KATHMANDU: Gagan Thapa, General Secretary of the Nepali Congress, has put forth a new proposal aimed at ending the persistent factionalism within the party.
He introduced this idea while addressing the third conference and training program of the Nepali Congress Provincial Assembly Regional Working Committee, Constituency No. 6, Province ‘A’, Kathmandu.
General Secretary Thapa believes that factionalism, a long-standing issue in the Nepali Congress, would cease if all active members of the party were empowered to directly elect the party president.
He said until the current leadership selection process is changed to allow all active members to elect the leadership, factionalism will continue to persist.
“If colleagues are ready, there is a sure-fire weapon to end party factionalism,” he said. “We have 866,000 active members in the Nepali Congress. Let’s say, with renewals and new additions this time, it becomes 1.2 million. Let’s arrange for those 1.2 million people to directly elect the Nepali Congress president. A Congress president elected by 1.2 million people would crush anyone who tries to form a faction. That would be the end of it. Otherwise, factions will continue to form, no matter how many speeches are given.”
General Secretary Thapa also claimed that the Nepali Congress’s 15th General Convention would be held before December 2026.
“We must complete the convention before December 2026. If anyone has any suspicion in their mind that the convention will happen after the 2084 BS elections, please disabuse yourselves of that notion,” he said.
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