Balen Shah is poised to become one of Nepal's youngest Prime Ministers as the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) leads an electoral landslide. Following the March 5 general election, the 35-year-old engineer is significantly outstripping veteran KP Sharma Oli in Jhapa-05. Backed by Gen-Z, Sha
The former King was welcomed by supporters from the right-wing Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) and pro-monarchy organisations, who chanted slogans against the existing political system.
Nepal's interim Prime Minister Sushila Karki has revealed that the leaders of the September's Gen Z movement exerted strong pressure on her to appoint specific individuals as ministers on board the interim government.
Four major political parties represented in the dissolved House of Representatives are preparing to form an alliance for the upcoming National Assembly election scheduled for January 25, The Kathmandu Post reported.
Nepal's Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) and the Mayor of Kathmandu Metropolitan, Balendra Shah, struck a deal on Sunday morning, setting him to be the party's parliamentary leader and its prime ministerial candidate for the national elections set to take place in March next year.
KP Sharma Oli, re-elected for a third term as CPN-UML chairman, called on party cadres to confront the interim government by force, alleging political persecution and defending police action during September protests, while his panel secured overwhelming dominance in the party's new leadersh
Former Prime Minister of Nepal, KP Sharma Oli won the third consecutive term as the party chairman through voting in the 11th general convention of the party.
Voting to elect new CPN-UML leadership was postponed to Wednesday morning due to technical glitches in electronic voting machines at the party's general convention in Kathmandu. Polling, delayed multiple times since Monday, will resume at 8 am if issues are resolved.
KP Sharma Oli and senior vice-chair Ishwar Pokharel have filed their candidacies for the post of party chair. Over 300 central positions are to be elected at the general convention currently underway in Kathmandu.
Former Nepali Prime Minister and Chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) (CPN-UML), KP Sharma Oli, called for the restoration of the dissolved parliament during the opening session of the party's General Convention.
According to sources, Friday's meeting marks the first direct engagement between the two top leaders following the serious attack on Deuba during the Gen-Z protest.