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Oli is confident that Nepal is headed for mid-term polls a couple of months down the line. And if that happens, he can always tell the people of the country that he was the one who wanted to seek a fresh mandate by dissolving Parliament last year itself.
Nepal’s controversial Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli failed to win the confidence motion he had introduced in the Pratinidhi Sabha (the lower house of parliament) on Monday (10 April).
The fall of the Oli government has triggered hectic efforts to cobble together a coalition that can now stake claim to form the government.
The opposition–Nepali Congress, Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) and the Janata Samajbadi Party–have jointly urged President Bidya Devi Bhandari to invoke Article 76(2) of the Constitution to initiate the process of forming an alternative government.
But the opposition’s strenuous efforts to form a coalition government to keep Oli out of power may not bear fruit.
And ultimately, Nepal may be headed towards fresh polls. Which is exactly what Oli wanted when he dissolved Parliament in December last year.
But in end-February this year, Nepal’s Supreme Court overturned Oli’s decision and reinstated Parliament.
Nepal’s apex court also triggered a political upheaval by annulling the merger of the Oli’s Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Leninist) [CPN-UML] and the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) [CPN-MC] that is led by Oli’s bete noire Pushpa Kamal Dahal, better known by his nom de guerre ‘Prachanda’ (the fierce one).
China had brokered the merger between the two parties in 2018. The two parties had announced an electoral alliance in October 2017 and subsequently merged in May the next year.
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