Despite being pressured and cornered, Nepal Communist Party chair KP Sharma Oli, also the prime minister, has refused to relent. Instead, according to insiders, when the other chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal pressed him for party meetings, he said in response that meetings are not required and even if any decision is taken against him, he would rather make a counter move–that he will take a “big action.”

Since its formation, there have been three factions in the Nepal Commuinist Party and they aligned so precariously that any of the two coming closer puts the third in the minority. Currently, the factions led by Dahal and senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal are together. Even then, Oli has not stopped threatening to split the party.

Oli knows very well that for him, the utility of Dahal is over now, according to a Standing Committee member close to Nepal.

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