Generational waves within parties

Youth across different parties are trying to bring about positive change.

The second special general convention of the Nepali Congress has raised some pragmatic, theoretical and popular questions all at once. At first, I took it as a regular political exercise by a major political party in this country. The principal attributes of the old parties are their established conventions and, importantly, the ageing of their leaders. In such discourse, the subject is “lust for power”, in the words of the British philosopher Bertrand Russell, that grips the minds of the octogenarians and septuagenarians—leaders aged 70 to 79. Their control over political parties is currently a widely touted subject. Propelled by this phenomenon, I read many texts about this subject. I was surprised to see how the millennial generation, those who approached adulthood in the early years of the 21st century, and Gen Z have become a force in democratic countries with regular elections.