Leaders' view that youth should be brought into leadership by holding a general convention in Asoj during the Central Work Coordination Committee meeting
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In the ongoing meeting of the Central Working Coordination Committee of the Nepali Communist Party (NCP) on Tuesday, leaders have demanded to hold the party's general convention in Asoj. After coordinator Pushpa Kamal Dahal proposed to hold the general convention within six months, the leaders have demanded to fix the date. Most of the leaders who spoke in the meeting on Monday concluded that despite the unity of two dozen parties and groups, including the Maoists and the Unified Socialists, the election did not yield the desired results and expressed the view that the legal system should be developed in a way that would allow youth to lead through the general convention in Asoj.
In the election held on 21 Falgun, the NCP won eight seats in the direct and nine in the proportional representation. The 45-member Central Working Coordination Committee meeting pointed out the failure to rebuild the party and adjust the organization in time, being caught in the grip of the digital tsunami, and the combination of geopolitical interests as reasons for the NCP's poor performance. A leader said that most of the speakers in the meeting demanded a new leadership and party reorganization from the general convention, taking lessons from the poor results obtained in the elections.
Former Finance Minister and leader Barshaman Pun has suggested that it would be appropriate to hold the general convention in Asoj. His suggestion was to develop a youth-friendly system from the general convention. ‘It would be appropriate to hold the general convention in Asoj to reorganize the party and give it momentum. Let’s rebuild ideas and political leadership from the general convention,’ a leader said, quoting Pun, ‘Let’s discuss a youth-friendly leadership system from the general convention. Let’s get ready to go in a new way. Only then can the party be formed.’
Leader Pun also claimed that geopolitical interests were also involved in the defeat of the NCP. ‘The Gen-G movement is the anger of the youth.’ Geopolitical interests were also added to it,' he said in the meeting, 'On 23 Bhadra, we opposed the tendency to kill and suppress the youth and on 24 Bhadra, the tendency to destroy. But we could not establish our identity in the elections. We were criticized as being the same as other parties. We lost the elections.' Pun mentioned that the NCP can only survive by doing politics for the target group. 'We represent the oppressed people. We cannot organize that group. We should form a party with ideas that take into account the concerns of the people,' said leader Pun.
Another leader, Prakash Jwala, also believes that it will be difficult to rebuild the party without transforming it from the general convention. 'Let's hold conventions in the ward, municipality and province and hold a national general convention in Asoj.' Let's work on reorganizing policies, methods, principles, leadership, and working style,' he said, 'We have to reorganize, purify, and strengthen the party as a whole. Let's renew and transform ideas, principles. Let's recruit youth in large numbers into the party. Let's create an environment that will lead to leadership.'
Another leader, Ganganarayan Shrestha, said that the general convention will guide the party since the party can only move towards its destination after a proper review of the election defeat. In the meeting, Pun, Jwala, Shrestha, Agni Sapkota, Ramchandra Jha, Rajendra Pandey, Gangalal Tuladhar, and Gopal Kirati also expressed the view that the party should move forward only after holding a general convention soon.
Pushpa Kamal Dahal is the coordinator of the NCP and Madhav Kumar Nepal is the co-coordinator. Although two dozen components including the Maoists and the Unified Socialists were united last October, the process of unification of the organizations has not yet been completed. Even though a 2,500-member general convention organizing committee has been formed, other fraternal organizations have not been united. Dahal had proposed a general convention in writing at the meeting of the Central Coordination Committee last Thursday. The proposal he put forward states that the party will hold a national unity convention within the next six months. However, most of the leaders who spoke at Monday's meeting have demanded that the date of the general convention be fixed.
Coordinator Dahal has mentioned in his report that there were 11 internal and 6 external reasons for the NCP's defeat. Dahal has also argued that although the government led by him has taken forward some work on corruption control and good governance, it has stalled after the coalition government of the two largest parties in parliament, the Congress and the UML, was formed. ‘The people were disappointed after the Congress-UML coalition government, which had formed a coalition government with almost two-thirds of the seats, did nothing to control corruption, good governance, service delivery and development,’ the report says. ‘The old parties did nothing about it. Even though the system changed, the situation did not change. The propaganda added fuel to the fire.’ The result was seen in the elections.’
The NCP’s lack of organizational adjustment and the mobilization of local cadres in the elections were weak. It is claimed that internal differences among local leadership, factional activities and indiscipline in some areas also affected the elections. Similarly, the lack of ideological work and the youth not joining the party have also been shown as reasons for the defeat. It is mentioned that the NCP also achieved poor results due to the lack of unity among the left forces. ‘The lack of unity among the left forces is also one of the reasons why the communist parties lost the elections,’ the report says. ‘The proportional votes received by the nine communist parties that contested the elections alone are more than 4 million. If the left forces had been united, they could have attracted even more votes.’ Dahal has also cited opportunistic tendencies within the party and individual working style, lack of technical manpower and resources, and the inability to present themselves as an alternative as reasons for the election defeat. Dahal has also claimed that geopolitical maneuvering influenced the election. ‘The maneuvering of geopolitical and external power centers has increased in our country. Various power centers have tried to form a government favorable to them here,’ the report says. ‘For that, organizations operated by external forces and resources were mobilized.’ They attacked and defamed the old political parties here, especially the leftist political parties. Leaders continue to express their opinions on Coordinator Dahal's report.
