Many people in Kathmandu laughed when Nepal’s Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala on 20 May claimed that he was a man absolutely from greed of power. While unveiling Buddha’s statue in Lumbini on the 2552nd birthday of Buddha and World Buddhism Day, Koirala was responding to media reports that he was trying to prolong his post.
He recently said that he would not quit his post for the mandated party to lead a new government before the process of making a new constitution would be completed.
After the 19-day April uprising in 2006, other parties as a token of goodwill made him the head of the coalition government. Although he was undergoing treatment with regular oxygenation and medications at that time, he did not refuse the post of prime minister. He was in dying condition, he desired for the post.
In 1992, he expelled the supreme leader of Nepali Congress Ganesh Man Singh. Similarly, he sidelined another Nepali Congress founder Bhattarai whom he defeated in the parliamentary election in 1992.
Koirala took both the post of the prime minister as well as that of party President and did not want to quit either. Because of his intra-party disputes that one person could not be both the party chief and the government chief, the Nepali Congress split in 2001 when Sher Bahadur Deuba became the President of the split Congress party.
Although the Nepali Congress led by Sher Bahadur Deuba and the one led by Koirala have now untied, their district and village level party workers have not yet worked s the untied Congress party.
Prime Minister Koirala made his daughter Sujata Koirala the Minister without portfolio. She does her father’s work and provides him total rest. Many had been highly disreputed for her stance in favor of the feudal monarchy.
So far, Prime Minister Koirala has not let anybody become the prime minister from his party. He has repeatedly become the prime minister of Nepal. Sher Bahadur Deuba had to split the Nepali Congress to become the prime minister.
At present, many have expressed surprise at Koirala’s reluctance to resign from the post after his party’s defeat in the recently held constituent assembly poll.
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