Former general secretary of Nepali Congress (NC) Krishna Prasad Sitaula has said the party's leaders older than 65 years should hand over leadership to the younger leaders.
"The leaders who are over 65 like us should hand over leadership to the youth," Sitaula, 70, said in a seminar on the role of NC in the current situation of the country in Kathmandu on Monday. "The young friends should win us over through their ideology and organizational capabilities."
Many NC leaders including President Sher Bahadur Deuba ad senior leader Ram Chandra Paudel are over 65.
Sitaula opined that the country's politics currently is headed toward accident instead of becoming socialism-oriented and added that Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has woken up from slumber after seeing the mass that demonstrated the guthi bill.
"PM Oli may have learned a little that the voice of the streets should be heard after the guthi episode. The government has made a mistake. Interfered on constitutional bodies. Discriminated on the basis of political beliefs. Has terrorized the free media."
Pointing that there has been no unification in NC, he said unification should be started in a judicious manner on the basis of evaluation of contribution. "The party's organization cannot be expanded by staying in Kathmandu. Congress failed to reach the poor like BP Koirala advised."
