Nepal, Nov. 5 -- Nepali Congress (NC) President Gagan Thapa has claimed that no financial transactions or wrongdoing took place in the party's political and legal battle over its official status. Saying that a deliberate misinformation campaign was being waged against him, he expressed confidence that a police investigation would bring the facts to light.

In a video message released on Thursday, Thapa clarified that the party's special general convention was the outcome of a rebellion and that he and his colleagues had also participated in it. Describing the convention as an effort to bring change within the party in recognition of the youth uprising of September 8 and 9, he denied any financial manipulation in the political and legal b...