Better late than never the Nepali Congress party has begun realizing as to which ailments have plagued the party as such of late more so beginning prior to the parliamentary elections that continues even as of today.
Needless to say the NC as an oldest party of the country is forced to brave some sort of humiliation both within and without for the debacle the party have had to embrace after the election results were announced.
Thanks the party could manage to absorb even the pain associated with high voltage shock of this magnitude and the party as of now appears to have become aware of the causes and the reforms that were due in order to revive the original strength and popularity of the party so that the political conglomerate could compete with the new political players that have emerged in the political spectrum in the recent months, more so after the unification of the two communists parties e.g. the UML and the Maoists center.
Understandably the unified communist party which apparently has come to this gigantic shape only when the UML tentatively gulped the Delhi nursed Nepal Maoist party and become a single political entity which has been causing some sort of “existential” threat to the Nepali Congress.
However, the NC has nothing to panic as the communists have a record history of not having the liberty of carrying the unity for long.
This means that the freshly unified communist party, of Oli and Dahal, may not continue for long, claim other smaller communist forces that were not included in the mainstream communist party.
But yet the NC remains in a scared state which is obvious for multiple reasons.
Senior leader of the Nepali Congress, Ram Chandra Poudel, while inaugurating the contact office of the Parbat Congress in Balaju, Kathmandu on June 16 2018, said that the “party must take correct steps and too immediately to fight with the emerging trend of authoritarianism in the country”.
NC leader Poudel further said that “the Communists have pushed the Nepali Congress to the wall” and thus “we must devise appropriate schemes which could block the emergence of absolutism”.
Yet another Central Committee leader, Mr.
Arjun Prasad Joshi opined that since the country was already in a troubled state which demanded the internal unity amongst the party leaders of the Nepali Congress.
“All that the country needs now is the internal unity among the rank and file of the Nepali Congressmen across the country”, Mr. Joshi said.
However, political observers believe that the Nepali Congress future much depends upon how the Koirala family members behave with each other: as competitors or party unifiers?
If and when they unite, let’s assume for some time, then much shall also depend on how the Koirala family brings the rest of the democratic forces together and compete with the increasing force of the unified communists. But will the Koirala family unite first?