Prime Minister and Nepali Congress (NC) President Girija Prasad Koirala Tuesday said that he would retire from politics after the April polls, local media reported.
Talking to media persons before boarding a flight to the capital after a four-day stay in his hometown Biratnagar in eastern Nepal, the octogenarian leader informed that he would retire from politics after conducting the CA polls, a leading website, eKantipur.com reported.
Koirala added that he would hand over the NC leadership to the new generation of politicians.
Saying that the upcoming CA polls would be the last election for him, Koirala said, "I am old now."
Koirala said that he would like the Nepali Congress to get majority in the CA polls. "I am more concerned on how to make the CA polls a success," he said.
Koirala said that none could defer the April 10 elections.
He also informed that an agreement had been reached with the Indian government to strengthen security in the border region to curb the ongoing instances of violence, kidnapping and murders in the southern Nepal's Terai region.
The PM who had arrived Biratnagar, some 240 km east of Kathmandu, on Saturday to attend family functions and is due to return Kathmandu Tuesday afternoon.
Source: Xinhua
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