report in Dhaka Tribune, May 17, 2023BNP has called upon the country’s people to boycott the upcoming elections to five city corporations under the current government. BNP standing committee at their virtual meeting on Monday made the call to vote to implement the party’s earlier decision of not participating in the five city polls to be conducted by the current Election Commissioner under the Awami League government. “The meeting feels that the City Corporation elections…
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By Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, May 01, 2023Former Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai, who was among the chief ideologues of the decade-long Maoist movement, is currently chair of the Nepal Samajbadi Party. His party contested with the symbol of CPN (Maoist Centre) in the November 2022 elections, after severing ties with Upendra Yadav-led Janata Samajbadi Party. Following the promulgation of the constitution, as a political experiment, Bhattarai ditched the mother Maoist party and…
By Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, April 28, 2023More than a month after a change in the ruling coalition ahead of the presidential elections, the CPN-UML has lost power in two provinces, resulting in the appointment of new chief ministers on Thursday. Nepali Congress provincial assembly leader Surendra Raj Pandey has been appointed the new chief minister of Gandaki Province while another Congress assembly leader Dilli Bahadur Chaudhary was appointed the chief minister…
By Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, April 25, 2-23With the final results of by-elections in Tanahun-1 and the initial vote count in Chitwan-2 and Bara-2, the message is clear to the traditional forces and parties—either you change your work approach or suffer further losses in coming elections. The largest party Nepali Congress, whose candidate Ramchandra Poudel, was elected from Tanahun-1 with a good margin last November, lost the seat to the new Rastriya Swatantra…
report in Prothom Alo, Apr 17, 2023Foreign minister Abdul Momen on Sunday said Dhaka has sought cooperation from Washington to ensure participation of all political parties in the upcoming national election. It is not possible for the government and the election commission to conduct a fair election single-handedly. Political parties and people must have sincerity and commitment, and the government has sought cooperation from the USA to that end, he said. The foreign minister made…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Apr 4, 2023With several prominent politicians and noted personalities registering their nominations, the by-elections scheduled for April 23 in three constituencies in three districts have garnered considerable public interest. Candidates registered their nominations on Monday for the by-elections to be held at Bara-2, Chitwan-2 and Tanahun-1, as asked by the Election Commission. Of the three constituencies, the race in Bara-2 is perhaps the most intriguing. Three regional…
by Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, March 16, 2023Frequent changes in the power equation are not new to Nepali politics where political instability remains a persistent problem. Following last month’s change in the composition of the ruling coalition in Kathmandu, provincial governments are set to yet another change in leadership in just five months since the general elections. Until a few weeks ago, the federal government was led by CPN (Maoist Centre), with the…
AFP report, Jan 05, 2023COLOMBO : Crisis-hit Sri Lanka Wednesday announced its first nationwide elections since its president fled and resigned in the face of widespread protests, in what will be a test of popularity for his successor. Local government polls will be held before the end of February, officials said, after they were delayed by a year due to the pandemic. President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who replaced his deposed predecessor Gotabaya Rajapaksa, faces potential embarrassment…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Nov 27, 2022In their first meeting after the elections to the federal and provincial legislatures, Nepali Congress President and Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and CPN (Maoist Centre) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Saturday agreed to carry forward the ruling alliance. With broad contours of the shape of federal and provincial parliaments becoming clear, Congress, which is leading the FPTP vote-count, and CPN-UML, which is in second, have…
by Mansoor Malik in Dawn, Oct 23rd, 2022LAHORE: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday rebuffed the idea of early elections, declaring that the PDM government had no intention to hold general elections before the end of its constitutional term. “The general elections are still 11 months away and we have no intention to hold elections until the country’s economy comes back on track… We will work day in and day out for 11 months, bring…