By Our Reporter
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal is now facing a crisis to save the coalition government in just three months after he shifted his coalition partners.
While Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Rabi Lamichhane is under constant attack from the main opposition party for his alleged involvement in the cooperative frauds, the CPN-UML, the key coalition parties in his government, has also targeted the government over the budget allocation.
Even within his party (Maoist Centre), a faction led by Janardan Sharma is said to have challenged PM Dahal. It was rumoured that Dahal had been threatened of breaking the Maoist Centre.
Moreover, PM Dahal is under constant pressure from CPN-UML chairman KP Oli as Oli has the upper hand in the everyday state administration, which has irked PM Dahal.
While addressing the meeting of the House of Representatives on Thursday last week, PM Dahal realised how he was undermined by the leaders of the political parties. It is all because of his untrusting political behaviour.
PM Dahal was in the House on Thursday to furnish answers to the queries of the lawmakers and apprise the House of the President’s Europe tour and his India visit. But he was displeased when he saw senior leaders of almost all parties including KP Oli of the CPN-UML, Sher Bahadur Deuba of the NC, Madhav Kumar Nepal of the CPN (Unified Socialist) Rajendra Lingden of the RPP, Mahantha Thakur of the Loktantrik Samajwadi Party, Upendra Yadav of the Janata Samjwadi Party Nepal, Deputy Prime Ministers Narayan Kaji Shrestha and Raghubir Mahaseth and other ministers were not present in the House to listen to him. Deuba left the House before Dahal was to address it while others did not attend the meeting that day.
Expressing his displeasure, the Prime Minister said, “No matter what the tradition, practice and dignity of our House are, the day the Prime Minister speaks, all the leaders of the ruling party, the opposition, all the honourable members, ministers, all present except for emergencies, it was established in the history of Nepal. But now it is gradually waning. This certainly does not mean that we have devalued such and such a prime minister. If this process continues, we are considered to have devalued ourselves,” he said.
The scene of the House on Thursday last week reminded the PM of how weak he was and how the party leaders were undermining him. Party bosses of key parties and senior leaders did not think it necessary to attend the meeting which was to be addressed by the PM. Only Rastriya Swatantra Party chairman and Deputy Prime Minister Rabi Lamichhane was among the party chiefs to listen to the PM and the party chairman of the CPN (Maoist Centre).
The PM must have realised that he has become the weakest PM in Nepal’s history this time.
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