Prime Minister (PM) KP Sharma Oli has expressed pity over the state of the main opposition Nepali Congress (NC).
"It doesn't have any agenda or views. My grandmothers used to tell me when I was young that they used to catch flying birds at our age. NC has now crossed the stage of catching the flying birds and has started to talk sitting on the sun," PM Oli said addressing a program in Kathmandu on Monday. "It cannot even get up. I feel pity for NC."
He spent the majority of his time slamming NC and added that the party should not teach him democracy. "We were also in the opposition. We had won just 33 seats. But we didn't lose patience. We politely went to the people, and explained the issues they didn't understand. We resorted to peaceful resistance of violent oppression and now we have got the majority," he said. "Whatever NC does and howsoever it does is democracy. It says there is autocracy when it didn't win."
He claimed that the majority government of NC in 1991 had oppressed the then CPN-UML. "It lodged cases against 30,000 UML cadres then. I was arrested 30 times in three years. They would arrest me whenever they saw me on the street," he fumed. "NC shot bullets at 122 persons in three years. It opened fire on a cycle rally in the highway. That was NC's democracy."
He claimed that NC dismissed thousands of teachers and staffers on the basis of ideology and accused the party of devouring the country. He also accused NC of having an illusion that only it has knowledge about the issues of liberalization and free market economy.
