by Purushottam Poudel in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 9, 2023.With the Nepali Congress, the largest party in Parliament, unable to form a new government, a question is being raised: Can the Congress revive itself under the leadership of its current chief Sher Bahadur Deuba? Congress President Deuba, who is considered a canny politician who can cobble together even unwieldy coalitions, however, this time failed to turn the situation in his favour. Though the Congress-led electoral…
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by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 8, 2023With the poor show in the November 20 federal and provincial polls and the rise of new forces from elections, the CPN (Maoist Centre) seems to have felt the need for some hard work to keep itself relevant. To bolster its chances, the party has decided to go for a broader left unity. A meeting of office bearers of the ruling party on Saturday formed…
by Shantha Chandrasiri in Daily Mirror online, Jan 6, 2023 at 01:55 pmThe Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) is planning to contest the upcoming local government election as a single political party and not as a constituent party of an alliance formed by the Sri Lanka Podujana Peremuna, the United National Party, or the JVP. Deputy General Secretary of the SLFP and former Chief Minister of the Central Province, Sarath Ekanayake, told the media yesterday…
by Purushottam Poudel in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 1, 2023 .The CPN (Unified Socialist) is still undecided on whether to join the Puspha Kamal Dahal-led government. Speaking to the Post, party leaders refuted rumours that the party is joining the new administration soon. The party had called a standing committee meeting on Saturday to take a decision on joining the Dahal-led government. “The ruling coalition has not formally asked our party to join the government…
report in The Himalayan Times, Jan 01, 2023KATHMANDU, DECEMBER 31Nepali Congress general secretaries Gagan Kumar Thapa and Bishwa Prakash Sharma issued a joint statement today vowing to change the party from a state of frustration and confusion to a state of opportunities to rejuvenate the party. In their National Reconciliation Day statement, the duo, who advocate handover of party leadership to new and young faces, said there should be seriousness in this adverse situation and…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 28, 2022On Monday, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal formed an eight-member Cabinet with four ministers from the UML, and one each from the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) and the Janamat Party. But he has failed to not only expand his Cabinet but also to fix portfolios of the four remaining ministers. The new Cabinet, which is yet to get full shape, has three deputy prime ministers—Bishnu…
by Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 22, 2022.Two new regional forces have emerged in parliamentary politics from the recently concluded polls. The Janamat Party established itself in the Madhesh region while the Nagarik Unmukti Party made it to the federal parliament and provincial assembly from the western and far-western Tarai. Both the parties are keen on joining the government, but they have some preconditions. The Janamat Party has asked for several ministries in…
by Purushottam Poudel in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 22, 2022Following the defeat of Nepali Congress General Secretary Gagan Thapa to party chief Sher Bahadur Deuba in the race for parliamentary party leadership on Wednesday, the party’s dissident faction led by Shekhar Koirala and Thapa has decided to assert itself against the establishment faction in the days ahead. After losing the contest to Deuba with a margin of 39 votes, Thapa told reporters that he wouldn’t…
report in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 21, 2022Voting is underway at the parliamentary party office of the Nepali Congress in Singha Durbar to elect its parliamentary party leader. Gagan Thapa, the 46-year-old general secretary of the Nepali Congress, is running against the 76-year-old party president Sher Bahadur Deuba, who is also the incumbent prime minister, for the position of parliamentary party leader in the election today. The winner of the parliamentary party election will be…
report in The Himalayan Times, Dec 20, 2022KATHMANDU: Chairperson of the Rastriya Prajantra Party (RPP), Rajendra Lingden, has said his party was not in a hurry to join government. He said it during a programme organized to welcome and congratulate the newly elected lawmakers from RPP. He however said RPP has not vowed to stay away from government either. Party’s agenda and values would be set gradually and it would take decision on time, Lingden…
report in Prothom Alo, Dec 13, 2022Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami ameer (chief) Shafiqur Rahman was picked up by detective branch (DB) of police from his residence in Dhaka in the small hours of Tuesday, alleged the party. Prothom Alo could not immediately talk to DB officials regarding the allegation of Jamaat-e-Islami. Jamaat-e-Islami leaders said the DB men ransacked the home before picking Shafiqur Rahman up at around 2:00am Tuesday. The DB men also snatched the mobile phone…