Report in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 28, 2023At a time when Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has publicly vowed to reshuffle his Cabinet, the Nepali Congress, the largest party in the government, is reviewing the performance of its ministers. The primary agenda of the party’s central working committee meeting that convenes on Thursday is to review and assess the performance of nine ministers who are currently serving in the Dahal government, said party leaders. The…
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by Anish Tiwari in The Kathmandu Post, Oct 3, 2023Beijing supposedly reopened the Tatopani-Khasa route on the Nepal-China border to two-way trade last May, but Nepali traders say they were given false assurances. “It’s only one-way trade,” said Sanu Maya Sherpa, a local trader from Bhotekoshi Rural Municipality-2. “We are not allowed to sell our products in Chinese cities.” The northern border was closed after the 2015 earthquake. Commerce resumed through the Tatopani border point…
byAnil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Sept 21, 2023A group of Nepali Congress dissidents led by senior leader Shekhar Koirala met party president Sher Bahadur Deuba on Wednesday on the eve of the party’s Central Working Committee meeting, and pressed him to correct the course or face consequences. This sets the stage for a showdown at the Central Working Committee meeting, which is starting Thursday. The Koirala camp is preparing to attack Deuba on several…
report in Nepalnews, Sept 18, 2023Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has said that Nepali citizens outside the country for various reasons will be provided the opportunity to vote in general elections. Currently in the United States to participate in the 78th General Assembly of the United Nations, Prime Minister Dahal said that Nepali citizens will not be deprived of the right to vote. In a meeting with Nepali media persons in New York on Sunday,…
by Renu Thapa in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 29, 2023Shaindra Thapa hasn’t forgotten the day she heard the news of her husband’s passing in 1990 in a distant foreign land. Her husband, Shankar Thapa, was a British Gurkha soldier, an honourable calling for a Nepali, in the 1990s. Shankar’s death had left Shaindra a widow and their six-month-old son without a father. Deprived of the means of living, Shaindra was solely dependent on her husband’s…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 14, 2023After the main opposition CPN-UML, a faction of the ruling Nepali Congress has also demanded a high-level probe panel to investigate the cases of gold smuggling. This development is likely to build pressure on the ruling coalition, which was rejecting the opposition’s demand for such a probe saying that the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police was already looking into the issue and that…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post,July 30, 2023The CPN (Maoist Centre), the third-largest party in the federal parliament, currently helms the coalition government with the backing of the Nepali Congress, the largest party, while the second-largest, the CPN-UML, remains outside the government. But Maoist leaders say the party’s increased emphasis on governance has left its organisation in a mess. As the organisational base of the party continues to erode, the Maoist Centre has…
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…
report in The Kathmandu Post, July 22, 2023 The ongoing Central Working Committee (CWC) meeting of the Nepali Congress that is being live-streamed to the audience for the first time in the party’s history lacks a structured and focussed debate. A joint meeting of the party’s office bearers and former office bearers on Sunday had set the agenda for the meeting, which is taking place after a gap of almost a year. The party’s statute…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, July 21, 2023On Thursday, the third day of the Nepali Congress’s Central Working Committee meeting, leaders came down heavily on the leadership, accusing it of failing the party on various fronts. Leaders speaking at the meeting said that the party’s top brass has failed to instil in the Congress rank and file a sense that the party was in government. They accused that despite being the largest…
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…