Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' States Leadership is Not Easily Changed

Rupandehi. Chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal, Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda', has clarified that leadership is not something that stays forever, but it cannot be changed just because someone wants to make or remove it.

Speaking at the first unity meeting and training program of the CPN Lumbini Province Committee organized in Butwal, Rupandehi on Saturday, he clarified that leadership is made by history, movements, and struggles, and it is not easy to remove or make it.

Recalling leaders who separated from the party in the past, saying they would do much better work than him, he said, 'How many came out saying we will do much better than this leadership? Kiran ji left, poor Kiran ji. Baburam ji left, poor Baburam ji. Biplav ji left, poor Biplav ji, I don't need to say much about him now. Just the other day, Janardan was saying he would do wonders, he would show that he would defeat Prachanda, and if he didn't win one more seat than Prachanda, watch out. Poor Janardan ji. Now they are all losers, losers, and are trying to unite again, you will see.'

Targeting senior leaders who are pressuring him to leave the leadership that brought the party movement to this point, he said that he could only leave after discussing the political and organizational working style and considering who would be better for the party. Expressing anger towards those who spread hatred by calling them 'old men' on social media, he added, 'Some people write socialist articles with hatred towards old men, I get annoyed. How many times have people become ministers, how many times have they become MPs by grinding the bones of these old men? Now they are insulting this old man and saying he should leave.'

In this regard, he narrated the famous folk tale of a son who took his mother in a basket and pushed her down a cliff, warning against haste. He expressed concern that the tendency to create discussions within and outside the party about who will be the chairman, who will be the general secretary, and who will be the vice-chairman will further damage the party. Emphasizing the need to prepare for the general convention diligently, he said he was ready for leadership transition.

He said, 'I had said in the last meeting of the Maoist Center yesterday itself, I am also not interested in staying as chairman in this form anymore. I am preparing to leave, let everyone prepare together. But I am not leaving politics, not leaving the party, I want to change my form and role. To be in a slightly different form and a different role, because not all leaders have to remain chairman until the very end, or general secretary, that doesn't happen anywhere in the world.'