by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, October 3, 2023Nepali Congress General Secretary Gagan Thapa on Sunday proposed that all Congress ministers be recalled from the government. Thapa’s statement comes a week after the end of the party’s central working committee meeting. He is yet to officially make any such proposal at party meetings. “Let’s allow the Socialist Front to run the government,” Thapa said at a function on Sunday, referring to the political bloc…
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by Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, Sept 14, 2023The Rastriya Swatantra Party has started investigating bribery charges against its central committee member Mohan Jung Thapa levelled by Dhaka Kumar Shrestha, a lawmaker who was sacked following a corruption case. The Swatantra Party had suspended Shrestha in April after a leaked audio recording revealed a voice, allegedly Shrestha’s, asking for a bribe. Two weeks later, he lost his position as a member of the House…
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 Nepalnews, July 29, 2023MORANG: Nepali Congress (NC) central member Dr. Shekhar Koirala expressed his confidence that the Koshi province government would be formed under Uddhab Thapa’s leadership itself. Talking to journalists at Biratnagar Airport on Friday evening, Dr Koirala claimed a coalition government would be formed in the Koshi province under the leadership of Thapa within a week. His remarks noting speakers’ interference on forming government in the past was a mistake has…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Feb 15, 2023On Monday, Nepali Congress General Secretary Gagan Thapa claimed the ruling coalition would collapse by February 22. But the Maoist Centre leaders believe the coalition could continue even after a new President is elected through consensus. Thapa’s statement came after his recent meeting with Prime Minister and CPN (Maoist Centre) chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal with whom he discussed the presidential elections. “The agreement [to stitch…
by Purushottam Poudel in The Kathmandu Post,Dec 23, 2022 .Nepali Congress General Secretary Gagan Thapa has said a non-political person would be an acceptable candidate for President for all sides. In an interview with the Post on Thursday, General Secretary Thapa said that as major political parties in the ruling coalition are eying the post of President, a non-political person can be appointed as a compromise candidate. “Our party should not demand both the presidency…
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…