By Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post,29 OCt 2022The Nepali Congress aims to lay emphasis on securing the national interest while conducting foreign policy, according to the party’s commitment paper. Party president Sher Bahadur Deuba, is all set to unveil the commitment paper (manifesto) on Saturday. “Due to the festival, many of our leaders were busy celebrating Tihar,” said Jeevan Pariyar, joint general secretary of the party. Deuba, who is also the prime minister, is…
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report on Nepalnews.com, OCT 28, 2022The National Planning Commission (NPC) has recommended to the government to operate one concessional food store in every municipality. The Commission has recommended this through the ‘Supply Policy 2069 Review Study Report 2079’ in order to implement the fundamental rights of citizens regarding food security. Stating that most of the provisions of the national supply policy implemented a decade ago could not be effectively implemented, the Commission said it was…
report on Nepalnews.com, OCT 28, 2022The curfew clamped in Bhangaha Municipality in the district stays intact for preventing religious harmony from being disturbed, District Administration Office, Mahottari said. The District Administration had on Thursday issued curfew orders in designated areas around Padariya settlement at Bhangaha-8 to control rioting that occurred in the settlement. The curfew continues today as well. The Administration has issued indefinite curfew orders for the entire Padariya settlement to the south of…
report in Nepalnews.com. Oct 27President of Nepali Congress Sher Bahadur Deuba has pledged to address the grievances of Bhaktapur Congress workers after the election. In a meeting with party workers in Madhyapurthimi, Deuba said due to the compulsion of the alliance the provincial assembly (2) seat of Bhaktapur had to be given to other parties. This will be compensated after the election. On the occasion, NC President Deuba made it clear that since it was…
report in The Himalayan Times, Oct 24, 2022 at 02:01 pm• PSP MANIFESTO Directly elected prez, primary election and right to recall’ among other agendas, included Former prime minister and Chairman of People’s Socialist Party Baburam Bhattarai has said that there are policy and ideological discrepancies in the CPN-Maoist Centre on some issues. Bhattarai’s party is heading for the upcoming election of the House of Representatives and Provincial Assembly with the election symbol of the…
report in Nepalnews.com, 26 Oct 2022Nepal Workers and Peasants Party (NWPP) Chairperson Narayan Man Bijukchhe made public his party’s manifesto in view of the upcoming November 20 House of Representatives and Provincial Assembly election. At a press conference organized by NWPP here on Tuesday, party chairperson Bijukchhe launched the manifesto that pledges to provide free education up to the secondary level and make university education accessible. Stating that the major opposition party-CPN (UML)- involved in…
by Binod Ghimire & Thira Lal Bhusal in The Kathmandu Post, Oct 24, 2022With less than a month until the voting day for November 20 elections, the CPN-UML, like other parties, is working in a full swing to devise election strategy and its execution. The UML that emerged as the largest party from the previous election fought forming a left alliance and has split now and is in an election race without forming nationwide alliance…
by Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post, Oct 24, 2022Nepal is nowhere close to defaulting on domestic and foreign debts but the ripples from the crises in Sri Lanka, Pakistan and other countries nearby are already being felt. Sri Lanka was the first South Asian country to stop paying its foreign bondholders this year, burdened by unwieldy food and fuel costs that stoked protests and political chaos leading to the end of the Rajapaksa…
By Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post,23 Oct 2022The proposal of the Indigenous Nationalities Commission to revise the existing reservation system in state agencies has been criticised by representatives of the ethnic communities. The commission in its latest report has suggested revision in the system saying that the same individuals and groups have been benefitting since the system was first introduced in 2007. The representatives from the communities and experts closely studying the matter…
By Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post,23 Oct 2022Despite growing voices for fair representation of women in elections, only nine percent of the total first-past-the-post (FPTP) candidates for November polls are women. The major political parties are particularly to be blamed for this sad state of affairs. The CPN-UML has fielded 11, the CPN (Maoist Centre) nine, the Nepali Congress five, and the CPN (Unified Socialist) and the Rastriya Janamorcha one woman candidate each. Two…
By Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post,23 Oct 2022As the federal and provincial elections close in, the worries of Nepali Congress, the main party in the ruling alliance, have grown. If not mitigated on time, intra-party rift and betrayal, say party leaders, could harm the party’s poll prospects next month. The party is this time filing candidacies in only 91 out of 165 directly-elected House of Representatives seats, putting it under intense pressure to win…