KATHMANDU: The Nepali Congress senior leader Ram Chandra Poudel has announced that he will stay away from leadership competition at the party’s ongoing 14th general convention.
Stating that the party’s general convention is not just a matter of selecting individuals, it is necessary to give a clear policy, plan and message of unity to the party, he said.
In a press release issued here on Saturday, he urged the party cadres and general convention delegates to focus on this direction and unite in building a strong and united party. Leader Poudel said, “I have to feel that the Congress is deviating from the way I used to understand it.”
He also recalled that the founding leaders BP Koirala, Ganeshman Singh and Krishna Prasad Bhattarai had fought for ideals and values all their lives so that the party would not be limited to the fear of power.
Mentioning that he had gone through many hardships in the run up to the 14th General Convention, he reminded that the party had to leave the field of competition in the midst of the General Convention despite its tireless efforts to embrace the values, norms and ideals of democracy.
He, as an honest and democratic Nepali, has also expressed his commitment to fight against the perversion and wrong tendencies seen in the party and the nation.
“My expectation that the Congressmen, especially the newly educated generation, who are full of faith in democracy, will continue their efforts to establish the Nepali Congress on the basic ideals of nationalism, democracy and socialism, has not been dashed,” he said in a statement.
I wish that my faithful friends would use their discretion to safeguard the ideals and values of democratic competition, even if they are separated from the competition.”
