by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 10, 2023A crack has opened up in the ruling coalition following the signing on Tuesday of a five-point agreement between the home ministry and the Gaur Murder Victims Struggle Committee. At least 27 Maoist cadres were killed in Gaur of Rautahat district on March 21, 2007 in an ugly confrontation with the cadres of the then Madheshi Janadhikar Forum led by Upendra Yadav. Yadav now chairs the…
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by Deo Narayan Shah in The Kathmandu Post, July 10, 2023In less than four days of new government formation in Koshi Province, discontent has started brewing in the ruling coalition. CPN (Unified Socialist), a coalition partner, has expressed its dissatisfaction over the Cabinet expansion. Unified Socialist leader Rajendra Kumar Rai accused the chief minister of allocating the ministerial berths, unilaterally. He said an environment of consensus and cooperation within the alliance has been foiled and…
Report in The Kathmandu Post,July 04, 2023Leaders of the ruling coalition in Kathmandu have decided to form a new government in Koshi Province under the leadership of Nepali Congress. A meeting of coalition leaders held at the prime minister’s residence in Baluwatar on Monday also decided that the Congress’ Uddab Thapa would be a candidate to lead the provincial government. Rajendra Pandey, acting chair of CPN (Unified Socialist), who attended the meeting said the top…
By Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, May 01, 2023The suspense over the Rastriya Swatantra Party’s next move endures. As matters stand, the RSP leadership is keeping its cards too close to its chest—whether it will join the Pushpa Kamal Dahal-led government or withdraw its support, remains to be seen. The party registered impressive victories in two of the three constituencies in the by-elections. “The prime minister had called to congratulate me. He also inquired…
By Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, Apr 18, 2023Five months after the major elections held in November last year, the provincial governments are yet to get a full shape—some have been hanging by a thread after being turned into minority governments while in others the competing interests of the parties in the ruling coalition have complicated the process. The CPN-UML has pulled out of the governments in Sudurpaschim, Madhesh, Bagmati and Karnali, but the…
By Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, April 17, 2023It has been more than a week since the CPN-UML pulled out of the Madhesh provincial government. Three coalition partners—Nepali Congress, CPN (Unified Socialist) and Loktantrik Samajbadi Party—are yet to join the government led by Chief Minister Saroj Kumar Yadav of Janata Samajbadi Party that includes ministers from the CPN (Maoist Centre) and Janamat Party. The exit of CPN-UML, the second-largest party in the federal parliament,…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Apr 8, 2023The main opposition CPN-UML has taken a stance against endorsing the bill to amend the transitional justice law through a fast-track process in Parliament, even as the ruling coalition wants to pass it without any further delay. Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Sher Bahadur Deuba, president of Nepali Congress, the largest parliamentary party, held talks with the leader of the opposition KP Sharma Oli…
By Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, April 08, 2023A day after the 10-party ruling coalition unveiled its common minimum programme signed by its leaders, the Rastriya Jana Morcha, one of the coalition partners, said it does not approve of the government’s programme. Issuing a press statement, Jana Morcha chair Chitra Bahadur KC not only expressed his party’s displeasure with the coalition’s common programme, but also objected to the ‘unauthorised’ use of his signature…
Report in The Kathmandu Post, April 7, 2023With the largest party in the ruling coalition, the Nepali Congress, unable to nominate its four ministerial candidates, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has been struggling to give full shape to the Cabinet. The last time the prime minister expanded the cabinet was on Friday. The coalition has allocated eight ministries to the Congress. Party president Sher Bahadur Deuba is waiting for the Shekhar Koirala-Gagan Thapa faction to…
By Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, April 01,2023After struggling for weeks, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal finally expanded his Cabinet on Friday, but he couldn’t resolve all the dissatisfaction among the coalition partners. Within hours of the President administering the oath of office to four new ministers at the President’s Office, a sitting minister Abdul Khan of the Janamat Party tendered his resignation after the Ministry of Industry his party was hoping to…
report in Nepalnews online, Mar 31, 2023Ruling coalition members—the Nepali Congress, CPN (Maoist Centre) and CPN (Unified Socialist), among others held a meeting on Cabinet expansion on Thursday evening. The Prime Minister’s secretariat has informed that the allocation of ministries would be finalized and an oath-taking held on Friday. The meeting was attended by Prime Minister and CPN (Maoist Centre) Chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’, Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba, Vice President Purna Bahadur…