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What next about NCP after the court verdict? My Republica
Nepal, March 9 If NCP Double is to split along UML and Maoist Centre what will happen to those MPs crisscrossing between Oli and Dahal-Nepal camps?
On March 7, Sunday, for a whole day, the weather inside the Kathmandu Valley was cloudy, if not gloomy. The Sun was not visible in the sky. People joked: is the Sun rising or fading? The two disputing factions of Nepal Communist Party (NCP), both claiming their right to have electoral symbol Sun, had a jolt from the sky when the Supreme Court not only annulled their name Nepal Communist Party (NCP), dubbed as NCP Double, but also reinstated status quo ante. That is, they either have to find a new party name that does not match with the one already registered at the Election Commission or switch back to their pre-unification names: CPN-UML and CPN (Maoist Centre) respectively. They cannot fool around by simply having their acronym bracketed within t