Even though Nepal’s Grand Old Party has strong second-generation leaders ready to take leadership and most of the party wants the same, the old guard is able to cling on.
The Nepali Congress, the Grand Old Party of Nepali politics, is in a crisis.
The party, which has been at the forefront of all major political changes in Nepal since the early 1950s, was the largest political party in the just-dissolved national parliament. But things have quickly changed.
The Gen Z revolt in early September turned Nepali politics on its head. In a matter of a single day, the stranglehold in Nepali politics of the Big Three — the Nepali Congress, the Communist Party of Nepal-United Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML) and the CPN (Maoist Centre) — was considerably loosened.
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