Amid the ongoing political crisis in neighboring Nepal, President Bidya Devi Bhandari on Friday night dissolved the parliament and ordered re-election within six months. The President took this decision on the recommendation of the Cabinet of the Acting Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli. It is believed that elections may be held in the country in the month of November.
Oli was recently appointed as the caretaker Prime Minister as leaders of opposition parties failed to form a coalition and form a government.
A warning was given to the President
Nepalese opposition parties, a section of the Nepali Congress, Maoist Party, Samajwadi Janata Party and dissidents from Oli’s Communist Party of Nepal, warned that if the President violated the constitution and kept Oli in office, they would sweep across the country There will be protests. The President was also being warned by the opposition parties to bring impeachment. In view of this, the President decided to dissolve the Parliament.
Oli held the post of Prime Minister for 39 months while his tenure was 5 years or 60 months. But Oli’s government came into minority after the Maoist party pulled out of the coalition and withdrew its support from the government of the anti-political Pushpakamal Dahal Prachanda .
Oli lost faith
On May 10, Prime Minister Sharma Oli lost the trust vote in Parliament. In a House of 275 MPs, Oli needed 136 votes to defend his government but could only manage 93 votes.
After this, the CPN-Maoist Central, Nepali Congress and some other parties had tried to form a new government in the country but they could not succeed in it.
Battle of supremacy in Nepal
The political crisis in Nepal began on 20 December last year when the President dissolved the parliament on the recommendation of Oli and announced to hold fresh elections in 2021 April-May. Oli’s move was strongly opposed by the Prachara faction and a battle was waged to establish supremacy in the Nepali Communist Party, the ruling party in Nepal. But Parliament was reinstated by the country’s top court in February.
The root of the quarrel between Oli and Prachanda was that the Oli faction felt that the Prachanda faction was trying to run a parallel government in the country.
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