End of Koirala-Cracy in congress?

We are less interested in the Congress' ongoing fight to-finish battle. We are also less interested in who wins finally and who rules the party that is a mess today to say the least. We are less interested in Congress' internal affairs simply because we have experienced ourselves the topsy-turvy functioning of this party which in its strictest sense of the term as such is not at all a political party but a totally battered, disorganized and undisciplined conglomerates of those who have given it the name of a political entity which it is not. However we are interested in the possible impact of this congress tussle on the overall political health of the nation which already is in a very delicate situation.

The fact is that congress from the very day one of its inception some five decades ago was a party controlled, dictated and run by the Koirala's and the other members of the said party remained in the party according to the whims and the mercy of the Koirala's. However, the congress was a better organized party till its visionary leader late B.P.Koirala was alive for he was the one main personality who brought all the threads together and steered the party and in the process made it a formidable force. This force in the process remained instrumental in the restoration of the multiparty system in the country, which is a fact that can't be dismissed. Equally true is the hard fact that it is this force which has brought about total aberration in the democratic system as and when this nation has embraced that particular system. In one way what could be bluntly said is that if it were to be considered a force that ensures the advent of the democratic order then it is again this force which causes destruction of the same.

It would be in the fitness of the things to take up the matter of the collapse of the parliamentary order as back as in 1960 when late B.P.Koirala was the leader of the congress party and the then Prime Minister of the country. Why late King Mahendra intervened into the scheme of the then congress politics becomes crystal clear when one looks into the manner of today's congress tussle. However, this in no way means that we support any sort of intervention by the present monarch in the country's politics obtaining today due to the congress' sheer follies. But yet what we dare to say at this stage is that the monarch must soon convene a sort of national conference and speak to the men invited at the conference in order to clear the hotch-potch created in the country's politics by the congress fierce tussle. This monarch must do at the earliest or else it would have no meaning at all. Let it not be a case of after death the doctor. If he really is the guardian of the State then he must do and act as per his fresh saying that has come in the form an interview granted to a foreign press.

The lay people this round entertained from high congress shameful drama. Split or not in the congress is immaterial. However, what is for sure is that if it splits would invite yet another split and the process will thus continue. The gist of the whole write up is that the congress is merely a conglomerate of power lust people with no ideological mindset or whatsoever. The nation and its population must be thanked who were forced to bear with such a political entity which it was not and is not.

While we are pained in denouncing the party in question for we know that this party has had contribution in restoring the present order but then its present chaotic performances on either sides forces us to conclude that both were not fighting each other for the preservation and the consolidation of democracy but instead for the fulfillment of their personal egos.

Whosoever wins in this battle is of less interest to us. However, what is for sure again is that the present battle has badly exposed president Koirala and his men in the coterie. Bluntly speaking, Koirala hegemony, if it were by any means, in the party that he so skillfully and with dedication nurtured for decades and decades has been challenged by his own "kids". Should this mean that the Koirala-cracy(?) in the congress has come to an end? It appears so at least for the moment.

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