Unsisterly wings

Sister wings of political parties either need to be disbanded or revamped to serve their intended purpose.

In yet another case of intra-party political discord leaking into its sister organisations, rival factions of the youth wing of the Rastriya Prajantra Party (RPP) clashed on Wednesday, forcing an abrupt postponement of the wing’s Kathmandu district convention. In the process, a sister wing of a political party again showed itself to be no more than a puppet of the leaders of the mother party. The ugly truth is that their use as a political weapon has greatly corrupted these organisations over the years.