by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Nov 27, 2022Leaders who were favoured by chiefs of the major parties have been largely rejected by people during the November 20 federal and provincial polls. Both the general secretaries of CPN-UML and CPN (Maoist Centre), Shankar Pokhrel and Dev Gurung, respectively, were defeated in the elections. Both Pokhrel and Gurung were handpicked by their respective party chairs. Home Minister Balkrishna Khand, who is close to Nepali…
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by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Nov 27, 2022Six days after the November 20 federal and provincial polls, counting of the first-past-the-post (FPTP) votes is in the final stage and as such tentative strength of the parties in the federal lower house is becoming clear. As of this writing, as many as 151 of the 165 FPTP seats have already been declared while counting on remaining ones continues. (Counting at the three constituencies—Syangja-2,…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Nov 27, 2022In their first meeting after the elections to the federal and provincial legislatures, Nepali Congress President and Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and CPN (Maoist Centre) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Saturday agreed to carry forward the ruling alliance. With broad contours of the shape of federal and provincial parliaments becoming clear, Congress, which is leading the FPTP vote-count, and CPN-UML, which is in second, have…
by Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, Nov 26, 2022One swallow does not make a summer. But the latest federal election results from Saptari-2 constituency does hint at a larger change—caste-based voting in Madhesh is on the decline. Janamat Party chair CK Raut secured a landslide victory in Saptari-2, with a wide margin of 18,063 votes, beating Janata Samajbadi Party chair Upendra Yadav in the process. Raut got 35,042 votes against Yadav’s 16,979 votes. Yadav…
by Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, Nov 26, 2022As the counting of votes of Sunday’s federal and provincial elections nears conclusion, the CPN-UML looks set to become the second largest party after the Nepali Congress. The largest leftist party is poised to win some 45 out of the 165 first-past-the-post (FPTP) seats in the House of Representatives and 92 out of the 330 FPTP seats in provincial assemblies. The election results announced so far…
by Purushottam Poudel in The Kathmandu Post, November 25, 2022.Sujita Koirala’s family from Kaushaltar in Bhaktapur had been voting for the mainstream political parties over the years. However, this time, her family couldn’t remain untouched by the wave in favour of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP). She and her husband voted for the new party because her daughter living in Sydney, Australia urged them to do so. “My daughter specifically urged us to vote for…
by Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, November 25, 2022.The Rastriya Prajatantra Party-Nepal led by Kamal Thapa emerged as the fourth largest party from the second Constituent Assembly in 2013, winning 24 seats. The party cashed in on pro-Hindu and pro-monarchy sentiments to secure a significant number of votes, mainly under the proportional representation (PR) category. Thapa used his party’s strength to bargain for power. The party first joined the KP Sharma Oli-government in 2015,…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post , November 25, 2022CPN-UML chair and former prime minister KP Sharma Oli on Thursday telephoned CPN (Maoist Centre) chief Pushpa Kamal Dahal and proposed that they work together. Oli, who is in Jhapa, called up Dahal on Thursday and they talked for over 15 minutes, said an aide to Dahal. Dahal reportedly told Oli to wait until the final election results are out. Oli also rang up Prime…
by Purushottam Poudel in The Kathmandu Post, Nov 24, 2022As the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) prepares to enter the federal parliament, people have started discussing how the party will perform in the legislative. The opinion seems to be divided. While the party’s wins have given an encouraging message to large sections of society, mainly youths, as all its candidates are young professionals, at the same time its lack of policy-level clarity on vital political issues…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, : November 24, 2022 The Nepali Congress, the grand old party of Nepali politics, has a long history of a troika in the top party leadership exercising influence in the party’s decision-making. After the restoration of democracy in 1990, the Congress saw the first batch of its troika in Ganeshman Singh, Krishna Prasad Bhattarai and Girija Prasad Koirala who called all the shots in the party. The centrality…
report in The Himalayan Times, Nov 24, 2022 at 07:50 amKATHMANDU, Nov 23The Nepali Congress continues to lead in more parliamentary first-past-the-post constituencies than any other party three days after counting of votes for the general elections began. According to the data compiled until 8:00pm today, the NC was leading in 40 parliamentary constituencies and had won 19; the CPN-UML was close behind with lead in 38 constituencies and six wins; the CPN-Maoist Centre was…