Advertisement On December 19, Nepal’s President Bidya Devi Bhandari, acting on the behest of Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli, dissolved the House of Representatives and announced fresh mid-term elections on April 30 and May 10, putting the nation in a state of near anarchy. The Nepal Communist Party (NCP), which enjoyed a two-thirds majority government, has splintered into two factions – Oli versus Pushpa Kamal Dahal, more widely known as Prachanda. The two factions have begun their number games to win members. The two major communist parties, the Unified Marxist-Leninist led by Oli and Maoist Center led by Dahal, had officially teamed up on June 7, 2018, to run the government, raising hopes for some stability in Nepal’s 30 years of democracy. But it did not last.