Kathmandu, Dec. 25 -- Nepali Congress General Secretary Gagan Thapa has fired a salvo against his boss, President Sher Bahadur Deuba, as the party failed to ensure its general convention on the stipulated date.

Deuba handed over his responsibilities to acting party chief Purna Bahadur Khadka before leaving for Singapore in October-end for treatment. Thapa has accused Deuba of engaging in "power politics" inside the party by seemingly distancing himself from it.

Amid calls for restructuring the party and changing its leadership in light of the September Gen Z movement, the country's oldest political party is deliberating over its general convention, having decided to hold it in Kathmandu on January 10-12.

But Thapa, who is looking to tr...