BHARATPUR: Senior Nepali Congress leader Ram Chandra Poudel has said CPN-UML, not the Maoist Center, was the main rival of the Nepali Congress.
He said that the Maoist party was not a competitor of NC.
Speaking at an election rally of the ruling coalition in Chitwan today, Poudel criticized UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli for being anti-democratic.
Poudel lambasted Oli for dissolving the House of Representatives.
He also said that without the alliance, Congress would not have been able to form the government.
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