In the first session of the upper house, held after Nepal's Prime Minister Oli dissolved the lower house on 20 November, lawmakers from the opposition parties cornered Oli, accusing him of “unconstitutional and undemocratic actions,” The Himalayan Times reported. 

The first sitting of the seventh session of the national assembly was held on Friday in Nepal. 

In the house, Oli faced heat from lawmakers, mainly belonging to Nepali Congress (NC) and Janata Samajwadi Party-Nepal (JSP-N). 

Pramila Kumari, a member of JSP-N, called the Oli’s decision a “repeat of the royal coup d’etat staged by then King Mahendra against the constitution.” Another lawmaker, Jitendra Narayan Dev of Nepali Congress, called the November 20 act “unconstitutional and undemocratic.” 

He alleged that the new constitution didn’t empower the prime minister to dissolve parliament until there is a possibility of a formation of an alternate government. 

Dinanath Sharma, an MP of the ruling NCP, called the decision to dissolve the lower house “unfortunate.” 

The months-long factional feud in the ruling Nepal Communist Party led Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli to dissolve the lower house of parliament on 20 November. Oli’s rivals, Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda and Madhav Nepal, had been demanding the resignation of Oli from the post of the prime minister. Oli was accused of mishandling the COVID crisis, corruption, and unilaterally running the party.