26 Years Ago

One of the immediate by-products of the anointment of former Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala as Nepali Congress President has been the resurrection of its familiar but absurd claim that the Nepali Congress is the “only” democratic party in the country. Such a public assertion was voiced by none other than Prime Minister Share Bahadur Deuba at a mass meeting organized by the Nepali Congress at the open-air theatre at the Tundikhel last Saturday at the conclusion of his party’s ninth general convention whose major highlight was the election of Koirala as the new party president. People’s Review, 16 May 1996