PM calls for unity, reconciliation for political stability

Kathmandu, July 23: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has stated that unity and collaboration between the Nepali Congress and CPN (UML), despite their distinct political ideologies, have enabled the nation to successfully face each critical juncture.     

Responding to concerns raised by lawmakers during a session of the House of Representatives today, Prime Minister Oli was of the view that such collaboration has led to political stability and transformative achievements, institutionalizing these accomplishments.     

He said that both political parties were able to steer adverse political developments in the right direction by following the paths laid out by BP Koirala and Pushpalal Shrestha. He claimed that the NC-UML coalition government has been successful in terms of achieving political stability and promoting prosperity in the country.     

Oli also took the opportunity to pay tribute to veteran communist leader Pushpalal and Nepal's first elected Prime Minister BP Koirala, whose memorial days were observed yesterday and today, respectively.     

He called on political leaders to focus on unity and reconciliation, rather than on 'difference' and 'division,' emphasizing the message of harmony conveyed by the two leaders.     

The Prime Minister, who is also the Chair of CPN (UML), said that Pushpalal, a relentless fighter for the cause of the nation and its citizens, was even denied the right to spend his final days in his homeland by the then autocratic regime.     

He added that Pushpalal's vision for a joint people’s movement was realized through the collaboration between the Nepali Congress and the then United Left Front Nepal in 1990, which led to the establishment of a multiparty democratic system.     

A similar form of collaboration in 2063 BS reinstated the dissolved parliament, bringing about a qualitative transformation in the political system. Such unity and transformation paved the way for suspending the centuries-old monarchy and enabled the situation wherein a people-elected Prime Minister could exercise the rights of the head of government, according to the Prime Minister.(RSS)