Nepal’s ruling party demand PM Oli’s resignation over remarks on India

TIL Desk/World/Kathmandu/ Top leaders of Nepal’s ruling communist party, including former premier Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ on Tuesday demanded Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli’s resignation, saying his recent anti-India remarks were “neither politically correct nor diplomatically appropriate.

“As soon as the powerful Standing Committee meeting of the Nepal Communist Party commenced at the Prime Minister’s Official residence at Baluwatar, Prachanda slammed Prime Minister Oli for the remarks he made on Sunday in which he claimed that efforts were being made to oust him after his government redrew Nepal’s political map by incorporating three strategically key Indian areas.

“The Prime Minister’s remarks that India was conspiring to remove him was neither politically correct, nor diplomatically appropriate,” Prachanda said. “Such a statement by the Prime Minister may damage our relations with the neighbour,” the chairman of the NCP warned. Prime Minister Oli, 68, on Sunday claimed that there have been various kinds of activities in the “embassies and hotels” to remove him from power. He said some Nepalese leaders were also involved in the game.