KATHMANDU: Nepali Congress President Gagan Kumar Thapa praised the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) for gaining extraordinary public support within just four years of its formation, calling its rapid rise deeply enviable.

Speaking at the RSP’s first general convention, Thapa cautioned the new political force to avoid the pitfalls of power and arrogance.

He highlighted that while such massive mandates have occurred three or four times in Nepal’s history, they repeatedly ended in disaster because past leaders succumbed to internal ego clashes and forgot the democratic limits of power.

Wishing the convention success, Thapa urged the RSP to learn from these historical mistakes to prevent its public trust from meeting a similar fate.