Report in The Kathmandu Post, Feb 8, 2023Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal held a meeting with CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli at the latter’s residence in Balkot on Wednesday. Meetings between the two leaders have ramped up after Rabi Lamichhane-led Rastriya Swatantra Party quit the government. The meeting between Dahal and Oli comes at a time when the elections of the President and Vice President are approaching. The Election Commission has slated March 9 for…
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by Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post, Feb 6, 2023Nepal and China are scheduled to hold another round of discussions later this month on the development of a cross-border transmission line between the two countries. A Joint Technical Group comprising representatives of the Nepal Electricity Authority and the State Grid Corporation of China had previously held two rounds of talks in China and Nepal, respectively, on the issue before the Covid-19 pandemic. Another meeting…
By Ram Kumar Kamat in The Himalayan Times, Feb 6, 2023The Rabi Lamichhane-led Rastriya Swatantra Party, which has 19 seats in the House of Representatives, today (Feb 5) decided to quit the government over Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s refusal to give the home portfolio to the party. The party will, however, continue supporting the government. A joint meeting of the party’s central committee and parliamentary party held here today decided to recall its ministers…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Feb 5, 2023The ruling CPN (Maoist Centre) has decided to coordinate with ‘like-minded’ parties for the presidential election if major parties decline its proposal of finding a candidate based on national consensus. According to some leaders, this decision was taken by the party’s Standing Committee meeting that concluded on Saturday. With this decision, the Maoist Centre seems to be inching closer to Nepali Congress while distancing itself…
by Purushottam Poudel in The Kathmandu Post, Feb 5, 2023The CPN (Unified Socialist) party in its political document has criticised the country’s communist forces while also being critical of the international democratic forces. The document sympathises with the northern neighbour, China, and its flagship project, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The document, which was presented to the party’s central committee on Saturday, criticised forums that are supported by democratic countries. A section of UML…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Feb 5th, 2023Coalition politics has greatly benefitted Pushpa Kamal Dahal, the incumbent prime minister and chairman of the CPN (Maoist Centre), a party that has been in continuous decline after it emerged victorious in the 2008 Constituent Assembly elections. The Maoist party’s growing challenges in parliamentary democracy and Dahal’s need to constantly manoeuvre to stay relevant in national politics run parallel. While his party was placed third in…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Feb 3, 2023The seven-party ruling coalition seems to be in a serious crisis within just 40 days of the formation of the Pushpa Kamal Dahal-led government. The Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), a major partner in the ruling coalition, has threatened to pull out of the government after the prime minister refused to reinstate party president Rabi Lamichhane as home minister. The joint meeting of the RSP’s Central…
report on Nepalnews.com Rastriya Swatantra Party Chairman Rabi Lamichhane met Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal and demanded that the leadership of the Home Ministry be given to his party. According to sources, Chairman Lamichhane had warned that if the party did not get the seat at the Home Ministry, the country’s government would dissolve . UML, Maoist Center RSP, RPP, Janata Samajwadi Party, Janmat Party and Nepal Communist Party agreed to form the government. The…
By Ram Kumar Kamat in The Himalayan Times,February 3, 2023The Rabi Lamichhane-led Rastriya Swatantra Party will wait for two days before deciding whether or not it should leave the government over home portfolio. RSP Spokesperson Mukul Dhakal told mediapersons after his party’s central committee met parliamentary party lawmakers that Lamichhane received calls from Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, CPN-UML Chair KP Sharma Oli, and Rastriya Prajatantra Party Chair Rajendra Lingden during the meeting requesting him…
by Anup Ojha in The Kathmandu Post,Feb 2, 2023After the January 25 death of Prem Prasad Acharya, who had set himself on fire in front of the Parliament building at New Baneshwar a day earlier by accusing the government, in an over 6000-word Facebook post, of promoting corruption and making things difficult for entrepreneurs, scores of activists and commoners took to the streets under the banner “Kathmandu Uprising” as they rallied behind Acharya’s cause. The…
Report in The Kathmandu Post,Feb 2, 2023The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is preparing to review Nepal’s foreign policy document unveiled in December, 2020. Talking to reporters at the ministry on Wednesday, Minister for Foreign Affairs Bimala Rai Paudyal said that after consultations inside the ministry and with major political parties, the policy will be updated and published for wider use. The then KP Sharma Oli government in 2020 had unveiled the 31-page document that encompasses…