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‘Non-Stop Movement’ After Oct 28: BNP hesitant to go for hartals, blockades:

By Mohammad Al-Masum Molla in The Daily Star, Oct 21. 2023BNP leaders have recently been making threats of non-stop and tough agitation, but the party appears to be in a dilemma over such programmes as hartal and roadblocks. Party insiders say they are hesitant to go for hartal and blockade-like programmes as the arson attacks during their movement centring the January 5, 2014, election drew flak from home and abroad. At the same time, many…

Ruling coalition cracks as Congress locks up presidency

by Anil Giri & Tika R Pradhan in Kathmandu Post, Feb 25, 2023Exactly two months after CPN-UML chair KP Oli rescued the prime ministerial ambitions of his CPN (Maoist Centre) counterpart Pushpa Kamal Dahal by ambushing the pre-polls five-party coalition, Nepali Congress appears to have again prised Dahal away from KP Sharma Oli’s embrace. After an over two-hour-long meeting with Prime Minister Dahal on Friday, Oli had departed Baluwatar bitterly disappointed as the Nepali Congress…