by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Feb 27, 2023After offering the post of President to the largest party in Parliament, the three parties—the Nepali Congress, the CPN (Maoist Centre) and the CPN (Unified Socialist)—are now looking to finalise a new power-sharing deal, including the exact durations individual leaders will become the prime minister for. As the three parties have decided to helm the government by turns, the ongoing five-year tenure of Parliament will…
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By Rathindra Kuruwita in The Island, Jan 17, 2023Chinese International Department Vice Minister Chen Zhou yesterday told political party leaders that China is ready to work with any party and that the developing world can benefit greatly from collaboration with Beijing. Zhou made this statement, briefing political party representatives, and journalists, on the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. He said that Sri Lanka and China have a long standing relationship and China…
by Tika R Pradhan in Kathmandu Post, Jan 17, 2023A month after CPN (Maoist Centre) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal got appointed as prime minister, top leaders of the ruling coalition have agreed on ministerial allocations. With this development the Dahal-led Cabinet will be expanded on Tuesday. A meeting of the chiefs of four ruling parties—the CPN (Maoist Centre), the CPN-UML, the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP), and the Janata Samajbadi Party…
report in The Daily Star, Jan 15, 2023The Awami League has become its worst enemy because of rampant infighting at its grassroots, said leaders of the ruling party yesterday. Rifts between local leaders and activists are responsible for the party’s poor state, they told AL President Sheikh Hasina and requested her to do something to unite the local leaders and thus make the party more organised, insiders said. Rivalry in the party is the only…
By Rathindra Kuruwita in The Island, Jan 7, 2023The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), Uttara Lanka Sabawa (ULS), and Nidahas Sabawa, would join forces with another party represented in Parliament to form a coalition to contest the coming Local Council election, leaders of the parties said, addressing the media at the Elections Secretariat, yesterday. ULS member MP Wimal Weerawansa said that they would announce the name and the symbol of the new coalition on Monday.…
by Arjun Rajbanshi/ Deo Narayan Sah in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 2, 20223There was a time when strategies on the formation and dissolution of governments at Singha Durbar, the country’s administrative headquarters, were made hundreds of kilometres away in Biratnagar, Morang, the home district of Nepali Congress paramount leaders BP Koirala and Girija Prasad Koirala. Political remarks expressed in Biratnagar, the headquarters of the influential Koirala dynasty, created ripples in national politics in Kathmandu. After…
report in Prothom Alo, Jan 1, 2023Senior politician Abdus Sattar Bhuiyan’s resignation from the post of advisor to the BNP chairperson has prompted some of the party’s leaders in Brahmanbaria to speculate that he plans to contest in the by-election from Brahmanbaria-2, the seat that he himself vacated. They say that he will be making a mistake if he contests as an independent candidate or on nomination from a different party after resigning from BNP.…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post,Dec 27, 2022A day after Maoist Centre Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal became prime minister with the backing of the CPN-UML and several other parties, Nepali Congress leaders blamed their party president and immediate past prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba of making a strategic blunder by failing to save the ruling alliance and pushing the party to an uncertain future. Dahal broke ties with the Congress-led alliance and joined the…
By Political Editor in The Sunday Times, Dec 11, 2022With the comfortable passage of the 2023 budget now over, thus ensuring funding for the government, President Ranil Wickremesinghe was busy this week on formulating a roadmap for the party leaders’ talks on ethnic reconciliation on Tuesday in the Parliament complex.The broader contours formed the subject of a tripartite discussion on Thursday at the President’s temporary residence at Paget Road. Talking to President Wickremesinghe were Prime…
Report in The Daily Star, Dec 10, 2022Thousands of BNP leaders and activists have been pouring in Golapbagh field where the BNP is set to hold its divisional rally today. Photo: Dipan NandyThousands of BNP leaders and activists have been pouring in Golapbagh field where the BNP is set to hold its divisional rally today. Although the mass rally will begin at 11:00am, Golapbagh ground and its surrounding areas are filled with thousands of people…
By Sabria Abdal in ToloNews, Dec 8, 2022 ,The US special envoy for Afghanistan, Thomas West, met with Afghan leaders and members of the Afghan business community during a recent visit to the United Arab Emirates. Referring to his meeting with Afghan businesspeople, West said he discussed “continuing challenges as well as progress achieved for bankers, construction interests, entrepreneurs, airlines, and more.” “Banking transactions remain a challenge that requires improvements in the Taliban’s financial and…