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Remove me if you can: Nepal PM Oli challenges Prachanda
Nepal s embattled Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli on Sunday challenged the ruling Nepal Communist Party s splinter faction led by Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda to remove him from the top post if he can. Addressing an event in his home district, Jhapa, Prime Minister Oli challenged the Prachanda-led faction to table a vote of no confidence motion and endorse that, My Republica newspaper reported. K P Oli is still the parliamentary party leader of the NCP. He is the party chairman as well as the prime minister, 69-year-old Oli said. If you have restored parliament, remove KP Oli from the prime ministerial post.
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Nepal political turmoil: PM Oli expelled from ruling NCP amid political unrest
Caretaker Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli was removed from the ruling Nepal Communist Party by a Central Committee Meeting of the splinter group of the party on Sunday, amid a deepening political crisis post the dissolution of the Parliament.Â
Earlier on Friday, the rival faction leaders of the NCP had threatened to expel Oli s membership from the party as they took to the streets for the second time in less than a month to protest against his decision to dissolve the Parliament on December 20 last year, calling for fresh elections for April and May this year amid the political unrest in the country.