be in another 10 years. As a result, such big mistakes were not made knowingly. Therefore, these two or other senior leaders like them, who cannot learn new things and take new ideas, should be dismissed from the executive role of the party in the upcoming fifteenth congress. And, a proven, promising and young leader should be brought into that role. This is the first condition for the reform and revival of the Congress. Even after that, there is still a lot to be done.
