Slamming Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his 'Shakti' remark, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Tuesday that Congress is led by a divisive mindset and is inspired by Maoist and anti-Hindu thoughts.
Former House Speaker and Vice-Chair of the ruling Maoist Center, Krishna Bahadur Mahara, has been remanded in judicial custody for four days by the Kathmandu District Court.
Last week, the inquiry commission headed by Dilli Raj Acharya, a former High Court chief judge, submitted its report to the home minister, which was later sent to Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay the Bombay High Court verdict acquitting Delhi University Professor GN Saibaba and five other accused in a case in which he was accused of having links with the banned CPI (Maoist).
As per the chief whip of Dahal's Maoist Centre party, the Prime Minister was informed about the floor test in the parliamentary party meeting that was held today.
After coming out of jail in an alleged Maoist links case, former Delhi University Professor GN Saibaba said that there was no evidence against him and the case was false and fabricated.
They set aside the verdict of a sessions court that had convicted Saibaba and others in 2017. The High Court had allowed an appeal filed by Saibaba and five others challenging a 2017 decision of the trial court convicting and sentencing him to life imprisonment under the anti-terror law UAPA
Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal justified his change of coalition, stating that political upheavals are in the 'nature' of Maoist ideology of the Himalayan nation.
In a post on Facebook, Pandey wrote, "Government to change today. New cabinet to be formed. Swearing in of small number of ministers to take place today."
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has chargesheeted two more accused, including a prominent Politburo member of the banned outfit, in the CPI (Maoist) or Naxal Magadh zone revival case, the agency on Sunday.
The encounter broke out between Maoists and the District Reserve Guard (DRG), a unit of the Chhattisgarh Police, in a forest near Kanker's Hidur village under the Chhotebethiya police station during a search operation on Sunday morning.