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Supreme Court orders its administration to take petitions against Prime Minister Dahal

Report in The Kathmandu Post, March 4,The Supreme Court on Friday ordered its administration to register two writ petitions against CPN (Maoist Centre) chair and prime minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal for claiming responsibility of 5,000 insurgency-era deaths three years ago. Hearing a case filed by two advocates against the decision of the Supreme Court administration to reject their petitions, a division bench of justices Ishwor Prasad Khatiwada and Hari Prasad Phuyal ordered the court administration…

Maoist rank and file prefer left alliance, not so their chair

by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Nov 29, 2022When CPN (Maoist Centre) General Secretary Dev Gurung congratulated his electoral rival in Lamjung, Prithvi Subba Gurung of the CPN-UML, upon the latter’s election as federal lawmaker from the district on Friday, he also floated a proposal to jointly lobby for a left alliance. UML Deputy General Secretary Prithvi Subba Gurung, who beat Maoist General Secretary Gurung, accepted the proposal. But despite the lobbying by…