Kathmandu, September 9: Today is the 111st birth anniversary of the late BP Koirala, the founding leader of the Nepali Congress. The late Koirala was a multidimensional leader who had contributed a lot to politics and literature. Former prime minister and founding president of the Nepali Congress, Koirala was self-exiled in India after King Mahendra introduced the partyless panchayat system and returned to Nepal with the ideology of reconciliation with the King after India annexed Sikkim. Koirala strongly believed in constitutional monarchy and multiparty democracy to safeguard the nation’s sovereignty and independence. However, today, his party has given up the ideology of the constitutional monarchy and is facing different anomalies due to the wrong leadership, it observes BP anniversary just for formalities. People’s News Monitoring Service.