Nepal’s PM Oli Dissolves Parliament Amid Ruling Party Feud

Nepal’s Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli recommended dissolution of Parliament. The recommendation was cleared at an emergency meeting of the cabinet convened by PM Oli on Sunday morning. The reason for the dissolution being the PM had been under pressure from his detractors to withdraw a controversial ordinance.

The Kathmandu Post newspaper reported today, “PM Oli was under pressure to withdraw an ordinance related to the Constitutional Council Act that he had issued on Tuesday and got endorsed by President Bidya Devi Bhandari the same day.”

PM Oli dissolved the Parliament amidst a prolonged tussle for power between him and former premier Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda. Prachanda and Madhav Nepal faction has been urging Oli to quit the post of Prime Minister amidst growing accusation and counter-accusation between the two factions in the ruling NCP.

As per a Reuter report, The PM’s Nepal Communist Party today said that the PM had lost majority support. “The prime minister has lost the majority in the parliamentary party, central committee and the secretariat of the party,” said Bishnu Rijal, a Central Committee member of the NPC.

The senior leader of the ruling NCP and former prime minister Madhav Kumar Nepal has termed the move as unconstitutional. Because as per the provision of Nepal’s Constitution, there is no provision of dissolving Parliament by the Prime Minister of a majority government.

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