by Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, July 13, 2023The government on July 3 extended the terms of the two transitional justice commissions that remain ineffective for a year without their office bearers. Through the seventh extension in their terms, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Commission of Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons have got a new lease of life—their terms have been extended until January 24, 2024. As the law governing the commissions…
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by Shiva Puri & Ajit Tiwari in The Kathmandu Post, July 13, 2023The growing hostility between Mahendra Mahato and Sunita Singh Budhathoki, mayor and deputy mayor of Mithila Municipality in Dhanusha, has affected important development projects and daily administrative works of the local unit. Mahato, who was elected mayor on a Nepali Congress ticket, had postponed the municipal council meeting scheduled for June 25 after knowing that Deputy Mayor Budhathoki, who is from the UML,…
Report in The Kathmandu Post online, July 12, 2023A protest was organised outside the Kathmandu Metropolitan City office in Sundhara on Wednesday against the municipal police for misbehaving with and manhandling street vendors. The protest was organised by ‘Enough is Enough,’ a youth-led non-violent campaign. The demonstrations came on the heels of a video circulated on social media showing municipal police of the KMC manhandling a vendor. The police action attracted widespread criticism from the…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post online, July 12, 2023On Saturday, Gagan Thapa, a popular Nepali Congress leader and one of the party’s two general secretaries, made an interesting announcement: “The need of the hour is to make myself or any other leader from my generation the new prime minister of the country.” The announcement created a ripple of sorts in political circles—especially in the country’s largest party. Most Congress leaders doubt the…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, July 11, 2023The struggle against the naming of Province 1 as Koshi by indigenous groups continues unabated as the newly appointed Chief Minister Uddav Thapa commented that a change in the province’s name is not possible anytime soon. A day after the province got its new chief minister from the ruling coalition, protesters rallied on motorcycles in Okhaldhunga demanding an identity-based name for the province. As soon…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, July 11, 2023The meetings of the House of Representatives, which were obstructed by the opposition parties since last week over a controversial statement of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, resumed on Monday after the prime minister apologised to Parliament. On July 2, Dahal, while launching the book ‘Roads to the Valley: The Legacy of Sardar Pritam Singh in Nepal’, in Kathmandu, had said, “He [Singh] had once…
by Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, July 10, 2023An ongoing blame game between the ruling and opposition parties over Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s controversial statement has led to yet another postponement of a lower house meeting on Sunday. Hours before the meeting, leaders of the Nepali Congress, the CPN-UML and the Maoist Centre had agreed that the opposition would allow Prime Minister Dahal to provide his clarification in Parliament on the statement, thereby…
by Deo Narayan Shah in The Kathmandu Post, July 10, 2023In less than four days of new government formation in Koshi Province, discontent has started brewing in the ruling coalition. CPN (Unified Socialist), a coalition partner, has expressed its dissatisfaction over the Cabinet expansion. Unified Socialist leader Rajendra Kumar Rai accused the chief minister of allocating the ministerial berths, unilaterally. He said an environment of consensus and cooperation within the alliance has been foiled and…
by Tika R Pradhan in the Kathmandu Post, July 9, 2023It’s been eight years since the promulgation of Nepal’s new constitution, but the implementation of federalism remains on the backburner due to a lack of political will at the federal and provincial levels. Politicians leading the provincial governments continue to complain to their seniors in the federal government about the lack of devolution of constitutionally-guaranteed power. It took the federal government years to pass the…