Pushpa Kamal Dahal, co-chair of the Nepal Communist Party (NCP) on Wednesday replaced KP Sharma Oli as parliamentary leader of the ruling NCP in Parliament. A meeting of the Dahal-Nepal faction today afternoon chose Dahal as the party's leader unanimously.
The Dahal faction, which had a majority on basis of the number of Central Committee Members expelled Oli from the post of chairman while taking disciplinary action. The faction led by Oli has claimed that a working committee meeting that isn't attended by the party secretary cannot be considered legitimate.
Seven Cabinet Ministers had submitted their resignations after the proposal of Oli for the Parliament dissolution was ratified by the President. Meanwhile, both the Opposition and the factions of the ruling party had taken to the streets against the dissolution of the Parliament, deeming it unconstitutional.
Oli has been facing pressure from the rival factions of the NCP led by former Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Madhav Nepal. Apart from the political sides of things, Dahal on Tuesday had filed a petition in the Supreme Court against Nepal caretaker Oli's move to dissolve the Parliament.
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