Nepal, March 11 -- Nepali Congress can salvage its reputation by being true to its traditionally held principles that came in good stead for so many decades. It should abandon expediency of opportunism

It's no more confined to speculation or rumor. The running fissures in the main opposition party, Nepali Congress, have spilled all over thanks to senior leaders washing their dirty linen in the open. Unsheathing their knives for next year's party convention, where elections to new office-bearers are in for fresh terms, personality-based camps are being created and lobbied for, as the respective faithful ones close ranks in a show of their individual strength.

NC President Sher Bahadur Deuba publicly warned that carrying a Koirala surname...