By Our Reporter
Despite dramatically changing the coalition partners, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has been unable to feel safe.
The Nepali Congress with which PM Dahal severed his partnership, all of a sudden, has been exerting pressure on the government to form a parliament committee to investigate Home Minister Rabi Lamichhane’s involvement in a scam relating to the misuse of money from cooperatives, smaller parties in the coalition, especially CPN (Unified Socialist) and Janata Samajwadi Party-Nepal, have been posing a threat to the continuity of the present coalition. Both of these parties are not happy with Prime Minister Dahal and CPN-UML chairman KP Sharma Oli after their parties were denied the promised posts of ministers and chief ministers.
The CPN (Unified Socialist) nearly caused a fall to the coalition when it was denied the post of the Chief Minister in Sudurpashchim Province while the JSP-N leader and Minister for Agriculture and Land Management in the Lumbini province, Bhandarilal Ahir, resigned from the post on Saturday last week citing non-implementation of the agreement by Chief Minister Jokh Bahadur Mahara. Although PM Dahal and Oli managed to address the demand of CPN (Unified Socialist) by giving the post of Chief Minister in Sudurpashchim to Dirgha Sodari of the Madhav Kumar Nepal-led CPN (Unified Socialist), they have not yet addressed the dissatisfaction of the JSP-N. Still, the UML has not joined the Sodari-led government in Sudurpashchim, and this would further irk leader Nepal.
Interestingly, if both CPN (Unified Socialist) and JSP-N quit the government, the Dahal-led government will collapse paving the way for the NC and UML to form a new powerful government. It is said that Nepal is now not on good terms with Dahal and Oli, as he felt he was ignored while making major decisions. Moreover, Nepal is extremely unhappy with the way he was criticised by the UML chair in different forums. It is noteworthy to mention here that both Dahal and Oli reached Nepal’s home to convince him to join the present coalition of UML and Maoist Centre. But Oli and Nepal have not been on good terms immediately after the formation of the government. If the government agrees to form a parliament committee to smoothly run the Budget Session, Lamichhane will surely quit the government and if Nepal and Upendra Yadav also quit it, the government will fall. PM Dahal will probably never overcome this fear.
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