KATHMANDU, Dec. 4 -- CPN-UML Vice-Chair Surendra Prasad Pandey has expressed concern that the personalities of individual leaders are increasingly overshadowing institutional processes within the party.

Speaking on Nagarik Frontline on Wednesday, leader Pandey said the growing dominance of individual leaders posed a threat to the party's identity and internal democracy.

Recalling UML's organizational history, he said the party once prioritized collective leadership. "During the Marxist Leninist (M-L) era, we never highlighted who the leader was. The belief then was that when a leader's personality becomes too big, it begins to crush the party's institutional identity," he said. "Today, we are facing the same problem. Leaders have been e...