Report in The Kathmandu Post, March 2, 2023With both the Nepali Congress and the CPN-UML claiming the role of main opposition in Parliament, the meeting of the House of Representatives has been postponed for nearly three weeks. The House meeting scheduled for Wednesday will now be held on March 19. Bharat Raj Gautam, general secretary at the Parliament Secretariat announced the postponement through a notice on Wednesday morning a few hours before the House meeting,…
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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…
report in The Himalayan Times, Feb 20, 2023 Chairperson KP Sharma Oli today reiterated that the candidate fielded by the UML would become the next President. Talking to media at the Biratnagar Airport, the former Prime Minister expressed the hope that there would be a consensus to make the presidential candidate fielded by the UML victorious. Stating the UML would make public the party’s presidential candidate on the day of the nomination registration, he said,…
by Purushottam Poudel in The Kathmandu Post, Feb 17, 2023The second-largest party in the House of Representatives, CPN-UML, has launched a two-month-long campaign called ‘Mission Grassroots’ starting on Friday, to strengthen the party organisation and broaden its ideological base at the local level across the country. On Friday, an orientation event for the leaders who would be working on ‘Mission Grassroots’ will be held in each of the seven provinces. To kickstart the campaign, party…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Feb 12, 2023The Nepali Congress, encouraged by Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s proposal of electing the new President based on ‘national consensus’, has made a two-pronged strategy for the March 9 vote. After the Congress extended its vote of trust to Dahal on January 10, he floated the “consensus” idea. Congress leaders see their early success in the ‘suspicion and doubt’ that they have been able to sow…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Feb 11, 2023Differences between the major two coalition partners—the CPN-UML and the CPN (Maoist Centre)—resurfaced even at the meeting of the High-level Political Mechanism (HLPC) on Friday. At the heart of their disagreement is UML chair KP Sharma Oli’s insistence that he will not accept a consensus candidate for President. The long-awaited meeting of the political mechanism led by Oli, the chairman of the largest party in…
report in Nepalnews.com, Nov 30, 2022 at 21:04 hrsCounting of votes cast under the proportional representation (PR) of the November 20 elections to the House of Representatives and Province Assembly is underway. As per the details of the Election Commission recorded till 6:00 pm Wednesday, the CPN UML is leading the vote count. The party has received 2,720,639 votes out of 10,171,273 valid votes so far. Similarly, the Nepali Congress has obtained 2,585,090 votes followed…