{"id":57845,"date":"2026-11-05T16:58:48","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T11:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=57845"},"modified":"2026-11-05T16:58:48","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T11:13:48","slug":"gagan-thapa-says-he-has-clean-hands-amid-allegations-over-congress-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/gagan-thapa-says-he-has-clean-hands-amid-allegations-over-congress-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"Gagan Thapa Says He Has \u2018Clean Hands\u2019 Amid Allegations Over Congress Dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, Nov, 5: Nepali Congress President Gagan Kumar Thapa has denied any wrongdoing in the dispute over the party\u2019s official status, insisting that he has not been involved in any improper financial transactions.<\/p>\n<p>In a video message posted on social media on Thursday, Thapa said he was standing on firm moral ground and had nothing to hide.<\/p>\n<p>His remarks come amid controversy surrounding publicly circulated audio involving intermediary Inam Sapkota, which has raised questions about alleged financial dealings in the legal battle over the party\u2019s legitimacy.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the allegations, Thapa said that despite claims involving millions of rupees, he had not engaged in even a single rupee\u2019s worth of improper financial transactions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBe assured that I, Gagan Thapa\u2014your brother, son, friend and party president\u2014am not standing on weak moral ground. My hands are clean. Speak in my support with confidence. The wrong questions should not be directed at me; the right questions should be asked in the right place,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Thapa also described the party\u2019s special general convention as an internal revolt, arguing that those who take a stand against the existing order do not concern themselves with the consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Nov, 5: Nepali Congress President Gagan Kumar Thapa has denied any wrongdoing in the dispute over the party\u2019s official status, insisting that he has not been involved in any improper financial transactions. In a video message posted on social media on Thursday, Thapa said he was standing on firm moral ground and had nothing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-national","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57846,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57845\/revisions\/57846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}