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Thousands march through Kathmandu against PM dissolving Parliament ANI | Updated: Dec 30, 2020 00:27 IST
By Binod Prasad Adhikari
Kathmandu [Nepal], December 30 (ANI): Protestors led by Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Madhav Kumar Nepal of Nepal Communist Party s rival faction marched through the streets of the capital Kathmandu on Tuesday against the dissolution of Parliament.
The march took place even as a delegation from China is in Nepal on a four-day visit to assess the ground situation.
Participating in the protest march were three former Prime Ministers - Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Madhav Kumar Nepal and Jhala Nath Khanal. Slogans were chanted against the latest unconstitutional move of dissolving parliament by now the now caretaker Government of Prime Minster KP Oli.
Explained: What is at stake in Nepal’s political crisis?
On Sunday, Nepal Prime Minister K P Oli
recommended dissolution of the House of Representatives, the lower of Parliament, a move promptly approved by President Bidhya Devi Bhandari.
This effectively ended the unity forced among the left forces that had led to the creation of the single, grand Nepal Communist Party three years ago. It plunged national politics into turmoil and the five-year-old Constitution into uncertainty, and raised questions about the haste with which the President approved Oli’s recommendation.
Oli took the step when he realised that a factional feud within the party had reached the point of no return and he faced possible expulsion both as party chief and as Prime Minister. Since then, a dozen petitions have been filed in the Supreme Court challenging the dissolution with two years left of the present House’s tenure. Each faction has also approached the Election Commission claiming it is the rea
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A Nepalese protester burns an effigy of prime minister Khadga Prasad Oli in front of the parliament building in Kathmandu, Nepal, Sunday, Dec. 20, 2020. (AP Photo: Niranjan Shrestha)
On Sunday, Nepal Prime Minister K P Oli
recommended dissolution of the House of Representatives, the lower of Parliament, a move promptly approved by President Bidhya Devi Bhandari.