Amid the cacophony

NC Mahasamiti has brought up vital issues that need more debate.

The Nepali Congress General Council Meeting, or the Mahasamiti Baithak, was a cacophonous affair. This comes with it being a party with a slightly better sense of internal democracy compared to the other two in the league of the Big Three in the country. Its competitors are basically one-man shows—the CPN-UML and the Maoist Centre have yet to think of a second-generation leader who would replace KP Sharma Oli and Pushpa Kamal Dahal. In the Congress, though, even the leaders who go against the president get some visibility. And that is the reason the grand old party’s grand meeting looked chaotic, and mostly for a good reason—debate, after all, is the lifeline of a democracy.