Kathmandu, Aug 23: CPN UML leader and former minister Gokul Baskota has made a sharp comment on how political parties are run and on the current state of Nepal’s Left movement.
Writing on social media, Baskota said, “A political party is not a feudal estate where someone gets to decide who can speak and who cannot.” Questioning the conduct of those in leadership positions, he said it had become a lasting pattern for people to demand rights when they are weak but label others’ voices as “anarchy” once they become powerful.
He further wrote, “Rights when weak, anarchy when strong! Whoever the power or leader, yesterday, today or tomorrow, this remains an enduring truth.”
Baskota also expressed serious concern about the future and direction of Nepal’s Left parties. He compared the current political uncertainty with a difficult period in the country’s history.
“Nepal’s Left parties have reached exactly the state of 1960–1970, like a traveller standing at a crossroads,” he said.
The decade following King Mahendra’s 1960 coup, from 1960 to 1970 (2017-2027 BS), was marked by divisions, uncertainty and a defensive posture within Nepal’s communist movement. Baskota’s remarks suggest that Nepal’s Left parties have once again reached a similar point of political uncertainty and lack of direction.
People’s News Monitoring Service
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