Ex-PM's Party Walks Out Of Nepal Coalition, Says It "Has Lost Relevance"
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Chairman of Maoist Center Pushpa Kamal Dahal aka Prachanda, storming out from the coalition meeting announced the end of the coalition, a senior Nepali Congress leader confirmed.
The Maoist Center, the third party in terms of numbers in the Nepali parliament, has walked out of the ruling coalition blaming PM Sher Bahadur Deuba for backing off from promises made earlier.
Chairman of Maoist Center Pushpa Kamal Dahal aka Prachanda, storming out from the coalition meeting announced the end of the coalition, a senior Nepali Congress leader confirmed. "First you promised, now you backtracked. The coalition has lost its relevance" Ram Chandra Paudel, one of the senior leaders of Nepali Congress quoted Prachanda as saying.
Dahal, aka Prachanda, walked out of the meeting, the Congress leader said. After walking out of the meeting venue early on Sunday afternoon, Dahal then headed for Balkot to hold a meeting with opposition leader KP Sharma Oli.
As per the photos released by Oli's secretariat, Dahal was welcomed graciously and is sitting close to the opposition leader. Notably, Dahal had ended relations with Oli after the intra-party rift which also lead to the split of the Communist Party of Nepal- Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML) some 3 years ago.
