General Secretary of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP), Bishnu Poudel on November 1 said that his party is currently facing ‘a serious existential crisis’, reports Republica. Poudel, who is one of the close confidants of NCP Chairman and Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and the Finance Minister in his Cabinet, wrote on Twitter that the “unified existence of the NCP has witnessed a serious crisis”. Poudel’s tweet has created ripples in the party’s internal dynamics as well as the country’s mainstream politics as the party holds a two-thirds majority in the federal parliament, and maintains a stronghold in six out of the seven provinces in the country.