The grand old party of Nepal, Nepali Congress, is thinking big. Its leaders have the habit of inflating petite issues to a bigger level but this time it gives the impression that it is going to be real big.

The party appears to have been waiting for signals from abroad for the declaration as it does more often than not.

But the internal fact is that it is for sure thinking something big which may have some elements that could surprise the national population. The elements though remain yet undisclosed.

For the NC, the 2015 Indian economic blockade on Nepal was not a blockade. This blind support to India extended then by the NC is what has exposed it in the eyes of the domestic population. Many a NC leader, Sher Bahadur for example, even as of today do not take the Indian blockade as what it had been for entire Nepali population. Subservience this. The NC is paying for those follies.

Whatever may have been the case after its humiliating debacle in the last parliamentary election, the grand old party is forced to think big at least to meet the increasing demands of the changed political context both within and without, which the party needs in effect to maintain it’s what could be called as “survival”.

The crude reality has been that the NC is bereft of a dynamic leadership who could steer the party as is demanded as per the changing times in South Asia and also of the politics of the country.

Frankly speaking, after the demise of BP Koirala, the successive leaders who took over the mantle of the party tentatively ruined the party save the jovial Krishna Prasad Bhattarai. But his hands too were tied.

However, late Bhattarai was awarded an insult by late Girija Prasad Koirala whose parallels could not be found in the modern history of Nepal and its politics more so of the Nepali Congress one.

Similarly, the Iron man, late Ganesh Man Singh who brought the NC party to the stage that could not even be imagined of by the Brahmins of the sort of Koirala and Bhattarai too quit the party for good.

Late Mr. Singh was forced to quit the party as infinitum as he could not bear the insult after insults that was awarded on him by GP Koirala when alive.

Mr. Singh when pressed to the wall quit the party that he founded once upon a time with a heavy heart.

A weeping Ganesh man Singh thus said good bye to the party which he himself nursed in the bad times.

(This scribe saw the Old Iron man weeping in Ghattekulo NC office which late Singh has established).

Mr. Singh even ignored the PM post when approached by King Birendra in the early 1990s. He had attained this unimaginable height overnight in the early 1990s.

Now that the party is going down each day, the Koirala family members appear to have taken the challenging task to upgrade the Party and to attain a new level at par to what it had been in the recent past and in the process the three Koiralas, Shekhar Koirala, Sujata Koirala, and Shashank Koirala have decided to keep aside their political differences for the time being but take a united stand in solidifying and energizing the decaying party that could match the formidable challenge posed to the NC by the incumbent UML-Maoists center grand unified party now ruling the India tortured nation-state.

Very recently, Shashank, the general Secretary of the Nepali Congress while talking to a select group of NC tilted media men in Butwal said that “now the time had come to bring into intense debate the revival of Hindu identity of the Country as it used to be in the days of the erstwhile Monarchy”.

In saying so, Koirala, an Ophthalmologist by profession, perhaps saw what others, including his own party stalwarts, have failed to see. The junior Koirala may have seen the revival of Hindu identity could bring back the party to the former glory and prestige with which his own late father had steered the party in the good old days of the 1960s-70s.

Thus Junior Koirala has floated the idea of the Hindu religion in a country where the majority of the population follow the Hindu religion.

The question thus is: Has Koirala spoken of the revival of the Hindu religious in the country on his own or has he been told to speak on these lines?

Informed sources say that the NC men do not speak even a single word unless told to speak by the nearest and dearest regime that is India.

Some even claim that Shashank spoke for the revival of the Hindu State only when the national Security Adviser of India Mr. Ajit Doval instructed him to speak so.

The authenticity of this has yet to be substantiated which time permitting, let’s hope so, come to the knowledge of the countrymen.

The Junior Koirala if he really means the revival of Hindu state in Nepal then he must not have spoken without examining its pros and cons. So let’s hope that Shashank means to what he has spelt out in Butwal.

What is also noteworthy is that the former Nepal King Gyanendra is also in search of a reliable political partner who could be trusted in “restoring” his lost Kingdom.

Any connection in between Koirala’s sudden eruption of love for Hindu religion and King Gyanendra’s fanatic travel from here to there (even to Sri Lanka) aiming nothing?

How it is possible? Gyanedra’s travel must not have been just for pleasure. Is it that both Shashank and King Gyanendra enjoy the tacit backing of Ajit Doval? Doval is the most trusted man of Indian PM Modi, observers have been told.