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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
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Was poll body consulted on midterm elections, Dahal-Nepal faction asks Kathmandu Post
Kathmandu, Jan. 18 Leaders from the Pushpa Kamal Dahal-Madhav Nepal faction of the Nepal Communist Party have sought evidence of the government having held consultations with the Election Commission before announcing the date for midterm elections, as per legal provisions.
Based on the recommendation of the Cabinet, President Bidya Devi Bhandari on December 20 dissolved the House of Representatives and announced the midterm elections on April 30 and May 10.
Most of the political parties including the Dahal-Nepal faction of the Nepal Communist Party, the Nepali Congress and the Janata Samajbadi Party have been terming the House dissolution and announcement of elections as an unconstitutional move.
Oli claims his faction s Central Committee is the legitimate one Kathmandu Post
Kathmandu, Jan. 14 Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has claimed that the Central Committee of the ruling Nepal Communist Party he formed after inducting loyalists to it is the legitimate Central Committee of the party.
In a response to the Election Commission s asking for clarification on the dispute within the party, Oli claimed that the erstwhile Central Committee of the party had a fixed tenure of two years and it expired on May 15 after the general convention couldn t be convened by then.
Oli added that as serious questions were raised about the legitimacy of the Central Committee, he as the principal office-bearer, formed the new Central Committee and set fresh dates for the general convention, the supreme decision-making body of the party.