Nepali Congress General Secretary Gururaj Ghimire on Election Defeat and Party Future

Kathmandu. The Nepali Congress suffered a humiliating defeat in the recently concluded House of Representatives elections. The Congress, which was the largest party in the previous election, won only 38 seats in total from the first-past-the-post and proportional representation categories. Following the Janji movement, the demand for restructuring political parties grew strongly, and the Congress also held a special general convention, electing a new central working committee under the leadership of Gagan Thapa.In the election held immediately after that, Congress went into the polls with the slogan 'Change Congress, Change the Country'. However, it failed to achieve success in the...