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Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal to visit India from May 31 to June 3

by Anil Giri in Kathmandu Post, May 20, 2023Five months after assuming office in December last year, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal is all set to begin his maiden visit to India. He starts his sojourn on May 31. Senior government officials confirmed to the Post that Dahal will undertake a four-day official visit to the southern neighbour at the invitation of his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi. Dahal is expected to call on Indian President…

Congress hopeful of securing presidency after Maoist Centre’s decision

Report in Kathmandu Post, Feb 21, 2023 at 07:34 pmWith the decision of the CPN (Maoist Centre) office bearers on Monday to elect a new President through national consensus, Nepali Congress leaders said they have become more confident about their nominee getting elected to the top post. The presidential election is slated for March 9 and the Maoist Centre has entrusted Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal with the responsibility of taking the final call on…

A weakened CPN (Maoist Centre) steps up left unification efforts

by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Feb 14, 2023Prime Minister and CPN (Maoist Centre) chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Monday said his party is working on a merger of like-minded socialist and communist forces in order to create a socialist front. He also hinted that his party could shed the Maoist tag. Addressing a function organised at the Maoist Centre headquarters in Kathmandu to mark the “people’s war day,” Dahal appealed to all…

High-level mechanism to discuss presidential election

by Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, February 9, 2023Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal and CPN-UML chair KP Sharma Oli have agreed to hold a meeting of the High-Level Political Mechanism, a body comprising the chiefs of the seven parties in the ruling coalition, soon. The two top leaders, who held a one-on-one at Oli’s residence in Balkot on Wednesday morning, also agreed to discuss the presidential election at the upcoming meeting of the mechanism,…

RSP to leave the govt formed if demands not met

report on Nepalnews.com Rastriya Swatantra Party Chairman Rabi Lamichhane met Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal and demanded that the leadership of the Home Ministry be given to his party. According to sources, Chairman Lamichhane had warned that if the party did not get the seat at the Home Ministry, the country’s government would dissolve . UML, Maoist Center RSP, RPP, Janata Samajwadi Party, Janmat Party and Nepal Communist Party agreed to form the government. The…

CPN (US) keeps Dahal guessing on trust vote

report The Himalayan Times, January 6, 2023Kathmandu: The Madhav Kumar Nepal-led CPN (Unified Socialist) continues to keep the seven-party alliance and Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal guessing on what it will do on January 10 when the Dahal-led government seeks the vote of confidence. The ongoing politburo meeting of the party ended today, saying nothing about the vote of confidence. Dahal had sought the CPN (US) support in the trust vote, but CPN (US) Spokesperson…

Dahal firm on not giving up PM post

by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 23, 2022After being elected as parliamentary party leader of the CPN (Maoist Centre) on Thursday, the party’s chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal reiterated his claim to prime ministership. Dahal, who has been leading the Maoist party’s parliamentary caucus ever since the party joined mainstream politics in 2006, was yet again unanimously elected to the post. According to Maoist lawmakers, Dahal told them that he would speak to…