Nepali Congress Leader Stresses Party Unity as Essential for Strengthening Legacy

Chitwan. Nepali Congress leader Nain Singh Mahar has stated that party unity is the primary necessity today to further strengthen the Congress, which carries a historical legacy. Addressing the 'Meet and Deliberation' program organized by Nepali Congress Chitwan, leader Mahar emphasized the need to elevate the glorious history of the Congress and the moderate democratic ideology it has embraced since its inception to greater heights. He interpreted the ideological diversity and internal democracy within the party as the Congress's 'all-encompassing strength'.

Recalling the historical fact that B.P. Koirala and Subarna Shamsher integrated two different forces to build the Congress, leader Mahar stated that based on that foundation of unity, a resolution must be made today to build an even more vigorous and united Congress. He pointed out that to make the party more pro-people, ruthless self-reflection must be carried out from the leadership down to the grassroots level, and diverse ideas and perspectives within the party must be embraced with the highest tolerance.

Presenting positive examples from world politics, he mentioned that the Congress should chart a course for strategic renaissance by learning lessons from the historic resurgence of the Labour Party in the UK.

Stating that the journey ahead should focus solely on a 'United Congress', considering past factional squabbles and internal power struggles as secondary matters, he stressed the need to start a new journey from zero, abandoning all past prejudices and restructuring the party organizationally and ideologically through the upcoming General Convention.

Expressing the view that the Congress must make unity within itself the first condition to lead the defense of democracy and the socio-economic transformation of the country, he also stated the imperative for everyone to abandon personal grievances, keeping the interests of the party and the nation at the center. For this, Mahar said that all democrats across the country must come together.

'Let us all leave behind our grievances, impulses, exaggerated expressions of the past, and divisions in the name of regular and special general conventions, and engage in the campaign to build a common party in the 15th General Convention for the construction of the party. If we cannot move forward in this manner, we will fail to preserve the history of Nepal and the Congress,' he said.