by Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, July 28, 2023The Supreme Court has removed Uddhav Thapa from the post of chief minister of Koshi Province after concluding that the formation of the Nepali Congress-led provincial government was unconstitutional. A full bench of justices Ishwar Prasad Khatiwada, Ananda Mohan Bhattarai and Til Prasad Shrestha has also directed the chief of the Koshi Province and Speaker of the provincial assembly to appoint a chief minister of a…
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report in Nepalnews, July 29, 2023MORANG: Nepali Congress (NC) central member Dr. Shekhar Koirala expressed his confidence that the Koshi province government would be formed under Uddhab Thapa’s leadership itself. Talking to journalists at Biratnagar Airport on Friday evening, Dr Koirala claimed a coalition government would be formed in the Koshi province under the leadership of Thapa within a week. His remarks noting speakers’ interference on forming government in the past was a mistake has…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, July 11, 2023The struggle against the naming of Province 1 as Koshi by indigenous groups continues unabated as the newly appointed Chief Minister Uddav Thapa commented that a change in the province’s name is not possible anytime soon. A day after the province got its new chief minister from the ruling coalition, protesters rallied on motorcycles in Okhaldhunga demanding an identity-based name for the province. As soon…
by Deo Narayan Shah in The Kathmandu Post, July 10, 2023In less than four days of new government formation in Koshi Province, discontent has started brewing in the ruling coalition. CPN (Unified Socialist), a coalition partner, has expressed its dissatisfaction over the Cabinet expansion. Unified Socialist leader Rajendra Kumar Rai accused the chief minister of allocating the ministerial berths, unilaterally. He said an environment of consensus and cooperation within the alliance has been foiled and…
by Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, July 07, 2023The politics of Koshi Province is in a quagmire. As Province Head Parshuram Khapung on Thursday appointed Nepali Congress parliamentary party leader Uddhav Thapa as the new chief minister, based on claims of majority with the Speaker’s backing, constitutional experts have denounced the move as unconstitutional. Thapa was appointed in accordance with Article 168(2) of the constitution after he laid claim to lead a majority-based government…
Report in The Kathmandu Post,July 04, 2023Leaders of the ruling coalition in Kathmandu have decided to form a new government in Koshi Province under the leadership of Nepali Congress. A meeting of coalition leaders held at the prime minister’s residence in Baluwatar on Monday also decided that the Congress’ Uddab Thapa would be a candidate to lead the provincial government. Rajendra Pandey, acting chair of CPN (Unified Socialist), who attended the meeting said the top…
By Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, June 12, 2023The writer is a reporter covering national politics for The Kathmandu Post.Ajambar Rai Kangmang is among the CPN-UML leaders who quit the party en masse to form the Federal Socialist Party in 2012. The new party’s goal was to champion the cause of identity-based federalism. In 2015, it merged with other forces. Kangmang then joined the CPN (Maoist Centre) and is now the party’s central committee…
By Deo Narayan Sah in The Kathmandu Post, June 07, 2023Two CPN (Maoist Centre) ministers in Koshi Province resigned from their posts on Tuesday, following the party’s decision to withdraw its support to Chief Minister Hikmat Kumar Karki. Minister for Physical Infrastructure Development Durga Prasad Chapagain and Minister for Tourism, Forest and Environment Jeevan Acharya tendered their resignations to the chief minister. Chapagain and Acharya were appointed as the provincial ministers on January 9. Earlier…
By Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, April 22, 2023Nearly a month after his death on March 24, the struggle committee agitating against the decision of the Province 1 provincial assembly to name the province as ‘Koshi’, decided to perform the funeral rites of their activist Padam Limbu, also known as Lajehang, on Saturday, after holding a condolence assembly in Biratnagar. As there was no significant struggle when all five provinces were named by…
by Deo Narayan Sah in The Kathmandu Post, Mar 20,2023Clashes ensued between security personnel and protesters demonstrating against the naming of Koshi Province in Biratnagar on Sunday. Armed Police Force personnel fired four rounds of bullets in the air and lobbed around 24 shells of tear gas after the protesters from the indigenous communities breached a prohibited area to stage the protest. The demonstration which started from Jan Andolan Chowk in Biratnagar breached the prohibited…