Nas, You hit it right on. This is a case of the pot calling the kettle black. I think everyone shares the blame but this really comes down to a group  of mostly old-timers and life members who want to keep the ANA in their conrol and not open it to the kind of people who are running for the now stopped elections. They are more comfortable with someone like Prahlad KC rather than Dhiren Gurung or HB Bhandari or even Simon for that matter.

As for financial irregularities, it is not like somebody stole 80,000 dollars from the cash-box in Boston and  stashed it under their mattress. That is a myth perpetuated for political reasons that some gullible people have bought into. What happened, from what I understand, is the hotel  sought to renegotiate the contract at the last minute threatening to cancel the convention. The ANA team responsible for the venue, lead by Prahlad KC, basically panicked and signed off on a whole bunch of new charges without fully figuring out what they were getting into. When the convention was over and the numbers were crunched, they ended up with way more expenses than they ever imagined because the hotel now ended up costing several times more than they had planned.  Call it negligence, laziness or plain stupidity. That  opened the floodgates for ANA politics and the old timers used that loss as a stick to beat Simon with. Sadly, Simon, instead of owning up  as the head of the organization,  threw his Vice President and Convention Chair Medini Adhikari under the bus holding him responsible for the poor oversight. Medini Adhikari in turn ended up passing the blame to the co-convenors and the Boston team. The Boston team then passsed the blame back to the national ANA. So there is plenty of blame to go around.The supreme irony of all this is Prahlad KC actually tried to exhonerate himself from the situation by joining hands with the past presidents and is now in the midst of a lawsuit that might ending up showing way more culpability on his part.