Nepali Congress General Secretary Gagan Thapa has stated (that) the dissatisfaction will surface and go haywire if the discrimination inside the party continues.
Expressing views at a program organized by the Nepal Women Association, the sister organization of the Nepali Congress, at Bahrabise in Sindhupalchowk on Friday, General Secretary Thapa said the party which has 866,000 active members has now been slipshod.
“Many party cadres are complaining about discrimination and injustices inside the party. If there is fair treatment and the justice prevails, the cadres will talk positive about the party. If not, they will come down heavily on the party. As a result, the party will be robust.” said Thapa.
Thapa said that the party statute allows to elect the ward president but the ward representatives are elected from the center. “This is a band trend. It should be stopped right away. The ward itself should be allowed to elect the representatives and the candidate of the member of parliament (MP),” added Thapa.
Lashing out at the power-centered (top-down) system in the party, Thapa said party president should not reserve rights to distribute tickets during the elections. “If the party president reserves all rights, it will breed anarchism. We should stop this trend from the 15th General Convention.”
The right to choose the candidate of the member of the parliament from the Sindhupalchowk-1 should be given to the active members of this constituency itself, not to the party president.
“If the proportional representation candidate is also elected through voting, not from the center, no leader can unfairly influence and use his/her high-handedness while distributing tickets.”
The just party can only provide justice to the people, said Thapa, “The Congress has a strong hold from the federal to the local level but the grievance of the cadres has not yet been addressed.”
He further said that the dissatisfaction is among the Nepali people, it is not only inside the party. Goods produced by farmers are not getting market. Cooperative operators are absconding after failing to pay back deposits. Anti-democratic elements are fanning the flames of adverse condition of the country.
People will be satisfied only when the people’s representatives live up to the expectations of the people. “Citizens feel the presence of the government and the state and that the existing discontment will disappear.”
