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Posts tagged as “Kamal Dahal”

Cabinet okays eight deals for Dahal’s China visit

by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Sept 16th, 2023A Cabinet meeting on Friday evening cleared agreements, understanding and some memoranda of understanding (MoUs) to be signed during the upcoming visit of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal to China beginning September 22. At the invitation of Chinese Premier Li Qiang, Dahal is going to China where he will visit Hangzhou, Beijing, and Chongqing and will return via Tibet. According to two ministers, at least seven…

Will UML help the coalition on transitional justice bill?

By Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, April 11, 2023In the last week of January, the prime minister’s chief advisor Haribol Gajurel told the Post that Pushpa Kamal Dahal wanted to become prime minister for a third time mainly with the aim of concluding the protracted peace process. Dahal, the chair of the third-largest party in parliament, the CPN (Maoist Centre), became prime minister on December 25 with the support of the CPN-UML, the…

Congress factional dispute delays Cabinet expansion:

Report in The Kathmandu Post, April 7, 2023With the largest party in the ruling coalition, the Nepali Congress, unable to nominate its four ministerial candidates, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has been struggling to give full shape to the Cabinet. The last time the prime minister expanded the cabinet was on Friday. The coalition has allocated eight ministries to the Congress. Party president Sher Bahadur Deuba is waiting for the Shekhar Koirala-Gagan Thapa faction to…