by Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, .January 14th, 2023The task forces of the Janata Samajbadi Party and the CPN (Unified Socialist) formed to negotiate a unification between the two parties met on Thursday. Soon after the November election results were out, both the parties had begun talks on the possibilities of a unity between the two organisations. They are trying to clinch an agreement on the party ideology, party name and leadership, say the…
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by Purushottam Poudel in The Kathmandu Post,Jan 13th, 2023 The second-rung leaders of the Nepali Congress including general secretaries Gagan Thapa and Bishwa Parkash Sharma have stood against almost all major political decisions taken by party president Sher Bahadur Deuba in the past one year. Yet they failed to build much pressure on Deuba and the establishment faction, let alone force the party chief to review any of his decisions. This kind of powerlessness was…
Report in The Kathmandu Post,Jan 13th, 2023The largest party in the House of Representatives, Nepali Congress, which is facing criticism for giving its confidence vote to the Pushpa Kamal Dahal-led government, is eying the key positions of President and Speaker. Normally in parliamentary democracy, the main opposition does not give the vote of confidence to the prime minister, but the Congress extended the trust vote to Dahal, which is now courting controversy. Though Congress leaders…
by Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 12, 2023The Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) says it has sought approval from the Indian authorities to export 40-50 MW of electricity to Bangladesh through India’s existing transmission infrastructure, in line with an agreement reached between Nepal and Bangladesh in August. The two countries in August last year had decided to request the southern neighbour to allow export of 40-50MW of electricity from Nepal to Bangladesh in…
by Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 11, 2023The Department of Customs collected just Rs24.71 billion in revenue until January 9 in the month of Paush (mid-December 2022 to mid-January 2023) against the month’s target of Rs58 billion, suggesting a clear struggle of the government in meeting its revenue target. The situation of revenue collection appears to be worsening as the government feels the pressure to arrange resources to finance the growing administrative…
by Purushottam Poudel in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 11, 2023.Despite the opposition of both party general secretaries—Gagan Thapa and Bishwa Parkash Sharma—as well as leaders Pradip Paudel, Arjun Narsingh KC, Prakash Man Singh and Bal Bahadur KC, the Nepali Congress on Tuesday gave its vote of confidence to the government of CPN (Maoist Centre) chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal. With the support of the Congress as well as other parties, Dahal garnered 268 votes in the…
by Arjun Poudel in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 10, 2023On Monday, a six-year-old boy from Ward-7 of Nepalgunj Sub-metropolitan City was taken to a nearby health facility for immunisation. When health workers inquired about his vaccination status, his parents said that their son has never had any vaccine in his life. “We were not surprised,” Rajan Shahi, a public health inspector, who has been deployed in wards of the Sub-metropolis to study the status of…
Report in The Kathmandu Post,Jan 10, 2023The CPN (Unified Socialist) on Tuesday morning decided to vote in favour of the trust motion by Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal. A secretariat meeting of the party decided to support the government, said spokesperson Jagannath Khatiwada. “The party has decided to conditionally support the government but remain in the opposition,” said spokesperson Khatiwada. The party has 10 members in the House of Representatives. Prime Minister Dahal is seeking…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 10, 2023The ruling alliance has promised to play an effective role to bring back territories encroached by India. According to the ruling coalition’s common minimum programme document unveiled on Monday, the government will try to bring back the territories of Limpiyadhura, Kalapani and Lipulek that are currently occupied by India. The government will strengthen territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence, according to the common minimum programme of the…
by Purushottam Poudel in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 9, 2023.With the Nepali Congress, the largest party in Parliament, unable to form a new government, a question is being raised: Can the Congress revive itself under the leadership of its current chief Sher Bahadur Deuba? Congress President Deuba, who is considered a canny politician who can cobble together even unwieldy coalitions, however, this time failed to turn the situation in his favour. Though the Congress-led electoral…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 9, 2023CPN-UML parliamentary party leader of Province 1 Hikmat Karki has been appointed chief minister of the province. With the ruling coalition forging a power-sharing deal and seven provincial heads setting the deadline for the parties to lay claim to chief ministership, all provinces are set to get new governments within this week. “Today, the meeting of top leaders of coalition partners settled on a package…