‘NC to come up with clear ideas at convention’

Pokhara, Jan. 18 (RSS): Deputy Prime Minister and NC central member Ram Chandra Poudel has said that the Nepali Congress 10th general convention beginning tomorrow will elect a new party leadership and provide new shape to the party’s policies and organizational structure.

Talking to reporters at a programme here today, Deputy Prime Minister Poudel said besides discussing party policy and programmes, the general convention will help the party come up with clear ideas about how best the country can benefit from globalisation, privatisation and liberalisation in the changed context.

For a democratic party, holding elections on the basis of healthy competition is not a bad idea, rather such a practice promotes democratic exercise, he said. However, such elections should keep factionalism at bay for factionalism leads to polarisation in the party, marginalises qualified and committed party workers, and deprives party workers of the freedom of electing the party leadership using their own discretion, he observed.

Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Poudel also said that being a democratic party the Nepali Congress wants to resolve problems through dialogue. The party has always kept its door open for resolving the Maoist problem through dialogue and it does not deviate from this stand.

The government made efforts to initiate a dialogue with the Maoists even by involving mediators, but the Maoists did not reciprocate and began finding small execuses to avoid negotiations, he said.

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