Category: Interviews

Jacqueney: Mr. Prime Minister, you are known to be a champion of freedom and the democratic process and have repeatedly called for democracy in Nepal. What is your concept of democracy for your country? Koirala: To be very clear, my concept of democracy is democracy as it used to be understood[…]

Nepal’s feeble cry for democratization was virtually silenced recently in the wake of execution of two Nepali Congress activists, Captain Yagya Bahadur Thapa and Bhim Narain Shrestha. It is significant that the executions were carried out at a time when King Birendra was ostensibly moving towards a rapprochement with the[…]

B.P. Koirala, Napal’s former Premier and rebel leader, is an unsparing critic of the present Nepali panchayat system of government, which, he says, is only a pretence of democracy. Bhola Chatterji talks to him about Nepal’s political options. BP, your statement yesterday that New Delhi should in its own interest[…]

In political stature, popular acceptance and international standing Bisweswar Prasad Kiorala, 64, has no peer in Nepal. When the country went to the pools for the first time in 1959, he was the frontrunner from the outset and ended up Prime Minister. Most Nepalese expect performance if a general election[…]

B. P. Koirala, the once and possibly future Prime Minister of Nepal lives simply in typical Nepali house in Chabhill, Kathmandu. Two serious operations, the scars of which are prominent on the left side of his throat, have left his voice week and slightly tremulous but the spirit is still[…]

B.P. Koirala’s recent statements have created quite a stir among the local intelligentsia, and have also given rise to certain controversies over his views on a number of national issues. The Weekly Mirror approached him last week to know his mind on some issues of international importance. He expressed reluctance to make[…]

Few leader can say this and yet retain his credentials as a democratic person, but BISWESWAR PRASAD KOIRALA to his friends, B.P. gets away with this and more because, as he says, he does not “suffer from a sense of political insecurity”. Nepal’s first popularly elected Prime Minister has had[…]

Mr. B. P. Koirala’s struggle for a party-system in Nepal has had mach publicity as mush, perhaps, abroad, if not more, as at home. Statements after the referendum announcement have not lessened controversies on his democratic leanings. National Star approached his for an interview he obliged with written answers. Q:[…]

The compulsion to have to constantly reaffirm one’s principle is destined to achieve what he has struggled all throughout his life. B. P. Koirala, who had spearheaded the revolution of 1950, is yet on the mark to scoring another font of restoring to the people the lost democratic rights which,[…]