Nepal’s present political crisis

Introduction

A Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court of Nepal quite rightly overturned Prime Minister K.P. Oli’s decision to unilaterally dissolve Parliament in December 2020 and which was later approved by President Bidya Devi Bhandari.

Reason for dissolution of the Parliament

The Court correctly observed that there was the possibility of the formation of a new government in case Mr Oli did not enjoy the confidence of Parliament, and therefore ruled his decision unconstitutional.
The ostensible reason for Mr Oli’s decision was inner party intrigue within the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP).
- The NCP has since then fractured politically into two factions, one led by Mr Oli and the other by Pushpa Kumar Dahal and Madhav Kumar Nepal, both former Prime Ministers who belonged to the erstwhile Nepali Maoists and the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist), respectively.
- These parties had merged into the NCP in 2018.
- But this fracture is not yet formalised even though the Dahal-Nepal faction has “expelled” Mr. Oli from the party.
The Court also went on to scrap all appointments made by the government after the dissolution of Parliament on December 20, 2020.

Split of NCP

The NCP’s vertical split into two near-equal factions in Parliament should allow the formation of a new government if the Dahal-Nepal faction chooses to support an alternative — it has already pledged support to Nepali Congress (NC) leader Sher Bahadur Deuba if the NC stakes claim to form a new coalition government.

Missed opportunity by NCP

The repeated changes in government should not surprise anyone as Nepal has a history of unstable regimes and frequent changes in Singha Durbar’s occupants since the end of absolute monarchy in 1990.
But the NCP missed a historic opportunity after it came to power with a two-thirds majority in the bicameral Federal parliament and in six of the seven provinces.
- Mr. Oli could have used the mandate in 2018 to ensure a stable regime, and governance and development in a country battered by the 2015 earthquake, political instability, and now the COVID-19 threat.
- The electorate’s expectations of a stable regime, the first elected one since the promulgation of its Constitution, have been belied yet again due to the failure of the political leadership.

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