NC President Gagan Thapa
Nepali Congress President Gagan Kumar Thapa has announced that the next five years will be developed as golden period of change in the country.
Addressing an election rally organized by the Nepali Congress Karnali Province Committee in Surkhet on Thursday, the Prime Ministerial candidate of NC said that Nepali Congress will lead to bring change in the country making the five year period between 2026 to 2031 as base period for change.
“The election of March 5 is an opportunity to bring change in the country. Congress will never let this opportunity to go in vain” Thapa said.
Stating that the Gen Z movement of September 8 and 9 should not be forgotten, he made it clear that the NC supported the current Sushila Karki government for bringing the constitution on track through election.
He said the NC will work in such a way in the next five years that the Nepalis will get jobs in the home country and no one will have to spend hefty amount for treatment.
President Thapa admitted that the frequent changes of ruling coalition and governments in the past failed to speed up development and address people’s aspirations.
Meanwhile, coordinator of the Nepali Communist Party (NCP) Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ has expressed the view that there will be competition between forces, one the extremist and the other progressive nationalist during the upcoming election to the House of Representatives, pointed out the former Prime Minister while addressing a pressmeet at the party’s office at Parisdanda in Kathmandu on Thursday..
“Basically, three attitudes are in the fray- two extremists and one nationalist. By two extremist attitudes, I mean those who caused the murder of September 8 and have even today not taken moral responsibility for that and the other one is the force which caused destruction of September 9, said Prachanda. “There is the third attitude which denounced both types of extremism and took a nationalist, progressive stand, he said adding “We, the NCP, represent the nationalist force.”
The NCP has stood against the extremist attitudes that caused the incident of killing of protestors on September 8 and the attitudes that caused the destruction and arson on September 9, he pointed out.
NCP Coordinator Prachanda said that the incident of killing of protesters on September 8 was the result of the arrogance of the two-third majority of the then ruling parties (Nepali Congress and CPN-UML).
Dismissing rumours about electoral alliance that have surfaced in social media, the former Prime Minister, said that the NCP has not formed any electoral alliance with any party nor will it do.
Leader Prachanda also claimed that the NCP will emerge as the largest political force after the March 5 House of Representatives polls, if the party rank and file worked harder to make people aware of the current situation and importance of the NCP.
