General Secretary Thapa bats for capitalist system for elevating people’s status

Lalitpur, June 22: General Secretary of the Nepali Congress, Gagan Kumar Thapa, has said liberal and capitalist systems are beneficial to elevate people’s life standards.

During his interaction with Labour Party leader, Dr Bachchu Kailash Kaini, on ‘British parliamentary democracy and Labour Party’ amidst a program here Sunday, General Secretary Thapa said the Nepali Congress has been favoring liberalism and capitalism to improve people’s status. The program was organized by the Central Department of Library and Party Study Resource, NC.

“We want a prosperous Nepal, which we believe would be achieved by the capitalist model. Profit-making is not a crime. We want to improve the living standard of grassroots people,” he reminded. The General Secretary further said Nepal too has adopted the British model of the parliamentary system. He, too, has huge trust in this system.

NC has sisterly relations with the Labour Party, Thapa said, adding that old parties’ crises are reflected in the status of the Labour Party in the UK. The Labour Party’s advocacy for individual property and liberalism in 1995 was also raised by his party in Nepal, according to him. As per the liberal policy, NC had allocated adequate budgets to education, health and roads in rural areas after 1992.

On the occasion, Kaini informed that he was associated with the Labour Party since 2012. Despite his origin in Nepal, Kaini has become an educational and health management expert and a politician in the UK. Once, he was the district secretary of the Nepal Student Union in Tanahu. Dr Kaini also shared his experience and made analyses of the democratic exercise and operation of the Labour Party in the UK.

Intra-party democracy, policy-making process, participation of diverse communities and responsible leadership were other issues he explained on the occasion.