Nepal’s Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli earlier received the consent of his country’s president, Bidya Devi Bhandari, to dissolve the parliament and hold elections in two phases on April 30 and May 10 next year. According to media analysis, the raid has not only shocked the opposition within the Communist Party of Nepal (CPN), to which he belongs, but has also taken the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which has been behind the political manipulation in Nepal, to task. Indian media said that the Chinese ambassador to Nepal, Hou Yanqi, continues to quietly interfere in Nepal’s internal affairs.
According to a United Press report today, the surprise! Nepal’s prime minister dissolved the parliament to deal with the party’s opposition and put the Chinese Communist Party in a league of its own. Nepal’s Prime Minister Oli’s sudden dissolution of the parliament today caught the party opposition off guard and may have thwarted the Chinese Communist Party’s calculations, sources said.
The report quoted The Hindustan Times as saying that Oli’s move to dissolve the parliament has left the party’s opposition in a state of panic. Sources said the move would free up Prime Minister Oli to lead the government and split the CPN and Maoist faction led by Prachada.
Fearing that a split in the CPN would be detrimental to the Chinese Communist Party, Chinese Ambassador to Nepal Hou Yanqi met intensively with Nepal’s communist leaders in late April and early May this year, hoping they would remain united, the sources said. Nepalese observers say the CCP initially supported Oli, but changed tactics earlier this year with the intention of sacrificing him. According to the newspaper, Prime Minister Oli told Hou Yanqi that he did not need foreign intervention and that he was capable of handling internal party disputes on his own. Yet Hou Yanqi continues to quietly interfere in Nepal’s internal affairs. According to a source tracking political developments in Nepal, Hou Yanqi not only helped former Prime Minister Prachada weaken Oli, but also participated in a plot to remove him and replace him with Deputy Prime Minister Bamdev Gautam. The Indian newspaper pointed out that Prime Minister Oli’s dissolution of the National Assembly would frustrate the Chinese Communist Party’s calculations.
Oli aide Rajan Bhattarai pointed out that the prime minister’s move was due to strong resistance from the party’s opposition, which wanted him to surrender the leadership of the party, according to a report quoted by United Press. So he decided to confront them head-on and resort to the latest public opinion.
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