by Mohammad Al-Masum Molla in The Daily Star, Mar 18, 2023The BNP’s grassroots leaders have suggested the top leadership that the party should not take part in any polls under the incumbent government. They have also recommended finalising the movement strategy to force the government to hold the next general election under a non-party interim government. They said that the BNP should focus more on strengthening its organisational capacity by quelling all internal feuds before…
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Report in The Kathmandu Post, March 18, 2023 at 07:01Ram Sahay Prasad Yadav of the Janata Samajbadi Party has been elected as the new Vice President of Nepal. Out of the total 52,628 weighted votes, Ram Sahay secured 30,328 while Asta Laxmi Shakya of the CPN-UML received 16,328 and Mamata Jha of the Janamat Party got 2,537 in an election held on Friday. Fifty-two-year-old Ram Sahay garnered 58.02 percent of the votes, while his closest…
Report in Kathmandu Post, Feb 26, 2023The CPN-UML has expelled businessman and central committee member Durga Prasai from the party. A secretariat meeting of the party held on Saturday expelled Prasai from the party, according to UML’s Deputy General Secretary Prithvi Subba Gurung. Prasai, who was once close to the Maoists, became a representative in the UML’s statute convention held in October 2021. He had entered the party through a formal function held in Jhapa…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kanthmandu Post, Feb 21, 2023Even with just four days to go for the filing of nominations for the presidential election, the CPN (Maoist Centre) is still keeping its cards close to its chest. There have been no clear indications about whom it will support as the new head of state, even though the party seems to be inching closer to the Nepali Congress on the issue. Leaders of the…
by Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, Feb 19, 2023As the presidential election nears, the Loktantrik Samajbadi Party has been in negotiations with other political parties, projecting the party’s chair Mahantha Thakur as the next president. The discourse of a consensus president is making headlines of late. Thakur is rightly one such candidate, Loktantrik Samajbadi Party leaders say. Party’s executive committee member Keshav Jha said that they have been holding informal talks with the Congress,…
by Tika R Pradhan in the Kathmandu Post, Feb 17, 2023As the nomination day for the presidential election is approaching, the third largest party that leads the current government with the backing of the CPN-UML and later got the support of other parties including the Nepali Congress, the CPN (Maoist Centre) seems inching closer to the Congress. Some leaders of the party said the Maoist Centre could support the Nepali Congress in the presidential polls…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Feb 5th, 2023Coalition politics has greatly benefitted Pushpa Kamal Dahal, the incumbent prime minister and chairman of the CPN (Maoist Centre), a party that has been in continuous decline after it emerged victorious in the 2008 Constituent Assembly elections. The Maoist party’s growing challenges in parliamentary democracy and Dahal’s need to constantly manoeuvre to stay relevant in national politics run parallel. While his party was placed third in…
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…
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…
report in Daily FT, Jan 10, 2023Tamil political parties led by the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has decided to give President Ranil Wickremesinghe a seven-day ultimatum during which he will be expected to fulfil three demands made by the party. Speaking to the Daily FT, Vanni District TNA MP Selvam Adaikkalanathan said the party has decided to walk out of talks with President Wickremesinghe if these demands are not met within the time frame set…