Report in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 14, 2023The Janamat Party joined the Pushpa Kamal Dahal-led government for the second time on Monday. President Ramchandra Paudel administered the oath to newly-appointed minister Anita Devi Sah. She has been assigned to the Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration. Vice President Ramsahay Prasad Yadav, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Speaker Devraj Ghimire and National Assembly chair Ganesh Prasad Timilsina among others were present at the oath-taking ceremony…
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by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 13, 2023Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal is preparing to bring the CK Raut-led Janamat Party back to his Cabinet. Dahal is likely to induct a Janamat minister in the government by Sunday evening, said Ramesh Malla, personal secretary to the prime minister. The prime minister has been talking to some ministers from his party to convince one of them to make way for the new minister,…
report in Nepalnews.com, Aug 3, 2023Eighteen leaders put forth their views on the brief report of Chairperson of the CPN (Maoist Centre) and Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal in the fourth plenary meeting of the party central committee that began on Wednesday. During the meeting held at Kamaladi-based Nepal Academy, the leaders expressed their views regarding restructure of the party, its working style, effectiveness and government’s performance. A central committee member Madhav Sapkota shared that…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, July 25, 2023Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, who chairs the CPN (Maoist Centre), the party that waged a decade-long people’s war, has refuted allegations that he used child combatants during the insurgency. Writing a response to a writ petition filed at the Supreme Court claiming that child combatants were used during the Maoist insurgency, Dahal refuted the allegations and said that no document of the peace process…
Report in The Kathmandu Post, June 14, 2023The Supreme Court has issued a show cause notice against Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal and former prime minister Baburam Bhattarai over the use of children in the 1996-2006 Maoist insurgency. A single bench of Justice Sapana Pradhan Malla asked Dahal and Bhattarai, the then supreme commander of the Maoist combatants and the chief of “people’s government,” respectively, to furnish in writing whether they recruited child soldiers. “The…
By Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, June 12, 2023Nepali politicians are in the habit of lying to cover their tracks or to spoil the reputation of their counterparts from other parties. They get away with it most of the time but sometimes these lies are so egregious they badly backfire. Take the latest jibes of CPN-UML chair and former prime minister KP Sharma Oli aimed at Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal. On Saturday, Oli…
Post Report in The Kathmandu Post, June 4, 2023 Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has claimed that his India visit has restored trust with Indian leadership at the political level. He said his India visit was largely successful, citing the signing of several agreements and understandings reached between the two sides. Prime Minister Dahal and Nepali delegation returned home on Saturday after completing the four-day official visit to the southern neighbour. “There have been some…
By Umesh Chauhan & Rajesh Mishra in The Kathmandu Post, June 02, 2023Even until Wednesday night, Nepal and India each seemed intent on making the other blink first in ice-cold negotiations. But by early (and rather hot) Delhi morning on Thursday, the atmosphere had warmed up a bit and the two sides sat down to sign a few vital agreements. Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s India visit failed to make the expected ‘breakthrough’ on the…
By Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, June 03, 2023While he was still new to mainstream politics after abandoning armed conflict, Prime Minister and CPN (Maoist Centre) chairperson Pushpa Kamal Dahal often repeated one term—“discontinuation of continuity”. Dahal claimed that his party would bring about changes in the way the country was run, in a departure from the traditional parties’ styles of work. While taking oath as prime minister for the first time in 2008,…