Koirala and Thapa patch up to up the ante against Deuba

Amid suspected fissures in faction, Gagan Thapa proposes Shekhar Koirala as the next parliamentary party leader.

It had been a long time since Nepali Congress General Secretary Gagan Thapa and senior leader of the party Shekhar Koirala shared a podium. Thapa won the election of the party’s general secretary from the Koirala camp, but Koirala himself lost the contest for party presidency to Sher Bahadur Deuba at the 14th general convention in December 2021.