by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, December 20, 2023 .The election for the National Assembly scheduled for January 25 will be another litmus test for Nepali Congress chief Sher Bahadur Deuba. As promised earlier, Deuba is almost prepared to field party leader Krishna Prasad Sitaula, who aspires to enter the upper house from the Koshi Province. Twenty of the National Assembly’s total 59 seats fall vacant on March 3. One of the vacancies will…
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Congress rival factions devise strategies to counter each other at central working committee meeting
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, July 18, 2023On Tuesday, the Nepali Congress is holding its first Central Working Committee meeting after the general elections held in November 2022. According to leaders, the meeting will discuss policy conventions and assess the polls besides other contemporary political developments. The meeting will be crucial with party president Sher Bahadur Deuba expected to face many questions and a hail of criticism from the central working committee…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post online, July 12, 2023On Saturday, Gagan Thapa, a popular Nepali Congress leader and one of the party’s two general secretaries, made an interesting announcement: “The need of the hour is to make myself or any other leader from my generation the new prime minister of the country.” The announcement created a ripple of sorts in political circles—especially in the country’s largest party. Most Congress leaders doubt the…
by Purushottam Poudel in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 22, 2022Following the defeat of Nepali Congress General Secretary Gagan Thapa to party chief Sher Bahadur Deuba in the race for parliamentary party leadership on Wednesday, the party’s dissident faction led by Shekhar Koirala and Thapa has decided to assert itself against the establishment faction in the days ahead. After losing the contest to Deuba with a margin of 39 votes, Thapa told reporters that he wouldn’t…