report on Nepalnews.com Rastriya Swatantra Party Chairman Rabi Lamichhane met Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal and demanded that the leadership of the Home Ministry be given to his party. According to sources, Chairman Lamichhane had warned that if the party did not get the seat at the Home Ministry, the country’s government would dissolve . UML, Maoist Center RSP, RPP, Janata Samajwadi Party, Janmat Party and Nepal Communist Party agreed to form the government. The…
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by Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 21, 2023The newcomer Rastriya Swatantra Party’s unexpected success and the Rastriya Prajatantra Party’s impressive comeback in the November elections have sharply curtailed the Madhesh-based parties’ bargaining power in ongoing power-sharing negotiations. Among the Madhesh-based parties, so far only the Janamat Party has joined the government led by Pushpa Kamal Dahal, and it too is not happy with its share in the Cabinet. Janamat Party chair CK Raut’s…
Report in The Kathmandu Post,Jan 13th, 2023The largest party in the House of Representatives, Nepali Congress, which is facing criticism for giving its confidence vote to the Pushpa Kamal Dahal-led government, is eying the key positions of President and Speaker. Normally in parliamentary democracy, the main opposition does not give the vote of confidence to the prime minister, but the Congress extended the trust vote to Dahal, which is now courting controversy. Though Congress leaders…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 23, 2022After being elected as parliamentary party leader of the CPN (Maoist Centre) on Thursday, the party’s chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal reiterated his claim to prime ministership. Dahal, who has been leading the Maoist party’s parliamentary caucus ever since the party joined mainstream politics in 2006, was yet again unanimously elected to the post. According to Maoist lawmakers, Dahal told them that he would speak to…