report in Nepalnews.com July 15, 2023 at 13:33 hrsNepali Congress (NC) General-Secretary Gagan Kumar Thapa said he would continuously put an effort towards changing the party’s parliamentary leader. Talking to media persons at Biratnagar Airport in Morang today, General-Secretary Thapa argued that the effort to change the party’s parliamentary would be meaningful provided there was support of friends in the party. If their number would meet the criteria to change the leader, it would be…
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report in The Island, July 15, 2023Leader of the Tamil Progressive Alliance (TPA), MP Mano Ganesan on Friday said that his party did not want political support from India’s Modi government for the Hill Country Tamils.What the TPA wanted was social progress assistance from Modi, Ganesan said. Ganesan said in a tweet that his party had submitted a request to High Commissioner of India in Sri Lanka Gopal Baglay earlier this year, for a Teacher…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, July 15, 2023With an objective to attract the new generation to the major pro-monarch force of the country, Rastriya Prajatantra Party has started a ‘Nabin [New] RPP’ campaign. However, political analysts say attracting youths to the rightist force could be challenging. The RPP led by Rajendra Lingden, who defeated party veteran Kamal Thapa to become its president from the general convention in December 2021, has won 14…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post online, July 12, 2023On Saturday, Gagan Thapa, a popular Nepali Congress leader and one of the party’s two general secretaries, made an interesting announcement: “The need of the hour is to make myself or any other leader from my generation the new prime minister of the country.” The announcement created a ripple of sorts in political circles—especially in the country’s largest party. Most Congress leaders doubt the…
Report in The Kathmandu Post, July 6, 2023Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba on Wednesday called the party’s central working committee meeting for July 12. The meeting had been pending for a year and is expected to see heated debates over several issues that the party has been confronting. A meeting of Deuba, vice-presidents Purna Bahadur Khadka and Dhanraj Gurung, and general secretaries Gagan Thapa and Bishwa Prakash Sharma took a decision to that effect.…
By Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, March 21,2023The Madhesh-based Janata Samajbadi Party, Loktantrik Samajbadi Party and Janamat Party gave a vote of confidence to Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal during his floor test on Monday. Under the new power equation, the door has opened for government expansion. Although all three Madhesh-based parties are now part of the new alliance led by the Nepali Congress and the CPN (Maoist Centre), the Madheshi parties are divided.…
by Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, June 13, 2023The Rastriya Swatantra Party has been focusing on organisation building after it decided to pull out support for the government. By this, the party aims to strengthen its base at the grassroots level for the next local elections, say party leaders. Kabindra Burlakoti, the party’s joint general secretary, said as many as 30,438 members have been verified with their memberships renewed for the next five years.…
by Partha Pratim Bhattacharjee & Mohammad Jamil Khan in The Daily Star, June 14, 2023Contrary to the widespread perception that Jamaat-e-Islami has been on the wane for over the past 15 years, the Islamist party that actively opposed the birth of the nation is actually growing, according to intelligence and party documents. In 2008, the number of the party’s permanent members or Rukon was 23,863. That figure now stands at 73,046 — a threefold rise,…
By Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, June 10, 2023Only recently, the CPN-UML removed the age limit of 70 years for leaders to hold an executive post, making its 71-year-old chair KP Sharma Oli eligible to helm the party for another tenure. That, however, is contingent on the party removing its two-term rule as well. The UML had introduced a two-term limit for the holder of an executive post in the party’s eighth general convention…
report in Prothom Alo, Jun 8, 2023BNP is not giving importance to Awami League advisory council member Amir Hossain Amu’s remark on dialogue to resolve political deadlock over the next general election, party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said. Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday, he also said ruling party leaders’ contradictory comments on the talks with BNP have also manifested how the government has now become unnerved. “I don’t want to…
report in Prothom Alo, July 4, 2023 A total of 39 leaders-activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) have been contesting for councilor post in Sylhet city corporation election defying the party’s decision to boycott the polls. BNP insiders said the party is likely to take disciplinary action against these leaders soon as they continue to run in the election. BNP decided to boycott the polls for mayor and councilor posts in five city corporations as…