Nepal: Timeline (Terrorist Activities) -2023

The Chandra Kant Raut-led Janmat Party and the Ranjita Shrestha-led Nagarik Unmukti Party(NUP) on January 9, reached a 12-point deal for functional unity with the aim of increasing their bargaining power ahead of the Cabinet expansion, reports The Himalayan Times. The Janmat Party won six First Past-the-Post(FPTP) seats in the House of Representatives (HoR), whereas the Nagarik Unmukti Party(NUP) won three FPTP seats. Both the parties are partners in the seven-party alliance led by the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-M) and stated that they will join the government if their demands are met. Both the parties extended their support to the Pushpa Kamal Dahal aka Prachanda-led government and the Janmat Party also sent one of its lawmakers as a minister in the new Cabinet. Read less...

Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal aka Prachanda garnered a total 268 votes out of the 270 members present in the vote of confidence held in House of Representatives (HoR), the Lower House of Parliament on January 10, reports The Himalayan Times. All political parties except People's Front Nepal (PFN) and Nepal Workers and Peasants Party (NWPP) voted in support of Prime Minister Dahal. This is the highest number of votes a prime minister had ever received in vote of confidence in Parliament. Only two votes- Chitra Bahadur KC of PFN and Prem Suwal of NWPP - voted against PM Dahal. There are a total of 275 members in the HoR. Read less...

All the seven provinces in Nepal, namely Madhes, Lumbini, Karnali, Sudurpaschim, Province 1, Bagmati and Gandaki elected their respective Chief Ministers, The Kathmandu Post reports on January 12. The seven Chief Ministers are: Province 1 - Hikmat Karki, Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist-Leninist (CPN-UML); Madhes - Saroj Kumar Yadav, Janata Samajbadi Party, Nepal (JSP-N); Bagmati - Shalikram Jamkattel, Communist Party of Nepal–Maoist Centre (CPN-MC); Gandaki - Khagaraj Adhikari, CPN-UML; Lumbini - Leela Giri, CPN-UML; Karnali - Rajkumar Sharma, CPN-MC; and Sudurpaschim - Rajendra Rawal, CPN-UML. Read less...

Rabi Lamichhane, who was appointed as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs on December 25, 2022, submitted his resignation to Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal aka Prachanda on January 27, after the Supreme Court invalided his citizenship certificate and declared him a ‘non-citizen’, reports The Kathmandu Post. Following this development, Dahal took over the responsibility of the Ministry of Home Affairs. Read less...