Kathmandu: Swarnim Wagle, a public intellectual and a member of Nepali Congress, has made it clear to all that he has quit Nepali Congress, the party he was affiliated with since the 1986 Satyagraha and 1990’s political movement. “I have taken the decision to sever ties with Nepali Congress, the party with which I have had family legacy for the last 50 years,” he wrote on his Facebook page.
Wagle has said that he contributed to Nepali Congress in formulating economic plans and policies, raising intellectual and ideological discourse, training and international legitimacy indirectly for 30 years and directly for the last 10 years. “I am proud that I fulfilled the responsibility assigned to me in the National Planning Commission by Sushil Koirala and Sher Bahadur Deuba,” said Wagle in his Facebook post.
“But in the latter years, the situation was so created that every proud Congress cadre felt their dignity was challenged. The historic party founded by BP Koirala, Ganesh Man Singh, Subarna Shamsher, and Kishunji [Krishna Prasad Bhattarai] has degenerated into the incompetent coterie of Dai, Bhauju, Sala and Bhatij.”
Wagle appears to be alluding to Sher Bahadur Deuba and Arzu Deuba by Dai and Bhauju. He, however, has not mentioned their names.
Wagle has called for creating a strong alternative democratic force together with good people from Nepali Congress and communist parties, independent people who stand for freedom but not politically affiliated and the Nepalis who live abroad but who wish well for Nepal.
He has also hinted at being active in a new political role. “Carrying the agenda of fair democracy and economic prosperity founded on good governance, as we enter the new Nepali year of 2080 BS, I will be active in a new public role,” he has written.
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