Despite the two co-chairs making promising noises of late, the months-long wrangling within the Nepal Communist Party shows no signs of abating as Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, as if to test waters, decided to make a number of minor political appointments.

The appointments, which the Cabinet endorsed on Monday, were made without consultations within the party and with co-chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Oli’s detractors claim.

The Dahal camp has asked the prime minister to annul the appointments.

Oli’s latest “unilateral decision” has affected the workings of the six-member task force formed to come up with recommendations to resolve the longstanding dispute within the party.

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