Scores protest in Kathmandu against Chinese interference in Nepalese affairs ANI | Updated: Dec 28, 2020 01:18 IST
Kathmandu [Nepal], December 28 (ANI): Scores of people protested in Kathmandu on Sunday against Chinese interference in domestic affairs of Nepal shouting anti-China slogans and holding placards reading, “Back off China.”
This comes as China s four-member team led by Guo Yezhou, vice-minister of the International Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) arrived here on Sunday on a four-day visit in what is believed to be its effort to assess the ground situation amid the split in the ruling the Nepal Communist Party (NCP).
According to sources, Guo is expected to meet the senior leaders of both the factions of the NCP.
China makes last ditch attempt to tide over Nepal crisis
India
Published: Sunday, December 27, 2020, 9:08 [IST]
New Delhi, Dec 27: A high-level team of the Communist Party officials will travel to Kathmandu to stop the Nepal Communist Party from splitting. The move comes after Ambassador Hou Yanqi failed to stop the split in the NCP.
The team being sent by Chinese president, Xi Jinping is led by Guo Yechau, vice minister of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. The team will land in Kathmandu today. The team will meet with key players in Nepal and will try to patch matters between the warring factions.
Nepal crisis: China looks to make one last attempt to keep warring factions together
India
Published: Thursday, December 24, 2020, 8:18 [IST]
New Delhi, Dec 24: China is looking to make one last attempt to keep the warring Nepal Communist Party leaders together.
After meeting with President Bidya Devi, Bhandari, Chinese ambassador Hou Yanqi is also said to have met with Prime Minister, K P Oli s rival, P K Dahal aka Prachanda, who is the co-chair of the ruling Nepal Communist Party.
The meeting with Bhandari took place two days after the President signed off on Prime Minister K P Oli Sharma s recommendation to dissolve Parliament. Oli s decision to dissolve Parliament would given him a smooth run up to the elections and he would also split the Nepal Communist Party.
Why does Nepal suddenly find itself without a parliament?
Faced with dissent, its prime minister dissolved the lower house of parliament. A file photo of Nepal Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli. | Isabel Infantes/AFP
Nepal has quietly plunged into a constitutional crisis. After months of tension within the ruling Nepal Communist Party, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli on Sunday recommended that the country’s lower house of parliament be dissolved. Nepal President Bidya Devi Bhandari duly followed through.
Oli’s defence: “The elected government was pushed to a corner and picketed against” by rival factions of his own party, so what could he do but dissolve parliament? If the country’s Supreme Court does not stay the move, Nepal will go into elections on April 30 and May 10 to elect a new government.
As Communist Party heads for a split, Chinese ambassador meets Nepal’s President
India
Updated: Wednesday, December 23, 2020, 14:15 [IST]
New Delhi, Dec 23: Days after a recommendation was made to dissolve Nepal s parliament, Chinese ambassador Hou Yanqi called on President Bidya Devi Bhandari at the presidential palace Shital Niwas.
The meeting took place two days after the President signed off on Prime Minister K P Oli Sharma s recommendation to dissolve Parliament. Oli s decision to dissolve Parliament would given him a smooth run up to the elections and he would also split the Nepal Communist Party.
The split is something that China has been trying to avert. The Nepal Communist Party was formed around 3 years back with the merger of Oli s Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) and his rival Pushpa Kamal Dahal aka Prachanda s Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist Centre.