Founded in Calcutta in 1947 as the Nepali National Congress and subsequently unified with the Nepal Praja Parishad and Nepal Democratic Congress in 1949, the Nepali Congress (NC) is not merely the country's oldest democratic party; it represents a cornerstone of modern Nepal's political, social and constitutional consciousness. Nurtured by the sacrifices, integrity and hard work of Bishweshwar Prasad (BP) Koirala, Iron Man Ganeshman Singh, Subarna Shumsher Rana and the ascetic statesman Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, the party helped overthrow the 104-year autocratic Rana regime through the 1950 (2007 BS) revolution. In the historic 1959 (2015 BS) general elections, it secured a two-thirds majority to form Nepal’s first democratically elected government under BP Koirala. Following King Mahendra’s royal coup in 1960 (2017 BS), the party kept the banner of democracy flying through imprisonment, self-exile, underground resistance and daring acts such as the plane hijacking.
Read full story at source ( myrepublica.nagariknetwork.com )
.png)