BP through this friends’ looking glasses

BP could exhibit as much courage and character while fighting the monarchy, as when he espoused reconciliation.

BP Koirala, or BP as he is popularly known across a broad political spectrum, is recognised as the most influential leader of modern Nepal. This week, we mark the completion of 40 years since his demise. His life, struggle and ideology continue to inspire millions beyond the Nepali Congress (NC), the party he founded, and its leaders. Nepalis across the political range admire him for his contribution to the process of nation building. The left respects him for his revolutionary defiance of the established social order and his socialist outlook on economic development. The right admires the reconciliatory position he took in the last decade of his life on the then prevailing, but now abolished, institution of monarchy.