Biratnagar: Sher Bahadur Deuba is the President of the grand old Nepali Congress party.
However, Deuba is the one who sincerely “apologized” in front of the Indian Prime Minister Narendar Bhai Das Modi for not having been able to “amend” the new Nepal Constitution as per the dictates of the Indian establishment.
This was the impression then when SB Deuba was on a state visit to India some three years back.
PM Oli replaced Deuba.
The “humiliating event” in Delhi thus exposed SB Deuba and his “tilted” colleagues to the hilt and that nothing remains to be explained by Deuba and his intimate “nationalist” party men if any.
Now the same SB Deuba, the President of the NC party, has in the recent days took a decision that has agitated the entire NC party more so the factions led by Ram Chandra Poudel and General Secretary Dr. Shashank Koirala.
The agitation is related with the abrupt announcement of the dates of the NC general Convention by President Deuba.
Says Dr. Shashank Koirala talking to Reporters Nepal December 31/19 that, “now we are left with no option other than to converge at a common point and devise some effective schemes in order to bring the current NC President to foot path”.
“We now need the ouster of the incumbent president Deuba”, so says a determined Dr. Koirala.
According to Dr. Koirala, Deuba took the decision of the convening of the General Convention on his own and thus humiliated the entire top members of the NC manning the party.
“We are now meeting the NC functionaries and convincing them all that the NC party will collapse if SB Deuba is allowed to continue in the current office as President of the Party.
Deuba needs to be replaced for he poses existential threat to the party, opined Dr. Koirala.
He says Deuba could have announced the dates by consulting us but he did not do so instead he ignored us all in the party, says an annoyed Koirala who is an acclaimed Ophthalmologist.
Notably, since SB Deuba enjoys the overt and covert support from the Indian establishment thus what is believed that he must have announced the convention dates under the dictates of the Indian envoy who is all set to leave the country for good upon completion of his Nepal assignment.
To recall, the outgoing Indian Ambassador MS Puri lived and enjoyed a life like that of the Indian Viceroy sent to control the troubled Nepal.
Ambassador Puri did his assigned task well.
Deuba threw a lavish Luncheon in honor of the outgoing Indian Ambassador.
God is great that Ambassador Puri is leaving this nation. His “intimate” agents have abundant reasons to lament. So be it.
A politically immature Shashank Koirala is taken as a Child in the Nepali Congress party for his unstable habits.
But yet mature political observers say that SB Deuba may have dared to take this solo decision as regards the convening of the General Convention because Deuba knows well that the Koiralas’ ( for example Dr. Shekhar Koirala, Ms. Sujata Koirala and Dr. Shashank Koirala) were a quarrelling lot and that unity among the Koirala’ stands in a fractured state.
Dr. Shashank Koirala for example, favored Nepal being restored as a Hindu State.
However, when he confronted criticisms from within his own party then he denied to have said so.
Unconfirmed sources have said this online portal that in the recent days the Koiralas’ have inched closer to each other. Perhaps it is the Deuba effect. That’s all.