by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Sept 30, 2023Completing his half-month-long visit to China and New York, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal is returning home on Saturday from Chengdu. This is probably the first time that a Nepali prime minister has been out of the country for two weeks, amid several crises including doctors’ protests and teachers’ agitation, price rises ahead of big festivals, a struggling economy and poor governance. Also, the regular House…
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report in Nepalnews.com, Sept 28, 2023Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has said he had felt that the China visit was more successful than he had expected. Addressing a programme organized by Nepali Consulate General here in the course of his China visit, PM Dahal, argued that the success of his China visit would be a matter of interest. “I was wondering how the China visit would be as I arrived here directly from the US.…
byTika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Sept 5, 2023Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s announcement last month to reopen investigation into the 17-year-old Gaur massacre has made the Janata Samajbadi Party (JSP), a key partner in the ruling coalition, deeply suspicious of the prime minister’s intentions. Although Dahal, soon afterwards, seemed to have backtracked on his plan and assured JSP chair Upendra Yadav that there would be no such investigation, the party remains jittery. A meeting of…
report in The Daily Star, July 16, 2023Gonoforum President Dr Kamal Hossain yesterday urged the government to sit in a dialogue with all political parties immediately to make the upcoming parliamentary elections free, fair and participatory. Though it’s the constitutional right to cast vote, the country’s people have had to fight to establish their basic rights, he said. “People want to form a government through a democratic process by exercising their constitutional rights in a…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, July 11, 2023The meetings of the House of Representatives, which were obstructed by the opposition parties since last week over a controversial statement of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, resumed on Monday after the prime minister apologised to Parliament. On July 2, Dahal, while launching the book ‘Roads to the Valley: The Legacy of Sardar Pritam Singh in Nepal’, in Kathmandu, had said, “He [Singh] had once…
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…
By Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, March 26,2023The government is mulling sending an advance team to New Delhi to lay the ground for Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s upcoming visit to India, according to a top-ranking official at the Prime Minister’s Office. The team will jointly work with the Indian officials to set bilateral talks agenda even though the dates of Dahal’s trip are yet to be finalised. In the absence of a designated…
report in The Himalayan Times online, Feb 25, 2023Sudurpaschim Province Chief Minister Kamal Bahadur Shah has intensified attempts to secure confidence vote as the deadline for the same nears. After the previous government failed to secure mandatory trust vote leading to its downfall, Nepali Congress’ Shah, in capacity of the parliamentary party leader of the largest party in the provincial assembly, had, by default, become the chief minister. It is important to note that though…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Feb 24, 2023With a green signal from Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal and his party CPN (Moist Centre), the Nepali Congress is now gearing up to finalise its presidential candidate for the election slated for March 9. The nominations for presidential election will be filed on Saturday, but major parties are yet to decide their candidates. As the CPN-UML is expecting support from the current ruling parties—the Maoist…
by Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, February 9, 2023Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal and CPN-UML chair KP Sharma Oli have agreed to hold a meeting of the High-Level Political Mechanism, a body comprising the chiefs of the seven parties in the ruling coalition, soon. The two top leaders, who held a one-on-one at Oli’s residence in Balkot on Wednesday morning, also agreed to discuss the presidential election at the upcoming meeting of the mechanism,…