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More youth leaders ready to enter NC election fray
KATHMANDU, AUG 31 -
In a bid to secure “youth” participation in the policy-making level of the Nepali Congress (NC), over a dozen leaders including Chandra Bhandari, Dhan Raj Gurung, Ram Krishna Yadav, Pradip Paudel, Govinda Bhattarai, Dipak Giri, Rabindra Raj Joshi, Rajendra Gopal Singh, Indira Tiwari and others have decided to field their candidacies for the central committee members in the party’s General Convention slated for Sept. 17-21.
The announcement was made at a programme at the Reporter’s Club on Tuesday.
According to the leaders, their candidacies aim mainly at moderninsing the party, filling up the “intellectual crisis” visible within it, maintaining discipline, ending corruption, re-establishing the “lost” socialist principle of BP Koirala and re-institutionalising the student wing.
“We’ve not limited the definition of youth within the domain of age-groups,” said Chandra Bhandari. “Youth refers to the newness in the way of thinking. One who can guide the party to a new direction by his/her radical thought is a youth in the real sense.”
However, it is not sure whether these young faces would fight independently or tag along any of the existing panels in the party: the establishment faction led by Acting President Sushil Koirala, another faction led by Sher Bahadur Deuba and the third one headed by Bhim Bahadur Tamang and Narahari Acharya. Though some leaders claimed that they would fight independently, Ram Krishna Yadav, a lawmaker and one of the candidates, told the Post that many of the youth candidates are likely to support the Sushil Koirala faction in the General Convention.
Pradip Paudel said the party has been derailed from its main agenda of the socialist principle by the political stalemate in the nation after 1990s. “The direction that the party moved on after the restoration of democracy proved failure as the party lost its internal democracy,” he said. “Lack of internal democracy is the main reason why we lost the CA elections. Nevertheless it’s high time that youth take the charge of re-establishing democracy within the party.”
KC to contest for gen secy
KATHMANDU: Nepali Congess spokesperson Arjun Narsingh KC is set to field his candidacy for the post of general secretary in the 12th General Convention. KC is currently working as a Joint General Secretary of the party. NC leaders Narahari Acharya (officially) and Sujata Koirala (unofficially) have declared their candidacies for the post of general secretary and others including Ram Saran Mahat, Bimelendra Nidhi and Prakash Man Singh have expressed interest for the same post. (PR)
Posted on: 2010-09-01 03:06
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