by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, May 31, 2023With an agenda packed with meetings and interactions, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal is heading for India on Wednesday afternoon on a four-day official visit at the invitation of his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi. Besides his set template of meetings and engagements, Dahal now has a new issue to deal with—a mural depicting ancient India in the newly inaugurated Indian parliament building. Leader of the main…
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report in The Kathmandu Post, May 31, 2023At the invitation of the ruling CPN (Maoist Centre), Wang Xiaohui, Communist Party of China (CPC) Secretary of the Sichuan Province, arrived in Kathmandu on Tuesday evening. Wang is among senior CPC leaders to visit Kathmandu after the formation of the Pushpa Kamal Dahal government in December last year. The former deputy head of the publicity division of the CPC is currently a central committee member of the…
By Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, May 23, 2023With Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal all set to go to India at the end of May, officials on both sides are busy giving final touches to the visit’s agenda. Though preparations for Dahal’s first foreign trip since becoming prime minister on December 25 are in full swing, the two sides are yet to make a formal announcement of the date. Foreign Minister NP Saud has…
by Anil Giri in Kathmandu Post, May 20, 2023Five months after assuming office in December last year, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal is all set to begin his maiden visit to India. He starts his sojourn on May 31. Senior government officials confirmed to the Post that Dahal will undertake a four-day official visit to the southern neighbour at the invitation of his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi. Dahal is expected to call on Indian President…
By Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, May 19, 2023Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Thursday said the government was unable to publicise the Lal Commission report as the Supreme Court barred it from doing so. The report was produced by a team led by former Supreme Court justice Girish Chandra Lal after a detailed investigation into the months of protests in the run-up to and following the promulgation of the constitution in September…
By Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, May 03, 2023Prior to his appointment as prime minister, Pushpa Kamal Dahal had announced at public functions that he would form a high-level commission to investigate the properties of people who had held public office since 1990. Although Dahal seems to have made the announcement with an intention of garnering public support instead of a genuine intention to curb corruption, experts welcomed the proclamation of the prime…
By Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, May 02, 2023The wirter is a reporter covering national politics for The Kathmandu Post.All eyes are now on the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) after it trounced the big political parties in two of the three constituencies in the recently-concluded bypolls. The party has given continuity to its support to the Pushpa Kamal Dahal-led government. With the RSP chair Rabi Lamichhane and Prime Minister Dahal holding two back-to-back talks,…
Report in The Kathmandu Post, April 22, 2023After the failure of the Constitutional Council in nominating a candidate for chief justice, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Friday had a meeting with CPN-UML chair KP Sharma Oli to discuss nominations and endorsement of the bills in parliament. Dahal’s attempt was to woo Oli, who is the leader of the main opposition, to ensure that the next meeting of the council would be fruitful while also…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Apr 16, 2023The much talked about India visit of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has been deferred until May. Although the Indian side has already communicated the date of Dahal’s state visit, the two sides have agreed not to disclose it until some agendas get a concrete shape, officials from the Prime Minister’s Office and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told the Post. After the Indian side indicated…
By Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, April 14, 2023CPN (Maoist Centre) chair and Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has said he has never taken responsibility for 5,000 insurgency-era killings. Furnishing a written clarification to the Supreme Court through his lawyer, Dahal has argued that the petitions demanding investigation against him for insurgency-era killings should be scrapped. Dahal claimed that his statement three years ago—that he was ready to take moral responsibility for 5,000 deaths—was…
By Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, April 12, 2023Nepal has not had a dedicated foreign minister since February 27 after the CPN-UML exited the Pushpa Kamal Dahal government. Experts said not having a foreign minister for such a long time gives a message that the Nepal government is not serious about safeguarding national interest—at a time of fast-changing geo-political shifts around the globe. For the past month and half, Prime Minister Dahal has himself…