by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 7, 2023The five-day long central committee meeting of the ruling CPN (Maoist Centre) concluded on Sunday with a renewed commitment to ‘invigorating’ the party by reaching out to the grassroots. The ruling party’s decision to launch a grassroots campaign comes at a time when Maoist leaders and cadres have been accusing the party top brass of focusing only on power, resulting in the party’s decline to…
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by Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 7, 2023Not even a year has passed since the last general elections, but Nepal’s political parties have already begun their preparations for the next major and local polls. Campaigns to strengthen voter base and expand party organisation to the grassroots have become common of late. Politicians and observers the Post spoke to say that the takeaway from the last polls is that it is a time for…
Report in The Kathmandu Post, August 6, 2023CPN-UML chair and former prime minister KP Sharma Oli took a jibe against the government on various foreign policy matters and accused Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal of surrendering to foreign powers to stay in power. “Though we are talking about unity among parties on the matter of foreign policy, we do not know what the prime ministers are compromising on with foreign nations to remain in power,”…
by Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post,August 6, 2023Nepal is awaiting India’s decision on a number of hydropower-related issues as restlessness grows in the country over the southern neighbour’s continued delay in taking decisions. Despite initialling a 25-year-long inter-governmental framework agreement on selling Nepal’s electricity to the southern neighbour during the state visit of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal to India from May 31 to June 3, the agreement has not been signed yet.…
Report in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 5, 2023As a parliamentary panel prepares to finalise a bill to amend the Enforced Disappearances Enquiry, Truth and Reconciliation Commission Act, the insurgency victims, human rights activists and civil society members staged a sit-in in the Capital on Friday to pressure the committee to correct flawed provisions in the bill. Carrying placards with various slogans, they demanded the sub-committee of the Law and Justice Committee of the House of…
Report in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 5, 2023A fresh debate has begun on what Nepal can do with the report of the Eminent Persons’ Group on Nepal-India Relations should New Delhi continue to defer receiving it. Experts have suggested that Kathmandu can make it public through Parliament in case India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi continues to refuse to accept the suggestions of the expert panel on improving and updating his country’s relations with Nepal. An…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post,Aug 4, 2023US Ambassador Dean Thompson is learnt to have met Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Thursday. One of the envoy’s motives for the meeting was to confirm whether the prime minister would attend the upcoming 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, according to sources at the prime minister’s private secretariat. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has no information about the meeting. According…
by Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 3, 2023Office bearers of the ruling Nepali Congress, the largest parliamentary party, have concluded that there can be no changes in the categorisation of the insurgency-era human rights violations listed in the bill to amend the Enforced Disappearances Enquiry, Truth and Reconciliation Commission Act. A meeting of the top leaders chaired by President Sher Bahadur Deuba decided that prosecution would be pursued in cases of serious violations…
report in Nepalnews.com, Aug 3, 2023Eighteen leaders put forth their views on the brief report of Chairperson of the CPN (Maoist Centre) and Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal in the fourth plenary meeting of the party central committee that began on Wednesday. During the meeting held at Kamaladi-based Nepal Academy, the leaders expressed their views regarding restructure of the party, its working style, effectiveness and government’s performance. A central committee member Madhav Sapkota shared that…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 3, 2023The long-overdue central committee of the CPN (Maoist Centre) began in Kathmandu on Wednesday. Interestingly, the party made a last-minute decision to shelve its plan to livestream the proceedings of the meeting. Last month, the Nepali Congress became the first Nepali political party to livecast its central committee meeting’s proceedings. The Maoist meeting is expected to take various decisions related to the party’s organisation, government, and…