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.