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…
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by Tika R Pradhan in the Kathmandu Post, Feb 17, 2023As the nomination day for the presidential election is approaching, the third largest party that leads the current government with the backing of the CPN-UML and later got the support of other parties including the Nepali Congress, the CPN (Maoist Centre) seems inching closer to the Congress. Some leaders of the party said the Maoist Centre could support the Nepali Congress in the presidential polls…
by Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, Feb 10, 2023In what is a major blow to the ruling coalition, Nepali Congress provincial parliamentary party leader Kamal Bahadur Shah was appointed chief minister of Sudurpaschim Province on Thursday. Provincial head Devraj Joshi appointed Shah as chief minister after the incumbent, Rajendra Singh Rawal of the CPN-UML, failed to secure the confidence of the provincial assembly earlier in the day. “As the number of lawmakers saying ‘no’…
Report in The Kathmandu Post, January 24, 2023The Nepali Congress, the largest party in Parliament that has been lobbying for amending the contradictory provisions in the law relating to presidential election, has demanded that the election be held on time. After giving a confidence vote to Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on January 10, the Nepali Congress is attempting to break the ruling UML-Maoist alliance and expecting Dahal’s support for Congress’ bid for presidency. “We…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 23, 2023After failing to get the support of the ruling CPN (Maoist Centre) on the elections of Speaker and deputy Speaker, the Shekhar Koirala-Gagan Thapa faction of the Nepali Congress has said the decision of the largest party to give a confidence vote to Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal was a mistake. As the Congress is preparing for the meeting of its Central Working Committee scheduled…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 20, 2023The leaders of Nepali Congress, the largest party in the House of Representatives, did not take kindly to their then-ally Pushpa Kamal Dahal, chair of the CPN (Maoist Centre), joining hands with the CPN-UML to become prime minister on December 25. Since then, the party has been trying to divide the new UML-led seven-party alliance that elected Dahal the prime minister and also formed governments…
by Purushottam Poudel in The Kathmandu Post,Jan 13th, 2023 The second-rung leaders of the Nepali Congress including general secretaries Gagan Thapa and Bishwa Parkash Sharma have stood against almost all major political decisions taken by party president Sher Bahadur Deuba in the past one year. Yet they failed to build much pressure on Deuba and the establishment faction, let alone force the party chief to review any of his decisions. This kind of powerlessness was…
Report in The Kathmandu Post,Jan 13th, 2023The largest party in the House of Representatives, Nepali Congress, which is facing criticism for giving its confidence vote to the Pushpa Kamal Dahal-led government, is eying the key positions of President and Speaker. Normally in parliamentary democracy, the main opposition does not give the vote of confidence to the prime minister, but the Congress extended the trust vote to Dahal, which is now courting controversy. Though Congress leaders…
by Purushottam Poudel in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 11, 2023.Despite the opposition of both party general secretaries—Gagan Thapa and Bishwa Parkash Sharma—as well as leaders Pradip Paudel, Arjun Narsingh KC, Prakash Man Singh and Bal Bahadur KC, the Nepali Congress on Tuesday gave its vote of confidence to the government of CPN (Maoist Centre) chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal. With the support of the Congress as well as other parties, Dahal garnered 268 votes in the…
by Purushottam Poudel in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 9, 2023.With the Nepali Congress, the largest party in Parliament, unable to form a new government, a question is being raised: Can the Congress revive itself under the leadership of its current chief Sher Bahadur Deuba? Congress President Deuba, who is considered a canny politician who can cobble together even unwieldy coalitions, however, this time failed to turn the situation in his favour. Though the Congress-led electoral…
report in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 21, 2022Voting is underway at the parliamentary party office of the Nepali Congress in Singha Durbar to elect its parliamentary party leader. Gagan Thapa, the 46-year-old general secretary of the Nepali Congress, is running against the 76-year-old party president Sher Bahadur Deuba, who is also the incumbent prime minister, for the position of parliamentary party leader in the election today. The winner of the parliamentary party election will be…