It is crucial for secularists in Nepal to define what they mean by secularism, and to actively defend and promote it. Some forces in Nepal, supported by the Modi government in India, want Nepal to become a “Hindu state.”
Four years ago, a question put to Sushma Swaraj suggested that both India (...)
Both Prime Minister Oli and CPN-Maoist Centre leader Prachanda need each other’s help to maintain the strength of the government and the unified party.
Kathmandu: In October 2017, Nepal’s two main communist forces— the Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxists Leninists (UML) the Communist Party (...)
A significant proportion of the population in Nepal migrates abroad every year to work Remittances contribute approximately 30% of the country’s GDP. Disgracefully, the state has neglected the issues of foreign labour migration and ignored the concerns, rights, and welfare of migrant workers and (...)
The merger has given the anti-India voice in the country a strong platform.
The long-awaited unification of Nepal’s two big communist parties, the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Leninist) and the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre), has concluded. The two parties have signed a (...)
Communists have won a land slide victory in the elections for House of Representatives of Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal held in two phases on 26th November and 7th December 2017. In the parliament of 275, the elections were held for 165 seats under the first past the post system (FPTP) (...)
The incumbent, the Nepali Congress, was wracked by corruption scandals, infighting, and the lack of any vision for the country.
You might as well imagine a large red flag fluttering from the summit of Mount Everest. That’s what the outcome of the parliamentary and provincial elections in Nepal (...)
Recent elections in Nepal may further entrench divisions that have stalled democratic progress for a decade.
Between May and September of this year, Nepal held its first local elections in twenty years . Soon, they will elect a new parliament and form new provincial councils, which were (...)
Nepal’s power tussle is overshadowing pressing national issues.
Nepal’s Prime Minister KP Oli has stepped down as a key coalition partner, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist-Center) led by Prachanda, withdrew support for the government. Nepal’s parties are bracing to form a new government, (...)
Things haven’t gone as planned since the fall of the monarchy in Nepal. The Left should embrace the struggle for a federal constitution.
Less than quarter of a century after the fall of the Soviet Union, Nepal joined the modest list of nations where a revolution from the Left had seen success. (...)
Indian participants at film festival in Kathmandu blame New Delhi’s ’unconscionable support’ of blockade for humanitarian crisis in Nepal.
A group of filmmakers participating in the Film Southasia festival in Kathmandu have called upon the Indian government to end its “unconscionable support” for (...)
Network appeals to Indian government to ensure that Nepalese people get adequate supplies as political unrest enters third month.
Right to Food Campaign (India), an informal network of individuals and organisations working to ensure the right to food in the country, on Wednesday expressed (...)
New Delhi, 4 October.
More than 100 prominent persons from different sections of the society have expressed their anguish on the interference by India in Nepal’s internal affairs. They have welcomed the promulgation of the Constitution on 20 September. Mentioning the displeasure shown by the (...)
After a decade long insurgency with thousands killed, the Nepalese Maoist movement entered a new political phase of contesting the formal political process and promising peace and development. They entered government through a strong election showing for the 2008 Constituent Assembly, charged (...)
Despite all the ideological weaknesses, the Left remains a mass force that is not seen in any other country of the region. The masses seem to have tried the Maoists and have now shifted to the UML.
I was present as an International Observer to the November 19 general elections in Nepal, (...)
Kathmandu: 16th November 2013
I am here in Kathmandu, Nepal as an election observer. National Election Observation Committee has invited some 20 international observers, and I am one of them. NEOC established in 1991, is a coalition of human rights groups, civil society organizations and (...)
Govt declares elections on Nov 19; passes election ordinance
The government has announced the Constituent Assembly elections on November 19. A marathon cabinet meeting Thursday evening fixed the election date.
The government also endorsed the draft of the election ordinance, deciding to (...)
Sixteen years after Nepal’s Maoists presented a memorandum with 40 points to the then government before launching their ‘People’s War’, a splinter radical Maoist party has decided to present a list of 70 demands to the Maoist-led government.
The Mohan Vaidya ‘Kiran’-led Communist Party of (...)
After ten years of Maoist insurgency and a coup d’etat by the king in 2005, the Nepali people took to the streets in April 2006, forcing the king to hand power back to the parliament. It was the end of the only Hindu kingdom in the world but only a new step in the country’s continuing political (...)
The leadership of Baburam Bhatterai and Prachanda in the Nepalese revolution has disintegrated. It has shown that rightist reactionary politics emerged again in Nepal’s history.
The situation has become difficult because their leadership abandoned the goal of the People’s Federal Republic.
But (...)
Ram Bahadur Thapa (aka Badal) has served as the General Secretary of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal Maoist. He is also the leader of a new force, emerging out of the UCPN(M), that is seeking to form a new party and retake a revolutionary road. The following interview with Badal was (...)
Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
Francais
RSS 2.0
Twitter
Facebook