House Dissolution PM Takes Pre-emptive Move
By The Rising Nepal
22 Dec, 2020
With internal strife in the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) touching its zenith, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli took the 'compulsive step' to dissolve the House of Representatives (HoR) and called for snap polls next year. The dissolution of the Lower House has come as a pre-emptive move to avoid the censure motion after a majority of NCP’s lawmakers tried summoning a special House session to oust him. Oli got the whiff of coming troubles, spurring him to take what many labelled as an extreme...